Lost & Found, Cities and Memory and Shift
It’s been quite a busy few weeks with several projects happening.
The Lost & Found concert in Exeter Library that was part of Art Week Exeter went really well. There was a full house in the Rougemont Room and it was really well received. Emma Welton’s already finished started the programme followed by Paul Whitty’s Ancient & Modern, then Hugh Nankivell’s Fallow and finally a selection of six Music Machine pieces. We had a wide range of keyboards including three stylophones, melodica, harmonium, pipe organ, pianet, toy piano and some Casio keyboards.
The Music Machine pieces were voiced by Alison Sweatman and Jez Winship and included Music Machines 1, 4, 7, 9, 14 and 45 (written for the concert).
Jez talks about the concert and plays some of the music machines on the latest edition of his Lost Chord radio show on Phonic FM.
You can listen to it here (from around 1hr 13mins.)
Also as part of Art Week Exeter a video installation of Music Machines 1 to 20 was sited at the main venue on Paris Street, Exeter for the week. This was the video (see here on youtube) looped to run throughout the day.
I have also been working on a piece for Cities and Memory This was part of the Spring project and my chosen recording was of a sound installation at Blenheim palace.
A lot of my current work includes text so I was drawn towards this recording of a sound installation of people talking. I edited the original audio so that most of the sound between the speaking was removed. I then put that file through the software that I developed for an earlier work that chops the original audio up into smaller sections and plays those sections back at random times, volumes and positions in the stereo field. I have then processed the final recording to make it sound more like a surveillance recording through a small speaker and added a drone that runs through the piece. Bowler hat exhibit at Blenheim Palace reimagined by Simon Belshaw.
Finally, some of my music that I recorded a while ago under the name of Safe Harbour was used in an installation by Mike Abrahams as part of the exhibition Shift at the Crypt, Euston Road, London.
