Lute Variation 1

Music for the 2013 Frequency Digital Arts Festival - Lincoln, UK. http://frequency.org.uk 
Watch Graham Cooper's trailer video here: https://vimeo.com/73930214

Frequency Festival 2013

O Death, Rock Me Asleep

Recording at Whisby Nature Reserve near Lincoln (17 May 2014) to recreate the BBC’s historic first outside broadcast, featuring the cellist Beatrice Harrison in her Oxted garden in May 1924.
Violinist - Janet Welsh.
Highlights include - the nightingale, dog walker calling, dog jumping into ditch, Janet tuning up, train passing by, colony of black headed gulls, Janet playing Londonderry Air, jumbo jet flying overhead.
More info here > http://audioproduction.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2014/05/18/nightingale-violin-duet-90-years-since-1st-outside-broadcast/ 

Janet & The Nightingale

MA project track. Creative response to Ambrose Field session. Thanks to Phil, Tom, Ben and Dan.

Ave Verum Corpus (Manipulated) Mix 2

The Drill

U∂+

Zanya

Geom is a new sound wall commission by David McSherry for the exhibition, The Russell Chantry: Lothar Götz/ Duncan Grant. In this piece, David uses sound to respond to the work of both Duncan Grant and Lothar Götz, creating an entirely new experience.
Sacred music is at the centre of this composition. David chose John Taverner's 'The Lamb' as a starting point, in response to the imagery of the Good Shepherd in Duncan’s mural. Religious music also plays an important role in our experience of the original Russell Chantry mural, the sound of choirs and hymns permeate into the chapel space from the main cathedral. This work brings our attention to something we do not often consider when in an art gallery, the sounds around us and how these can affect our experience.
After deconstructing the harmonic aspects of 'The Lamb', David then uses simple triangle waveforms and a 'geometric sequencer' in order to create rhythmic patterns in the piece, in response to Lothar’s geometric shapes. Playing the work across the 22 audio channels of our permanent soundwall creates what David calls audible ‘sound shapes’. Here David pushes the boundaries between visual and audible art and experience.
The version here is stereo only.
Words by Jenny Gleadell.


Geom (Stereo Mix)

Bats in the Garden

Pipistrelle, I think. Detector between 45-55kHz.

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My Wartime Experience - Kevin McSherry

Pattern: Plain Bob Minor
Number of Parts: 6
Sound: Great Tom bell at Lincoln Cathedral (A)
Attack: 20s
Key: A minor
BPM: 10
Pattern Length: 36m 30s
Aim of pattern: To demonstrate effect of acoustic space on sonic texture

Plain Bob Minor (Variation 1)

Pattern: Plain Bob Minor
Number of Parts: 12
Sounds: Great Tom bell at Lincoln Cathedral (A), Clock bell at Lincoln Cathedral (A), Clock bell at Lincoln Cathedral (E), bell at St Mary Magdalene church, Lincoln (C)
Attack: 20s
Key: A minor
BPM: 10
Pattern Length: 36m 30s
Aim of pattern: To demonstrate effect of acoustic space on more dense sonic texture

Plain Bob Minor (Variation 2)

Pattern: Plain Bob Minor
Number of Parts: 6
Sounds: Bell at St Mary Magdalene church, Lincoln (C)
Attack: 20s
Key: D Major
BPM: 10
Pattern Length: 36m 30s
Aim of pattern: To demonstrate effect of acoustic space on sonic texture

Plain Bob Minor (Variation 3)

Pattern: Plain Bob Minor
Number of Parts: 6
Sounds: Bell at St Mary Magdalene church, Lincoln (C)
Attack: 0.00ms
Key: D Major
BPM: 20 - 999
Pattern Length: N/A
Aim of pattern: To demonstrate Plain Bob Minor pattern with typical bell sound and tempo range

Plain Bob Minor (Tempo Change)

Pattern: Plain Bob Minor
Number of Parts: 12
Sounds: Analog - Simple Bass, Analog - Short Saw
Attack: N/A
Key: D Major
BPM: 362
Pattern Length: 59s
Aim of pattern: To demonstrate Plain Bob Minor pattern with non-bell sounds (LF)

Plain Bob Minor (Bass)

Pattern: Plain Bob Minor
Number of Parts: 6
Sounds: Analog - Bleep Pong
Attack: N/A
Key: D Major
BPM: 688
Pattern Length: 31s
Aim of pattern: To demonstrate Plain Bob Minor pattern with non-bell sounds (MF)

Plain Bob Minor (Bleep)

Remix for https://soundcloud.com/craig-bratley 
April 2012

David McSherry

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