17-out-of-19EDO bright objects

Robe rehearsal 181017

Community Music project. Recorded by Jo Kennedy.

Soloist: Craig Ogden (guitar)
Musica Kirklees Youth Orchestra
Musica Kirklees Massed Guitars and Ukuleles
Calderdale Trust Guitars

Conducted by Thom Meredith (orchestra), Ginette Eady (guitars) and Hannah Roulson (ukuleles). Premiered at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 23.11.2018.

Untroubled Light - Craig Ogden & Youth Orchestra

I recorded a little improvisation I did on the piano this morning.
All sounds are created using an e-bow circuit machine built in collaboration with Jan Bernstein and Mickey van Olst, with the support of Villa Médicis. No electronics, no amplification, what you hear is simply the vibration of the piano strings.

📷Villa Médicis (light design: Eva G. Alonso)

Improvisation with my e-bow circuit machine (13 December 2019)

Night Rain (Naviarhaiku 323)

Weston and Unfit session

Standby

Disquiet Junto Project 0469: [Missing in Caption]. The Assignment: Make music that pushes the constraints of descriptive television captions.

In one scene of this old war movie, the man is saying goodbye to go to another well-founded, short and successful war, and his wife is deeply worried.

The bells call to battle, the wife struggles to find parting words, and even the worn-out VHS tape is deeply moved.

Whispering provided by these two CC0 samples:
https://freesound.org/people/geoneo0/sounds/193818/
https://freesound.org/people/LadyImperatrix/sounds/503270/ <- the heartbreaking words!

Image based on David Monies: The Farewell
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monies-Farewell.jpg

More on this 469th weekly Disquiet Junto project:
https://disquiet.com/0469/
Project discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0469-missing-in-caption/

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

[overly heartbreaking farewell music] ____ [disquiet0469]

As Manchester’s streets and skyline are warped by the ever-accelerating process of urban renewal, the city’s edgelands and green spaces are at risk of being swallowed by waves of property development. Not only does this raise questions about the ecology of the city, as carbon sinks are flattened and wildlife is displaced, but it speaks to broader trends pushing urban residents away from shared space, community and local identity.  

This project shines a light on these spaces and the activists, academics, and local people who have taken up the daunting fight against corporate interests in the city in the name of biodiversity, urban ecology and community wellbeing. As we are faced with crises of both environment and mental health, the role of public green spaces has become ever more crucial in the eyes of those who enjoy, nurture, and maintain them.  

As the tide of urban growth edges closer to the open boundaries of our shared spaces, the trees, wildlife and insects continue their gentle movement, unaware that these spaces are likely reaching the end of their rich lineage. If nothing else, this project documents these final days. 

This work weaves together recorded conversations, composed music and field recordings from a handful of Manchester’s urban wildlife havens. Interviewees include community activists Julie Ryan and Tara Parry from ‘Friends of Ryebank Fields’, award-winning alternative tour guide Hayley Flynn (Skyliner) and Dr Jenna C. Ashton (artist, curator and lecturer at The University of Manchester).

Commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2020.

Edgeland

Ekitai

Cover photo: Laura Hilliard / an assembly
Profile photo: Luar Klinghofer Bar Dov / eavesdropping
Sketch book of pieces and excerpts by artist Eleanor Cully Boehringer.

Untroubled Light - Craig Ogden & Youth Orchestra

Eleanor Cully Boehringer

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