'Constraint' is a demonstration of how we attempt to manipulate our sonic landscape by dislodging place and time through memory and association in a playful, serious or drastic way - catering for the pleasant and the unpleasant…depending on your point of view.   

Constraint

Sketch

Drone

"-y" is a piece for fixed media and instrument(s) - this particular recording uses box harmonium . It concerns internal masses; billows and bellows; bellowing and billowing; territory and action. The instrumental part follows a graphic score which includes additional adjectives ending with '-y' to openly encourage methods of performance that consider the mass of the instrument being used and how it negotiates the same space as the fixed media.

-y (with box harmonium)

Cascade is an exploration of percussive tactility and vocal expression by objects that embody them as inherent qualities rather than as visually directive characteristics - but still carry the caveat of potentiality rather than certainty. Cascade is also type of hop that served to bring these sounds into being.

Cascade

"-y" is a piece for fixed media and instrument(s). Here it is being performed by Robert Bentall on nyckelharpa. Robert’s work is also to be found on soundcloud.  "-y" concerns internal masses; billows and bellows; bellowing and billowing; territory and action. The instrumental part follows a graphic score which includes additional adjectives ending with '-y' to openly encourage methods of performance that consider the mass of the instrument being used and how it negotiates the same space as the fixed media.

Minus Y Plus Nyckelharpa

Research Assistant with the Sonic Art Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University. Harriet explores practices in field recording, experimental and electroacoustic composition. She is preoccupied by the idea of objects [that] perform[ing], and their implicit sculptural integrity.

Harriet Butler