Victim Defect 2021

The original ‘The Death Of Rave’ project releases in 2006 was vast, over two-hundred flashbacks, using all of the dance floor hits from the time and stripping them of energy and spirit, turning them into shadows and ghosts. The material pre-dates the recent obsession younger musicians have for re-creating remembered rave textures and memories. This was not nostalgia, It was an inverted paean to a time when the music was about bringing people together for a shared experience. A time when only the music, advancement of sound and getting on one mattered. 

08 - XR2 Mk1 Sale Waterpark

Drifting

Troglodyte Angels Clank By (2015), for amplified ensemble
Commissioned by Radio France.
Ensemble 2e2m conducted by Pierre Roullier

Live Recording, Radio France, Festival Présence, 10 February 2016, Paris

Clara Iannotta : Troglodyte Angels Clank By (2015), for amplified ensemble

ensemble Intercontemporain 
leitung: Matthias Pinscher
UA 21.03.17, Paris, Cité de la musique
Edition Peters/Leipzig

riss 1 für ensemble

The Chain of the Spine [2017]
for violin, Paetzold contrabass recorder, cardboard, glass, and sine waves
Written for and performed by Faint Noise
Karin Hellqvist, violin [www.karinhellqvist.com]
Anna Petrini, Paetzold contrabass recorder [www.annapetrini.com]
Malin Bång, cardboard [www.malinbang.com]

In this piece, the instruments are highly individuated noise-producing bodies; autonomous and built of their own limited hoard of materials. The bodies are vertebrae, each with its own irregular, unwieldy, and irreconcilable shape. They are coextensive within a space, and form a vague suggestion of a larger archipelagic shape. Strange alignments emerge between the instruments, but these alignments occur over protracted, warped, smeared swaths of time. Each vertebrae links to another as in an inexorably tangled spine. 

More info here: www.timothy-mccormack.com/chainofthespine

Image: Jason Elewski, still from "Uns-Apparatus" (Dancers: Monica Thomas, Matthew McMunn)

The Chain of the Spine [2017]

Extract from workshop/recording session with Olivier Vivares (prepared bass clarinet) in preparation for "Third Space" - premiere at Münchener Biennale (June 2018) with Klangforum Wien, dance company "Hiatus"/Daniel Linehan and ICST Zürich.

Towards a Third Space (1)

for string quartet [2016-19]
Performed by the JACK Quartet [https://jackquartet.com]
Commissioned by the Westdeutschen Rundfunks for the JACK Quartet and the Wittener Tage fur neue Kammermusik

This is a performance of the second half of the piece. The first part was written after this performance. The JACK Quartet & I are actively looking for opportunities to premiere the finished piece. Contact me if you have the means & the interest in programming this 60-minute quartet.

More info here: https://www.timothy-mccormack.com/yourbodyisavolume

your body is a volume [excerpt]

Berlin, Boulez Saal 
Jörg Widmann, Klarinette

Atemwind für Klarinette

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers and PLAY IT LOUD :)

Outer Space (2018), for video, 4 performers, and electronics.
Based on a short film by Peter Tscherkassky (you can watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yASwqIWjaVI). 
Commissioned by Darmstadt Summer Course. Supported by Ulysses Network, co-funded by Creative Europe Programm.

Live Recording at Centralstation, Darmstadt 2018 
NIKEL Ensemble (Brian Archinal, Yaron Deutsch, Antoine Francoise, Patrick Stadler)
Sound Engineer: Alfred Reiter
Recording: Aaron Holloway-Nahum

Outer Space (2018), for video, 4 performers, and electronics [Please, use headphones!!]

https://www.aledsmith.com 
https://linktr.ee/aledsmith

Victim Defect 2021

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