To Hao Hao & Xing Hui...

The title Sacred Voices,  was suggested by the use of and manipulation of sound materials which are considered to symbolise religion, culture, or species. The piece was composed mainly from material that had been recorded during a research trip to China in May, 2013. Much of the material was derived from a rare opportunity to record Giant Pandas in their enclosures at the Dujangyan Panda Reintroduction Centre, alongside a recording made in Xi’an of monks singing in a Buddhist Temple and carts being driven up hutongs in Beijing. These sounds (voices) are explored in a manner straddling on the very edge of real and unreal sound worlds and act as expressions or traces of places or moments in time.  

Sacred voices attempts to convey the idea of a series of momentary structures and forms experienced in space and time.  Throughout the work, sounds are presented as ‘moments’ in time and, space- the source of which is left up to the listener to imagine.  These moments are then expanded and explored throughout the piece- with each idea being mined for potential developments. The idea for this derived from my fascination with the manipulation of  field recordings, but also with sound design and spatialisation, both within the concert hall, and in a piece itself.

Along with 我們的歌 (Our Song), this work forms a collection of acousmatic works exploring sounds recorded in China in May, 2013 as part of the SCEN Music Project(www.scenmusic.info). In contrast to 我們的歌 (Our Song), where the sounds presented clearly provided a sense of place and culture, I wanted to carry out a manipulation of some of the same sound material, but without forcing any expectation of a particular place or culture onto the listener. In this piece, the manipulation of source material through both space and time was central to my train of thought. 

Sacred Voices was composed from December, 2013 to January, 2014 in the studios of De Montfort University (Leicester, England, UK). The work was commissioned by Reinhard Fuchs and Forum Liverpool with support from Scotland China Education Network, University of Aberdeen Confucius Institute and De Montfort University Confucius Institute. It was a finalist in the Concours Destellos 2014 competition.  Special thanks to John Young.

Sacred Voices (2014)- Finalist Destellos 2014

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Two taperecorders and one smartphone automatically playing "Slow" noises with no operation and accidental environment sounds.

Photo by MATSUMOTO Kazuyuki

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An excerpt from the collaborative album - Marc Baron / Mark Vernon - post-chance (Erstwhile 097) 

https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/post-chance

Recorded by Marc Baron and Mark Vernon between June 2022 and October 2023 
Mastered by Taku Unami 
Produced by Jon Abbey

Marc Baron & Mark Vernon - post-chance (excerpt) (Erstwhile Records, 2024)

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Ardoise noire de brune
Ardoise gris souris
Ardoise bleue de lune
Satin du matin
Velours de la nuit
Ardoise éblouie

extrait de « Ardoises » de Jacques Prévert

Gris souris

Louise Rossiter is an acousmatic composer based in Leicester, UK. Her research interests lie in acousmatic music composition and performance, acoustic ecology, silence, and expectation. She recently completed a PhD at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University under the supervision of John Young and Simon Emmerson, having studied previously under Pete Stollery, Robert Dow and Robert Normandeau. 
Louise’s music has been performed and broadcast around the world. In 2012 Louise was awarded first prize in the prestigious concours d’interprétation spatialisée de L’espace du Sons in Brussels and in 2015, her work Tout Autour de la Montagne was awarded a mention in the Destellos International Composition Competition. Louise’s music is released on the Xylem record label (http://www.xylemrecords.bandcamp.com).

Sacred Voices (2014)- Finalist Destellos 2014

Louise Rossiter

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