Name: Sleeping Stones by Horse Gas
Duration: 5 min 20 s
Description: Started as a jam with the iOS Fugue Machine app, and then ended up as something else entirely...

reminds me a bit of robert wyatt, really great

unbelievably theatrical, dramatic and interesting music! :)

All things appear
Heidi M. McCarthy can be found at, https://soundcloud.com/ilona211

Viewing Ghost Viewing

Viewing Ghost Viewing. numbers in the dream / Heidi M. McCarthy

All Nature
Orieliel Watcher can be found at, https://soundcloud.com/orieliel-watcher

Ghost Star Earth

Ghost Star Earth.  Orieliel Watcher, numbers in the dream

Unknowing, Slow Motion Suicided

Beating wing, through the ash
Trying hard, like it wont last

Gilded Bride

Started as a jam with the iOS Fugue Machine app, and then ended up as something else entirely...

Sleeping Stones

Movement 2 from my 2020 exhibition 'La morte mi troverà vivo' (death will find me alive). The whole piece can be found on bandcamp  or my website including catalogue essays and photos/video 
https://nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/la-morte-mi-trover-vivo  
https://www.matward.net/la-morte-mi-trover-vivo
Childhood Garden is built from a field recording taken at the childhood home of Luigi Russolo in Portogruaro and was one of three pieces i took to and played at Luigi Russolo's grave as a form of 'calling ' to his spirit.

Childhood Garden-Portogruaro (La morte mi troverà vivo -mov.2)

2nd Piece in a small suite based on field recordings taken in the 19th Arrondissement on Paris in early 2020. This work uses manipulated field recordings taken in and around the Cité De La Musique  a beautiful building both inside and out featuring a museum of instruments, archives and state of the art concert halls.

Cité De La Musique (Paris - 19th Arrondissement #2 )

Part 3 of a small suite using field recordings captured in the 19th arrondissement of Paris in January 2020... also Part 1 of a new project that looks at the harmonic possibilities of human speech.. i have always been fascinated by the rhythm of conversation and this new project developed from manipulating spoken word pieces. The original text was provided by Cy Bianne who some of you may know as Société Cantine on Soundcloud/Bandcamp. It was written by Pierre Charras about the inspiration Francis Bacon found for his paintings on a beach one day. The recording has been heavily manipulated to create melodies, harmonies and textures from the raw words. Eventually I am going to attempt to build a choir with spoken word pieces in as many languages as i can find (i may approach some of you for reading!). This track is pretty rough, just a start i guess. also if you want to hear some really imaginative music i highly recommend you check out Cy's page or bandcamp. He writes amazing stuff   https://societecantine.bandcamp.com                                                                          https://soundcloud.com/societecantine

La Plage Était Un Vaste Village Dont Il Était L'idiot (Paris 19th Arrondissement part 3)

Been writing a lot of slooooooow music lately, so this was a circuit breaker. And an excuse to check out the latest free notation software options as i cant really justify paying for  Finale or Sibelius as I dont write much stuff like this these days. This software is called musescore - was one of the better ones i played with; easy to navigate but of course with 'free' comes some pretty rough sampled instruments. Okay back to the slow stuff and thankfully the restart of rehearsing in person now the lockdowns are easing : )

Imaginary Duet #2 for Piano and Percussion

After what seems a life time I have found my way back to the kitchen ! sorry for everyone I invited around to eat... its been more than a year between courses!  so finally 'dinner' is served   - another course in the food themed series built from The Broken Orchestra sample collection as curated by Found Sound Nation. They have recently released an album showcasing some incredible music written using this sample collection check it out here.... https://fsnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/suites-for-a-broken-orchestra
More info.....

In 2018 i was part of a competition to remix broken orchestral instruments... needless to say i didnt win but it top fun.... More info below from the found sound nation website. Also i now have the library of all the samples if any one wants them let me know and I will send them - got everything from micro second one pitch solo instruments through to ensembles lasting for half a minute also ........

Found Sound Nation, in collaboration with Symphony for a Broken Orchestra, has meticulously recorded the sounds of over 800 of broken instruments in an effort to inspire the public to ‘adopt’ these instruments and raise funds to repair and return them to public schools throughout Philadelphia. For these recording sessions, we invited great musicians from around Philadelphia to improvise on damaged horns, flattened fiddles, splintered double bases, padless saxophones, leaky clarinets, and busted-up snares and created a sample library of hundreds of ‘wounded’ but magnificently unique instruments

Dinner (is finally served)

Well we are a little rusty... been the longest time since Dani and I simply did some improvisation.. so here is a rough few minutes recorded even rougher the other night after a session at the wonderful Hobart artspace 'Proofspace' where we have been fortunate to use as we write a new score for the beautiful and poignant silent movie " The Smiling Madame Beudet"... With luck we will get to perform the movie at sometime in the future! Felt great just to make some shit up for the first time in ages : )

Dani Kirby/Mat Ward - Proofspace jam#1

Mid Wales based experimentalist noise makers.

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