Following on from the live performance at C4CC, Heather and I spent a day recording in my studio, and this is the result.
Heather’s voice is the main sound source – I’m capturing her words as she speaks, and she is responding to the sounds that result. On two tracks I’ve used bowed metal and a kitchen whisk to provide extra textures.
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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.
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 [...]
suspended pt 1 suspended (pt 1) – Autumn 2000 Download the mp3 here. (21.8mb) 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 [...]
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 [...]
