Over the past two years, during which Intuitive Music Aberdeen has been unable to rehearse or give concerts in person, we have been exploring methods of working remotely, devising pieces that we can play and record with the three of us in our separate locations. This brings technical challenges, not least that we hear each other with a delay, so we have created a number of pieces that exploit the rhythmic dislocation that this produces. Here is one of these pieces, called "Remote 42". We recorded it on 28 July 2021, each of us playing instruments that we found in our kitchens in Mannofield, Lower Deeside and Central Buchan.

Remote 42

"Remote 20" is another experiment in remote recording by Intuitive Music Aberdeen. It was recorded on 24 March 2021, with Mandy Macdonald playing metal tongue drum in Mannofield, Colin Edwards playing synthesiser in Lower Deeside and Haworth Hodgkinson playing bamboo chimes in Central Buchan. The three musicians were able to see and hear each other via internet links, albeit with a slight delay, and the three separate recordings were synchronised and mixed together.

Remote 20

"Relationship between wage and unemployment at regional level" by Mandy Macdonald, performed by Intuitive Music Aberdeen at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, 7 October 2017. See www.intuitivemusic.co.uk/2017/st-andrews-cathedral for details.

St Andrew's Cathedral, 7 October 2017

Relationship between wage and unemployment at regional level (Mandy Macdonald)

"Non-payment of wages" by Haworth Hodgkinson, performed by Intuitive Music Aberdeen at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, 7 October 2017. See www.intuitivemusic.co.uk/2017/st-andrews-cathedral for details.

St Andrew's Cathedral, 7 October, 2017

Non-payment of wages (Haworth Hodgkinson)

"Productivity: GDP per worker" by Colin Edwards, performed by Intuitive Music Aberdeen at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, 7 October 2017. See www.intuitivemusic.co.uk/2017/st-andrews-cathedral for details.

Productivity: GDP per worker (Colin Edwards)

Improvisation by Intuitive Music Aberdeen at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, 7 October 2017. See www.intuitivemusic.co.uk/2017/st-andrews-cathedral for details.

Improvisation

Intuitive Music Aberdeen live at Blackwell's Bookshop as part of the Solstice Shorts Festival, 21 December 2018.

See www.intuitivemusic.co.uk/2018/noon for details of the poems, stories and music performed.

Noon

"Nine Bronzes" by Haworth Hodgkinson - world premiere performance recorded at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, 3 August 2019, given by Intuitive Music Aberdeen: Haworth Hodgkinson (tenor recorder, percussion and fixed media), Mandy Macdonald (keyboard and voice), and Colin Edwards (bass guitar). Post-processing by Haworth Hodgkinson.

See www.intuitivemusic.co.uk/2019/st-andrews-cathedral for more information about the piece and the performance.

Nine Bronzes

Intuitive Music Aberdeen is an ensemble specialising in music created by the performers in response to text or graphic scores or unconventional notations. 

Read more at: www.intuitivemusic.co.uk

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