Decorated Echoes was a project for Spitalfields music working with students from Phoenix school and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. The movie was made from drawings in response to sounds, our own playing and listening to live music played by Katie Heller (Violin / Viola) and Ruth Rosales (Bassoon / Contra-bassoon)
Field Notes project Movies now online.
With Bridget Carey, Melinda Maxwell, Shiori Usui, Matthew Harris, Jeremy Clay and a group of extraordinary young musicians from Wem.A series of movies made with participants in Shropshire as part of BCMG’s Field Notes project
more on the tour here http://www.bcmg.org.uk/whats-on/field-notes-tour-2014/
Drawings of journeys made into music.
A new film of the latest Fanfare project …….
A project at Spitalfields City farm for the 2011 Spitalfields Festival
June 18th @ Spitalfields City Farm (http://www.spitalfieldscityfarm.org/)
Hidden about the farm will be a series of pieces of music, composed by the Young Farmers group (and others) and built into specially made MP3 devices (electronics by the ever wonderful and multi-talented Yann Seznec of Looper and MapMixer fame)………. here are the pieces
The Sea in a Tree
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World of Goats
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Stuck in a bin ?
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Leaves
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Goose Egg
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Bamboo igloo
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Pig Chillout
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Bike
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Underground fish
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Ambient Ducks
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more information here http://www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk/index.php?pfid=17&cid=0&eid=288
The Rhubarb Rhubarb Rhubarb website is now online @ http://www.rhubarbrhubarbrhubarb.co.uk/
with recordings, recipes, film and photographs of the project
also coming in the Huddersfield Festival (21st November) a solo performance with Rhubarb sounds in the dark !
A project for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011
The Rhubarb Sheds of Yorkshire (its picked by candlelight to avoid the leaves turning green)
(from the HCMF website http://www.hcmf.co.uk/Playing-the-rhubarb-triangle)
West Yorkshire’s proud history of rhubarb-growing is providing inspiration for a new Learning and Participation project created by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb involves sound artist, musician and educator Duncan Chapman working with pupils from Overthorpe Junior, Infant and Nursery School in Thornhill, Dewsbury to create an interactive online installation using audio and visuals from the farming of local rhubarb.
Yorkshire’s famous ‘Rhubarb Triangle’ is an area between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell known for producing forced rhubarb. This technique for growing rhubarb, which is originally native to Siberia, became popular in the 19th century. The plants are grown outside for two years then transferred indoors to sheds that are heated and kept in complete darkness, prompting the sprouting of new stems with a prized tenderness and sweet flavour. In 2010 Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb was awarded European Protected Designation of Origin status, putting it in the same category as champagne, gorgonzola and Swaledale cheese.
Here are a few sound samples of the project so far
a mix of lots of popping sounds that it makes as it grows (with some pitch manipulation)
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more pops
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snapping
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Here’s a short film of it growing in the sheds (the camera is still there taking one photo every 4 hours so there will be more to come soon !)
having just written a blog entry following on from a visit to Steim in Amsterdam last month (you can read it here http://steim.org/projectblog/?p=2549 ) i remembered the list of short articles i was going to write for this website……… so here are the titles (to be added to and written about as time permits)
(lots of time staring out of little aeroplane windows ! this is Fair Isle on the way back to Inverness from Shetland)
The Royal Opera house fanfare project is now in its second year, I have been participating in the judging as well as running workshops for the winners and orchestrating the final pieces. Some great music last year
Heres a film about last year
Royal Opera House Fanfare project Documentary
Here’s a bit of Blurb from the ROH website about this years project.
Can you create a piece of music which is catchy, powerful, attention grabbing, and only 30 seconds long?
We are looking for brand new musical fanfares to be broadcast before performances at the Royal Opera House to let the audience know it is time to take their seats.
If you are aged eleven to sixteen we want you, on your own or in groups, to create your own fanfare of no more than 30 seconds to win the chance to have your music arranged, recorded and played at the Royal Opera House.
The composers of the winning fanfares will attend a workshop with a professional composer to develop and arrange their fanfare for the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Winners will also attend the recording session, and will be invited to a performance at the Royal Opera House to hear a premier broadcast of the final fanfares.
The winning pieces from last year are available here to listen
http://www.roh.org.uk/discover/education/fanfare.aspx
(these are the Sibelius files , the full orchestral versions are currently unavailable)