The 2nd section of my String Quartet in 10 Movements, 
composed 1995-96. First performed BMIC, London, 1996.
This recording, Solaris String Quartet, live at Brighton Metropole Hotel, 4/June/2000

Benjamin Mawson, String Quartet in 10 Movements, (2)

The 6th section of my String Quartet in 10 Movements, 
composed 1995-96. First performed BMIC, London, 1996.
This recording, Solaris String Quartet, live at Brighton Metropole Hotel, 4/June/2000

Benjamin Mawson, String Quartet in 10 Movements, (6)

The 7th section of my String Quartet in 10 Movements, 
composed 1995-96. First performed BMIC, London, 1996.
This recording, Solaris String Quartet, live at Brighton Metropole Hotel, 4/June/2000

Benjamin Mawson, String Quartet in 10 Movements, (7)

Piano Strings and Baritone Sax. As I rode over rutted narrow paths in woodland yesterday I imagined something that turned into this: press the "Like" button and receive a magic wish from the fairies. It's all true.    
http://benjamin-mawson.blogspot.com/2013/08/postcard-from-woods.html

Postcard From A Woodland (Sketch)

Commissioned by the John Hansard Art Gallery, 2011.

This piece was written for conceptual artist Terry Smith's retrospective show "Parallax".

Relayed via 12 speakers through four semi-partitioned spaces the audience were invited to move at will around the gallery, hearing different versions according to their vantage point.

This surround mix was created for broadcast on BASIC.FM in September 2013.

Responding to Lucier's 40 year old tape experiment with the resonant frequencies of a space, I transformed my speaking voice into a fluid background layer for dream, memory and eavesdropped lives within and outside the space where I am sitting, in a ROOM.


ROOM - a 3D investigation of space and time

This composition was developed over an extended period using three sampled pianos, processed over many stages, re-introduced to the software as finished items and continuously shaped. I've tried to give a sense of passing through different spaces in which the pianos are being played by creatures of more or less human type.

Virtual Piano Study No.1

This is the thunderstorm I recorded from my front doorstep this evening, Tuesday 22nd October 2013, passing directly overhead, down the river Itchen to the sea.

Thunderstorm on the South Coast, field recording 22 Oct 2013

A short preview of this large scale geo-located composition spread across the landscape of Gosport, Hampshire, UK. More previews at http://soundcloud.com/benjamin_mawson  . To visit and walk inside the musical landscape, anytime, free, contact Gosport Discovery Centre and ask for more details. "Written in Water: Portrait of a Town". Facebook.com/audioportraitofatown 


Written in Water: Portrait of a Town - Preview2

Short sample for recent paper at ESSA 2014:
"Mapping Fields: Annotating Landscape with Audio"
Putting a virtual performance into an un-designated space disrupts them both. Sonic snapshots of this city location were placed back into the ever changing landscape, its own shifting character an unpredictable live-improvised layer with digitally reconstructed voices seeming to sing my setting of "Take me by the Hand" by Jeffrey Wainwright, within the cathedral walls.

TMBTH St - Pauls ESSA2014

Audio Portrait of St Pauls Churchyard, from recordings made 21-22 Oct 2012 combined with acousmatic virtual choir composition "Take Me By The Hand", composed February-March 2012, first performed in acousmatic form at Turner Sims Concert Hall Foyer, March 2012. Subsequent presentations in geo-located form include Southampton University, London South Bank and St Paul's Churchyard. 
The current track is an acousmatic montage from the materials used in the St Paul's geo-located soundscape based around the original choral music.

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