live laptop performance+live coding+SuperCollider.
Recorded on November 28th 2013, at the University of Birmingham.

FIRE Demo

FIRE: Norah Lorway, Edie Pearce, Brenna Cantwell. Formed in 2013, FIRE (all-Female Interface Research Ensemble) is a laptop ensemble designed specifically as a research group for exploratory cognitive, stylistic, and interface research, through performance. All three performers are postgraduate students at the University of Birmingham, studying electroacoustic/computer music, and are active SuperCollider programmers, as well as members of BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre).                                                                                 
The members of FIRE, though coming from different backgrounds, have a keen interest in ‘liveness’ in computer music performance as it functions in laptop improvisation. In addition to performing “ears-only,” (un-networked), as well as networked improvisations, FIRE explores the use of body movement in performance, integrating instrumental performers and dance music into their repertoire, and experimenting with gestural controllers and touchscreen interfaces. 


FIREnsemble