STATION #1

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Visual score for “Station #1”

2:38 min, digital audio file (.mp3)
September 2017
contains sample of a field study recorded in June 2017

Digitally manipulated musical performance taken from recording of radio station, utilising phasing across the stereo channels to simulate space. The piece can be looped in order to function in the context of a performance piece making use of audio samples.

HOWLIN’

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Visual score for “Howlin’”

0:59 min, digital audio file (.mp3)
September 2017
contains sample of a field study recorded in September 2017

Digitally manipulated music performance taken from recording of a street busker, using several digital delays to multiply the voice. The delay signals are panned across the stereo channels to simulate space.

MACHINERY/GUITAR

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Visual score for “Machinery/Guitar”

3:17 min, digital audio file (.mp3)
October 2017
contains sample of a field study recorded in October 2017

Digitally manipulated musical performance taken from recording of street busker, utilising heavy distortion and phase shifting achieved through double tracking the audio and applying digital speed adjustment, causing the second track to gradually fall out of time with the first. The piece can be looped in order to function in the context of a performance piece making use of audio samples.

“SOUND MAP” Visual Scores

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Section of improvisational sound map I, 3234x2272px

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Section of improvisational sound map II, 3234x2272px

Approx. 11.5×20.5 cm x2, fineliner pen drawings on antique map
October 2017

Two antique grid maps were altered with spontaneous marks based on interpretations of a free-improvised live music performance, in order to create a “score” of the performances.

 

SUBWAYS

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Visual score for “Subways”

11:44 min, digital audio file (.mp3)
November 2017
contains sample of a field study recorded in October 2017

Audio piece based around a loop of a 30-second sample of a recording of a subway busker. One stereo channel slowly degrades in quality each cycle by losing 8kbps of bitrate fidelity, whilst the other slowly gains fidelity, achieved by exploiting the digital compression of mp3. The piece can be looped in order to function in the context of a performance piece making use of audio samples.

RESTAURANT PIECE

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Visual score for “Restaurant Piece”

20:02 min, digital audio file (.mp3)
November 2017
contains samples of 2 field studies, c. 2010 & 2016

This piece was constructed by combining looped samples from two separate field recordings, from performers in a cafe and a pub respectively. The recordings had several effects applied to them digitally before being combined with one in each stereo channel for spacial separation. This piece was later used as an element of a performance piece.