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SundayAfternoon – Ambient drone

by davidestevens on June 5, 2009

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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.

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suspended – part 2

by davidestevens on May 23, 2009

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I’m away on the north of England this week, running a first outing for the sensory room version of my interactive max/msp software at the Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington. Today (Saturday) was the first of two “public” days, and they’ve gone well. I’ve shot some video of people trying out the system, which I’ll edit when I get home next week. It’s pretty dark in the sensory room, so I’m not sure how well it’ll all come out. I was using an LED light from B&Q as a kind of low tech light source this morning while shooting some shots of the empty room – worked pretty well!

In the meantime, here’s the second part of suspended …

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suspended – second part

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suspended – live performance in Colourscape

May 15, 2009

suspended pt 1
suspended (pt 1)  – Autumn 2000
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After the evening Sonic Arts performance (see “the dream before-1”) where I discovered the interesting sonic possibilities of bowing metal strips, I started work on building a performance rig that would expand on the idea.
I bought metal strips of differing lengths and materials from [...]

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Dark soundscape

April 7, 2009

First piece  – 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 tissue paper and [...]

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The Tube

March 30, 2009

Tube Performance – saxophone, delay lines, and Korg Kaospad
Imagine a clear plastic tube, fifty foot long and about ten feet high. There are four loudspeakers arranged around the tube – one each at the top and bottom ends of the tube, and the other two along the sides. People are sitting inside the tube, listening [...]

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