Lossy Codecs is an experimental ensemble utilizing a system for directed improvisation developed by director Derek Worthington. The values of various musical parameters are controlled using a graphical interface programmed in SuperCollider. The performers improvise material based on their interpretation of this dynamic graphic score, creating unique sonic ecologies for each performance. This set featuresː

Marie Takahashi, violin
Lina Allemano, trumpet
Brad Henkel, trumpet
Matthias Müller, trombone
Edith Steyer, saxophones
Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson, contrabass clarinet
Eric Wong, guitar
Rieko Okuda, piano
Matthias Bauer, bass

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SOFT is a mixed media work for flugelhorn and backing track/video. This is a lockdown recording. Here is the audio version, the full video version can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iuuseUC8mw

SOFT features a 13-note scale and a 22 note scale which repeat at the minor septimal tritone (582.512 cents).  These are irregular scales based on a ‘softening’ of the equal scale divisions to their nearest just interval.  Also present is a scale based on 10 equal divisions of the 5:4 or just major third (i.e. steps of c.38 cents).  The competing tensions of closeness, stability and dissonance form the basis of the gently moving flugelhorn horn part which moves in and out of tonic focus.

SOFT was first performed by Stephen Altoft at EUROMicroFest 2017, Freiburg, Germany and later in that year in Salzburg, Austria at 'Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful'. It was broadcast by SWR radio in 2020.

Donald Bousted is a composer, mixed media artist, guitarist and ukulele player.  His work is often based on intimate explorations of one or two instruments, sometimes with electronics.  In the work of the last 20 years, he has collaborated with visual artists and sought to integrate elements of film, still images and live art into his oeuvre. He is perhaps best known for his microtonal music, which has been an interest since he was a student.  He has written music using quarter- and eighth-tones, just intonation, and a substantial body of work in 19-divison tuning (19 pitches per octave).
Donald is the founder and Artistic Director of Microtonal Projects and joint author, with Stephen Altoft of The Microtonal Trumpet.  He is Musical Director of EUROMicroFest and the curator of mixed media events which have included ‘Wild Dog’ and, in 2010, a Late at Tate (Microtonal) at Tate Britain.
https://donaldbousted.com

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