The Sound Stoke Pump Station Project has been generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council Multi Inter-Arts Office. Variable pitch block flutes blown by foot bellows were made by Barry Prophet exploring the effects of length & width on fundamental & harmonic partial tone production.

Sound Stoke Pump Station (a growing prototype structure)

Field recordings arranged to create space & time impressions.

Historically Difficult Day

Prophet's recordings from the Sound Booth Project and experiments with a sphere rolling back and forth through an acrylic cylinder are the sources for this composition exploring timings and filtered morphologies.

Temporal Intersections

The same water dripping sound source treated differently and aligned out of phase. Gentle stemware backing.

Drip Roll

A sense of returning but not really, memory & repeating in variance.

Organic Circuits

A blend of deep Cymbal tones recorded for maximum resonance with Overtone flute embellishments. Welling.

Reverberations & Breath

Fragments of melodies/phrases performed on two of my glass lithophones over a field of cymbal vibrations.

Glass Roots & Pulsing Waves

Analogue and Digital Electronic device performances layered over a bed of gongs. No actual water sounds were used in this composition.

Aquatic Illusions

After Math

Pump Station is a Sound Sculpture proto-type for the Sound Stoke Project, exploring interactive Sound Sculpture capacity employing variable pitch sound tubes, forced air sources, treatments, preparations and resonance vehicles. Recordings of these seven different sound pipes  have been archived as source for Sound Art and to explore textures produced on the computer that may be produced acoustically. All sound generators and recordings have been made by Barry Prophet.

The Sound Stoke Pump Station Project has been generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council Multi Inter-Arts. Variable pitch block flutes blown by foot bellows were made by Barry Prophet exploring the effects of length & width on fundamental & harmonic partial tone production.

Pump Station One

This is the second recording in the Sound Stoke Pump Station Project Series. Two performances of my overtone block flute processed & blended. This instrument one of the prototypes I've created for Sound Stoke Project.

The Sound Stoke Pump Station Project has been generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council Multi Inter-Arts. Variable pitch block flutes blown by foot bellows were made by Barry Prophet exploring the effects of length & width on fundamental & harmonic partial tone production.

Turbulant Air

This recording of a large variable pitch sound pipe in the Pump Station prototype is triggered by a foot bellows. Processed through granular  resynthesis.

The Sound Stoke Pump Station Project has been generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council Multi Inter-Arts. Variable pitch block flutes blown by foot bellows were made by Barry Prophet exploring the effects of length & width on fundamental & harmonic partial tone production.

Breath Extentions

Recordings of variable pitch sound tubes from Sound Stoke Pump Station Prototype processed and arranged into composition.

The Sound Stoke Pump Station Project has been generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council Multi Inter-Arts. Variable pitch block flutes blown by foot bellows were made by Barry Prophet exploring the effects of length & width on fundamental & harmonic partial tone production.

Differential

Fifth in Pump Station Series. Two tracks of same recording of large glass sphere moving back & forth in 2in X 4ft acrylic cylinder in front of centrally placed microphone,  processed with different effects and arranged out of phase. Separate recording  & processing of similar event. Forth track is foot bellows activated variable pitch block flute sample played through MIDI controller.

The Sound Stoke Pump Station Project has been generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council Multi Inter-Arts. Variable pitch block flutes blown by foot bellows were made by Barry Prophet exploring the effects of length & width on fundamental & harmonic partial tone production.

Fulcrum

Commissioned by Janice Pomer for the 10th annual Dances of Offering Benefit Concert presented by Pegasus Dance Studios Feb12, 2012 at the Betty Oliphant Theatre Toronto.

Sometimes I Think (excerpt)

Sound scape/new music piece in celebration of the month of March. Sounds sourced from a sleeping person, Rotary Mbira and Synthi "A", processed and arranged.

From the Margins

Simplicity of melody, movement and shifts.

Into The Reeds

Barry Prophet www.pomer-prophet.com
Recording artist with The Sublunar Society. "Sound As Instrument & Art" Vol. 1 & 2. "While you were sleeping.", "Elusive Moving Parts", "From the Margins", "Elastic Labours" & "Inevitable". https://www.facebook.com/thesubsociety/.
http://www.sublunarsociety.com/

This SoundCloud page is the primary SoundCloud page for all of Barry's work in Sound Art, Sound Sculpture & Music composition.

Barry Prophet is a composer, percussionist, installation artist and sculptor whose music has appeared in galleries and theatres in Canada, United States and Europe. Creating unique sounds since 1979, Barry's percussion performance sculptures and micro tonally tuned glass lithophones have been featured on numerous recordings including his CD 'Crystal Bones' ('Prophet gently blows the doors off our settled notions of timbre and tonality.’Globe and Mail, Robert Everett-Green) and with guitarist William Beauvais’ in ‘Invisible Cities’.

Barry’s solo exhibition project ‘Dwellings & Incursions’ combines sculpture,
photography, video, and sound art. The show travels to communities outside of Toronto (Rails End Gallery Haliburton & Lawrences House Centre for the Arts Sarnia), interacts with aspects of the local environment and provides workshops for school students and community members.

Barry’s chime sculptures appear at Musideum 401 Richmond Street West Main Floor. Toronto, ON M5V 3A8. Canada, in private collections throughout North America. Made of rattan, copper, brass, aluminium and bamboo, this new offering is Series #3, reflecting some of the classic smaller shapes of Series #1 and the larger pieces of the Agawa Series (#2) with the addition of dogwood branches to the palette of materials. Lyrical sculptural drawings in air for the eye and the ear.

His photographs have appeared at Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival 2012, in magazines and books including Janice Pomer’s Dance Composition, An Interrelated Arts Approach, which features a music CD containing over 30 of Barry’s original compositions.

Barry’s outdoor interactive sound sculptures include “A Gathering of Quivers’ The Tree Museum Muskoka, ‘Black Quiver’ at MacLaren Art Centre Barrie, ‘Synthecycletron’ a seasonally permanent sculpture commissioned by
New Adventures in Sound Art on Toronto Island, and ‘Sound Booth’ in “Ice
Follies 2010” W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay. 

Barry continues to perform live original music & sound art in solo and improv group concerts including solo and duet performances at the Royal Ontario Museum Friday Night Live series.

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