Constructed mainly using my processed voice with the addition of a processed recording of the Funicular railway that runs between Lynton and Lynmouth, North Devon

River Of Styx

AWBHM

Dark Ambient using Julie Bokowiec's voice as the primary sound source

DroneNullA

Works in Progress

Jan2022_2

A favourite old piece of mine, jointly composed and performed by Julie Bokowiec. This was the Penultimate piece in 'Specific Space' commissioned for the  Contemporary Music Festival (1990)and performed over several nights at The Huddersfield City Art Gallery.

Fluid Space 1990

Amera was composed using soundfiles derived from field recordings taken in various localities in Devon and Cornwall including the boat construction yard in Polruan and the Funicular railway at Lynmouth.  This material was then processed using a variety of techniques in MSP, particularly Phase Vocoding and Granular synthesis to create a pallet of sonic motifs.  This material was then taken into the Absynth environment where it was reprocessed, modulated and orchestrated in real-time using a variety of custom built hardware controllers to create a number of long sequences.  The final piece was then constructed using ProTools and mixed in the Electro-acoustic Music Studios at the University of Huddersfield.

Amera_mp3

Live 2 channel recording of Pythia:Delphine21 Recorded in the SPIRAL (Spatialisation and Interactive Research Lab) at the University of Huddersfield, July 2016. Composed by Mark Bokowiec and performed by Julie Wilson-Bokowiec.

PythiaDelphine21_LiveRecording

A short recording of my Yamaha SRX600 with Supertrapp silencer

I've put this track on as an example of using tape delay to build up drones and textures in real time. In this case 2 x Revox machines with the tape fed between them - recording onto the first machine and playing back from the second machine. I also sampled sections of the loops into an AMS DMX1580s 15 bit digital Delay line, using the LockIn switches to loop up to 3.2/1.6 seconds that were then pitch changed using the dual pitch change cards - all this in TTL circuitry! 

Ambient kids 1982

V'Oct(Ritual) for performer and Bodycoder system ( www.bodycoder.com ) 8 channel recording mixed down to Stereo. Recorded in the SPIRAL, University of Huddersfield, Easter 2012. Performed by Julie Wilson-Bokowiec.

All processed sound is derived from the live and acoustic voice of the performer. The Bodycoder also provides the performer with real-time access to processing parameters and patches within the MSP environment as well as control over the sensitivity of sensors. In this way all vocalisations, decision making, navigation of the MSP environment and qualities of expressivity are selected, initiated and manipulated by the performer, uniquely, this also includes access to gestural control of live 8-channel spatialization.  This piece is fully scored with few moments of improvisation. 

marekbuk