A piece for Aldeburgh beach for a large ensemble of brass players conducted by Semaphore Flags
the signals
Materials
(images © Aldeburgh Music)
a film of some of the performance
festival
Semaphore Brass
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011Sonic Treasure Hunt
Thursday, June 16th, 2011A 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
Rhubarb Rhubarb Rhubarb (website now online)
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011The 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 !)
Love Music Festival
Monday, October 11th, 2010Touring round Scotland and featuring an extraordinary line up of performers.
I’m curating the Electric Loops days as well as running workshops in schools and with teachers.
more here (including tracks on the online jukebox and blogs as well as free software )
Huun Huur Tu : One of the featured artists in Electric Loops
The Love Music Looper (created by Yann Seznec) available for free download from the website
Online materials include ideas for working with loops and spectra
Spectral tools
and loops
Sound from workshop sessions on Lewis , September 2010
Stornaway Chanter Remix
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Spitalfields Festival Walks project
Monday, May 31st, 2010SPITALFIELDS
SPEAKS
– Free, downloadable sonic guides
It’s time to throw out the guide book and open your ears as we invite you to take a guided tour of the East End, through the experiences and imaginations of local people with compelling stories to share.
Working with artists Marcia Farquhar and Duncan Chapman, five very different local residents have created sonic guides, providing unique perspectives into the area, revealing the connections and locations that matter to them. Simply explore each individual’s piece online, print out the map and download the mp3s, then come to the area and listen through your headphones to the sounds of the East End, as heard by the people who live here.
Download the PDF maps and audio here
spitalfieldsfestivaladmin.new.mindunit.co.uk/images/resource/Spitalfi.pdf
Madge
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Sharif
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Miss Beryl
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Jez Self
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Mike Myers
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Buxton Festival 2009
Thursday, June 18th, 2009The start of a project to make instruments to play a fanfare from the balcony of the Opera house during the festival.
Here are a couple of sounds from the first workshop with a group from Buxton Community school
(photos to follow)
On the last day of June …………….. playing a set of mixed instruments and starting to think about Fanfares
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Squonky tube improvisation (from 1st session)
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with a bit of fiddling about on the computer after the session
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At the end of the project we will play the music here to the audience who have turned up for an evening at the opera !
