3:04 min, digital audio file (.mp3)
January 2019
“A storm is blowing from Paradise…”
Sample based audio collage moving through four different musical environments in stages, based around Paul Klee’s 1920 painting “Angelus Novus”.
Tag: sound pieces
HOTEL-KLAVIER
3:17 min, digital sound file (.mp3) & sound installation
May 2019
Exhibited 1-9 June 2019
“Below us, for the first time, we can see the jungle… and then we descended through the clouds.”
“Hotel-Klavier” explores an imaginary, simulated space after the end, a vestige of human habitation coming into view from an overgrown thicket of wilderness. As the piece unfolds, we are invited to see the collapse of the structure all around us as civilisation returns to nature.
Exhibited as part of the Level 6 Degree show at Kingston University, 1-9 June 2019.
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’
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
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.
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
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.
SOUND AND VISION: PORTFOLIO 2017-2019 