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This submission consists of two projects emanating from the musical activities of Neil Cantwell | dissolvingPath.

Firstly, Beat 11 is classical music used in ballet classes at the Beacon Arts School in Brighton, remixed with the inspiration of DJ Krush’s album Jaku, applying electronic hip-hop production to music of a native intangible cultural heritage.

The waltz in this submission uses a theme composed by Johann Strauss II. Rhythmically, a drastic slowing of tempo enables an equilibrium to be found between the dancing impulses of 3 time and 4 time. Above all this waltz seeks to represent the remarkable precision and control exercised in the learning of ballet rudiments, trying to capture in sound and silence the expression that comes with exquisite restraint as muscles are stretched just that little bit more.

Accordingly, creative restraints were in place in the course of programming the track using Reason software on an old iMac literally within the confines of a bedroom cupboard. Having established this prototype, the next step for Beat 11 is to recruit drum kit and electric bass musicians to play alongside this waltz and two other remixed rhythms (Adage and Rond de Jambe) in a live setting, for studio recording and possible concert performance. Great potential exists to take the music created by the project back to ballet dancers to enable the creation of a music video or stage show, either with budding students from the Beacon Arts, or innovative centres of dance, such as the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center, with its invention of the genre of hiplet (hip-hop ballet).

Secondly, the accompanying tracks by shinekosei demonstrate developments that have led to the Beat 11 project, whereby a classical training in piano and percussion met in collaboration with electronic Japanese hip-hop. Again using compositions made in Reason, which were then recorded with improvised live arrangements, these nascent experiments in alt-classical production set a good deal of the sonic template that is now being used for the different thematic context of Beat 11.     

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Neil Cantwell has studied philosophy and music. He is the co-founder of Japan Sound Portrait with BBC Radio 3’s Nick Luscombe; the co-director and co-producer of the film KanZeOn with cinema iloobia; and the founder of Praise Function Recordings, releasing music by TA2MI. 

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Neil’s partner in shinekosei is Koichi Yuasa – a music producer, tea farmer and former mechanic based in the town of Ureshino, Saga prefecture, Japan.



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