For Radio 1Xtra Story 'Speak Britannia' - a documentary all about our accents and dialects and the way we speak - Toddla T challenged Sheffield Hip Hop collective Clubs & Spades to create a Sheffield version of Smiley Culture's 'Cockney Translation'.

Clubs&Spades X Toddla T - Steel City Translation

Strangers On A Train

Is it a cloud

This track was recorded with the free improvisation ensemble 'Imp' with a single stereo-pair of microphones in Powis Hall, Bangor University, in 2002.

Stelios Giannolakis: Electric Guitar + VCS3 synth

Huw McGregor: Prepared Piano + Cello

Rob Mackay: Flute + Prepared Piano

2 Embrace

The Long Ride

Scarborough 6/6/12. Headphones recommended. 

Thunder and rain (binaural)

In many of my compositions I have tried to eplore the way we perceive sounds. Using this to effectively transform one recognisable sound to another, or travel from a ‘real’ space to an imaginary one. So far, this has been done in pieces which are purely for fixed medium alone. In 'Flute Melt', however, I have endeavored to extend the work I have done into a piece which includes a live flute performance. I have tried to make the flute and the tape ‘melt’ into one another. Sometimes a sound made on the flute will transform into a sound on the tape. At other moments the flute will imitate sounds in the tape part. The listener should be taken from the real space of the concert hall into a realm where anything can happen, and back again.

'Flute Melt' was composed in the electroacoustic music studios at Bangor University between 1999 and 2000. 


Flute Melt

Christopher Hoddinott

Chris is currently studying a Masters in Sonic Art at Hull University Scarborough Campus under Joseph Anderson, Tim Howle and Rob Mackay. He has produced a number of works which have been included in various events including Sonic Arts Expo in 2008. 

Chris Studied a BA in Creative Music Technology at Hull University before starting his masters. His interest in electroacoustic music is developing the conceptual abstracts to produce the music. In particular to relation to the ideas of Joseph Beuys, George Maciunas and the Fluxus movement.

The variety works have included sound installations, ambisonic, 5.1 and stereo tape recordings. Chris has written music for the play Mother written by Chris Perkins, and has hosted his own commercial radio show.

Side projects have included avant-garde bands called Ewarwoowoo, Hodmeister, as well as various solo projects under different pseudonyms.

Is it a cloud

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