Tag: Live electronics
CD & Downloads
I have been far to slow in updating things and promise to do so properly soon.
BUT in the meantime here are some recent releases from projects with Supriya Nagarajan
LULLABY LIVE @ CCA
https://manasamitra1.bandcamp.com/track/lullaby-sonic-cradle-2022
Dusk Notes : Live in Leeds
https://manasamitra1.bandcamp.com/track/dusk-notes-live-at-howard-assembly-room
Koto Twilight (with Sumie Kent)
https://manasamitra1.bandcamp.com/track/koto-twilight
More soon ……. image from Lullaby: Sonic-Cradle live @ WOMAD festival July 2022
Chilled Tea
Cove
A new album (on cassette/download) to be released on the Linear Obsessional label this summer.
Cove is a series of four pieces created during a residency at Cove Park in February 2019 as part of an ongoing project with Articulate Cultural Trust.
Sonification of landscape, field recordings and live improvisation with the elements.
Cover artwork from time-lapse movie looking out from the converted shipping container where I was living.
Sneak preview:Calm pond bubbling stream excerpt
Linear Obsessional: Linear Obsessional
Cove Park: http://covepark.org
Articulate: https://www.articulatehub.com/articulate-cultural-trust
Piddocks : released on Linear Obsessional Recordings
Free download and booklet.
Part of a series of pieces exploring field recordings with generated materials and other incidental sounds.
Pholadidae, known as piddocks or angelwings, are a family of bivalve molluscs similar to a clam.Pidocks are unique in that each side of their shells is divided into 2 or 3 separate sections. Furthermore, one of the piddock’s shells has a set of ridges or “teeth”, which they use to grind away at clay or soft rock and create tubular burrows. The shape of these burrows is due to the rotating motion of the piddock as it grinds the rock to make its home. The piddock stays in the burrow it digs for the entirety of its eight-year lifespan, with only its siphon exposed to take in water that it filters for food. When the piddock dies and leaves an empty tubular burrow, other marine life such as sea anemone, crabs and other molluscs may use the burrow.
Download Tracks Now Online
An experiment in seeing whether the dronespace pieces i’ve been making have a wider audience.
You can download tracks from my new Bandcamp site here
https://dronespace.bandcamp.com/track/114
Dronespace update
Some new dronespace pieces heading towards a download album
DroneSpace
Some new audiomulch improvisations and a soundcloud stream.
Decorated Echoes @ Spitalfields Summer Festival
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)
……..Of Wind and Breath
……..Of Wind and Breath was a concert of new music in the 2013 Notting Hill May Festival
Two pieces from the concert
Speaking Breath ……..
Mike McInerney : Shakuhachi
Duncan Chapman : Electronics
Speaking breath is the 4th in a cycle of pieces that explores the sound of the Shakuhachi in a variety of environments. The previous pieces have included a performance in a 360º cinema (Rising Breath) an old power station in Budapest with live interactive video (Empty Breath) and a piece in a church in Leeds with a bass organ pipe and live electronic manipulation of the sound (Turning Breath). In Speaking Breath the Shakuhachi sound is integrated with a collection of organ sounds focusing particularly on the moment when the pipes “speak” and elongating this to reveal previously unheard detail.
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Sounds from an unfinished organ : Laptop ensemble
All the sounds are created from samples of the organ in the church which was in a state of reconstruction after a major restoration project. The ensemble was made up of a group associated with the church and other musicians in the concert who surrounded the audience.
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Thanks to Caryl Mann from the Organ Restoration project at St Johns
The Sea Becomes a Chord
The sound of the sea recorded at Mog’s Eye on the Lincolnshire Coast
becomes a chord …………….
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Growing in the dark @ HCMF 24/11/11
Growing in the dark
As part of this years Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
a late night performance of Rhubarb Sounds
Thursday 24 November
Creative Arts Building Atrium, 10PM
Free event
more information here http://www.hcmf.co.uk/event/show/246
photo © Alex Beldea
Here is a short version of the performance
Dark Januaries
Isabel and I scan the floor at Bretton Hall for interesting creaking sounds …………
Over the last 15 years Isabel Jones and Duncan Chapman have been collaborating with each other ,they have co-composed numerous films, recordings, installations and performances including their album ‘Corrosion’, the music for Salamanda Tandems performances and their eight year personal documentary project ‘8 Dark Januaries’
Since 1994 they have met every January to start the year with some sonic research that involves the creation of an original piece of music. This process has been partly one of self documentation as well as a way of reviewing the last 12 months in sound.
The works produced have therefore become a kind of snapshot of our individual and collective work and travels from the preceding year. By “documentising” ourselves we have sought to create an oasis of reflective practice that both looks back and forwards. On many occasions we have discovered connections in our sound palettes and worked these into the pieces.
Sonic materials have included field recordings from all over the world as well as voice, live acoustic instruments and electroacoustic processing.
January 2004
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January 2005
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January 2006
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January 2007
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January 2008
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January 2009
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January 2010
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January 2011
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Horn and Rabab
12 Years ago Isabel Jones and I made a recording of her playing a one string Rabab complete with creaking tuning pegs and me playing the horn through a harmoniser. Some of this became another piece but yesterday Isabel emailed me a version of the original recording for us to think about making something out of in the future. My breath control isn’t this good any more BUT it the horn is now out of the case and we are contemplating a whole new world of long notes and mysterious textures
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From the River To the Sea at the Royal Opera House
On Monday 30th May Isabel Jones and myself will be performing a 4 hour installation performance. This forms part of the ROH Sounding Out For Families week of creative activities (more information on the Opera House Website (http://www.roh.org.uk/)
This short track was made today (Thursday 26th) as part of our preparations for Mondays event. It features field recordings we have recorded on our travels around the world , water sounds from Ireland, France, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, Derbyshire as well as live voice , synthesised layers and a very stretched version of a well know piece of Tchaikovsky Ballet music (a prize for spotting what it is).
From the River to the Sea (Duncan Chapman / Isabel Jones 26/5/2011)
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BCMG Electro Sequenza
(from BCMG website http://www.bcmg.org.uk/default.php?id=412)
Sequenza is a secondary schools’ project inspired by Berio’s virtuosic solo pieces for various instruments. Over a series of workshops a GCSE, AS or A Level class works with a composer to create a solo piece for one of BCMG’s players. These pieces are then recorded on CD at CBSO Centre. This project has produced work of an exceptionally high standard through allowing young people to; immediately hear even their initial ideas performed brilliantly; discuss previously unknown sound possibilities with the musicians; and find ways to develop and refine ideas through guidance from the composers. The project sometimes includes the added dimension of live electronics
This 2011 project was with Hamstead Hall school with Kyle Horch (alto sax) and live electronics
all electronic processing done with Audiomulch
The Pieces
The Secret Soul
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The Conquest
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The Sadness of Happiness
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Feel Free
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A Day Out
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The Hunt
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War of the Tribes
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Swiggles
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Hide and Seek
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Life on a Ship
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Dark Romance
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Jorell
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The Lost World
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Lost Love
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Path
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Interference
Staying in a hotel in Birmingham this week doing a project with the BCMG, there was a huge plasma screen TV in the room , but all the channels were different types of video interference.
So here’s a short film of this with a soundtrack made by improvising with an Audiomulch patch (the same one that I used on the current sound of the week)
Love Music Festival
Touring 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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London Sinfonietta Sonic Explorations Festival
I’m making a series of pieces for this festival at Kings Place , London. My event is on Saturday October 3rd @ 4.30 and features a number of new works made in collaboration with a group of young people and three musicians from the ensemble. We will also be playing a piece which is entirely generated by imgage to sound software (using this http://hem.passagen.se/rasmuse/Coagula.htm) on 8 computers linked to 8 loudspeakers. I’m also writing an acoustic version for Bassoon (Adam Mackenzie), Trumpet (Bruce Nockles) and Viola (Bridget Carey) so that the same sequence of sound events happen in both pieces.
Here’s the score
more information on the festival can be found here
http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/event/kx-collective-sound-stations
and
http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/project/sonic-explorations
Here is a photo of the rehersal
the piece was called
o1: compose <play>
Mikrophonie project @ RFH 2008
Working with Year 5 pupils from Heathbrook Primary School in Lambeth, London and with students from the Royal
Academy of Music to create new music inspired by Stockhausen’s
Mikrophonie I .
Mikrophonie I is for Tam Tam and Live electronics, the notation of the piece specifies precisely how the micophones should be moved, what materials sould be used to play the Tam Tam and how the electronics should interact. In our project we created scores for these kind of things concentrating on music gestures between the live instruments, microphonist and electronics.
Some of the scores
Here is a film of the pieces
more information on the festival is here
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/assets/press/releases/KLANG_PR1.pdf
Empty Breath
Empty Breath : An improvised performance @ Making New Waves festival at Trafo , Budapest in 2005,
Mike McInerney : Shakuhachi
Duncan Chapman: Live electronics
Stewart Collinson:Live image manipulation