Lonely Burrito

Night Toffee

A piece that seeks to explore relations between noise and pitch.

Selected to be played at Ai Maako 2016 in Santiago, Chile.

Granite

Autodeictic

Weird Bight - Graanstruum

This music accompanied the play 'Jackdaws', which was written by Tom Parrish and produced at the University of Sheffield. The play brings the gods of Ancient Greece into contact with modern day disasters and issues.
It was a pleasure working with everyone involved, and a fantastic opportunity to create music as part of a larger artistic project.

Closure

Chaos #1

Sisters

Murder

Opening

'Translation' is the result of a collaboration between Ben Allen and myself. 

Words & Voice - Ben Allen

Ben Allen & Ross Davidson - Translation

Winner of the student category Prize of composition KLANG! 2017.

Veins Coalesce

Scene 5

Composed by myself and Tom Parrish, with Tom on guitar.

Tomorrow Morning - Ross Davidson & Tom Parrish

Scene 4

Composed by myself and Tom Parrish, with Tom on guitar.

Fixing Things - Ross Davidson & Tom Parrish

Scene 3 

Composed by myself and Tom Parrish, with Tom on guitar.

Disrupted - Ross Davidson & Tom Parrish

Scene 2

Composed by myself and Tom Parrish, with Tom on guitar.

Wrapped in Plastic - Ross Davidson & Tom Parrish

Scene 1

Composed by myself and Tom Parrish, with Tom on guitar.

Cold Hands - Ross Davidson & Tom Parrish

Stumbled upon a nice patch and decided to press record. This was done in one take, with a bit of eq/compression etc applied afterwards. 
Main audio sources were Bastl Grandpa (drums), Mutable Instruments Clouds & Rings, 4ms SMR, NLC Multiband Distortion. Then a few other things for modulation/filtering and the suchlike...

Modular Jam #01

The ways in which sonic energy can be built up and released in a composition are explored through the use of a Fidget Spinner.

Rotor

Ventosmia uses field recordings to highlight the musical nature of sounds we hear in our everyday listening.

Ventosmia

Another one-take recording of me messing around on some modular stuff. I decided to try and do something a bit more melodic for a change, the melody & reverb is all coming from Mutable Instruments Rings, it's not a particularly innovative use of the module but damn it just sounds so pretty

Modular Jam #02

First thing to come out of my modular that already kind of sounds like a complete track... Pretty happy with this, I didn't layer up different takes so you're hearing the output of a single patch I did :) 
Put a delay panned hard right on in cubase to try and balance the stereo field, one problem I keep running into with doing modular stuff in stereo is that often the lead vco/voice will end up only being in the left speaker which sounds a bit weird, think I've done alright in making it a more even spread though.

Hot John

Was feeling super christmassy so i made a cheesy festive track out of some decorations around my flat

Figgy Pudding

Jammy

My remix of Samuel D's track 'Solipsis', composed in 2019. Listen to the original here: https://samuel-d.bandcamp.com/ 

Huge thanks to Sam for sending this my way, I had an immense amount of fun making this. All the sounds you can hear are derived from Sam's vocals, which I processed using various distortions, re-pitching, stretching, and tape acceleration.

Solipsis (Ross Davidson Remix)

Solipsis - Samuel D (Ross Davidson Remix)

This piece was made as part of a commission that saw a number of University of Sheffield Sound Studios (USSS) composers record sounds of still-operating machinery in Kelham Island Museum. We then used these recordings to create individual pieces which responded to the themes brought up by Kelham Island. 

In Industry, I considered the way in which past industries have been effaced or remembered through the process of gentrification, making way for new industries.

Industry (2019)

Slightly more serious sounds to follow in near future

What happens when I'm bored on a Sunday evening

Ross Davidson is an award-winning composer of electroacoustic music who completed an MA in composition at the University of Sheffield in 2017. His music focuses on the creation of immersive sound-worlds, with an emphasis on forming rich relationships between the different spectro/spatio-morphologies contained within and expressed by these sonic environments. In addition to his electroacoustic works, he has also previously composed for film, theatre and contemporary dance.

His music has been performed internationally at festivals such as Ciclo de Música Electroacústica (Valdivia), Sound Junction (Sheffield), Ai Maako (Santiago), and The Engine Room International Sound Art Exhibition (London). This year he undertook La Wayaka Current’s artist residency in Guna Yala, Panama, where he made extensive field recordings of the beautiful tropical rainforest soundscapes. In 2017 his piece Veins Coalesce was awarded the student category prize in Klang!.
He has diffused his works as part of Sheffield’s biannual Sound Junction concert series, as well as at Ai Maako (Santiago 2016). His piece Veins Coalesce won the student category award in Klang! 2017, and was also selected to be played as part of The Engine Room International Sound Art Exhibition (London 2017). He also enjoys multi-media projects, having composed music for the theatre productions Jackdaws (Sheffield, 2016) and the adaptation of Breathing Corpses (Sheffield, 2017). He is a member of the duo AARD, an improvised live-coding and modular synth group, along with Alejandro Albornoz.

Ross Euan Davidson

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