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SundayAfternoon – Ambient drone

June 5, 2009

here’s a link I’ve finally started rehearsing with the new software I created recently, as I have a performance in Rotherham with Colourscape in a few weeks time. Here’s the piece from yesterday. Share and Enjoy:

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Flutes and Sensor Controlled Looping Software

May 6, 2009

Fast Tube by Casper Something a little different … The software that I use for the Special Needs project that I run for Eyemusic/Colourscape was originally created for Simon Desorgher, the flautist who is one of the people who run eyemusic (the other is Lawrence Casserley). Simon had for years wanted some kind of a [...]

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falling embers – bass, flugel, electronics

April 23, 2009

falling embers falling embers (41.52) 23/04/09 Steve Lawson and I finally managed to get together today. After some initial problems with Steve’s looper, we got started, and produced this 45 minute improvisation. I’m very happy with the way it worked out – apart from a few small cuts to tidy things up, this is exactly [...]

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Dark soundscape

April 7, 2009

First pieceĀ  – dark 1 So here’s a first piece created with the new performance software. I was playing around with different sound sources today – flugel, bowed flugel, extra contact mics, and then I added one of these … What the heck are they called? As you can see, I dampened the beaters with [...]

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Work in progress – flugel horn with sensors

April 4, 2009

At the moment I’m developing a system called “sunday morning”, for which the original inspiration is the sound of church bells chiming in the distance, a sound that I grew up with. The piece is already mutating away from the original idea, although the actual processes (extreme time-stretching) remain the same. Over the last week [...]

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