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Works from collaboration with butoh artist Gabrielle New. Season in Melbourne - September 2011.

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Creature

Sketch for beginning of Mark Solter's award winning film The Moon Smells Like Gunpowder. Formed from improvisations with Gemma Bass and Gary Farr.

Violin: Gemma Bass
Trumpet: Gary Farr

The Moon Smells Like Gunpowder - beginning sketch

Sketch for beginning of Mark Solter's award winning film The Moon Smells Like Gunpowder. Formed from improvisations with Harry Percy, Gemma Bass and Gary Farr.

Percussion: Harry Percy
Violin: Gemma Bass
Trumpet: Gary Farr

The Moon Smells Like Gunpowder - room scene sketch

Sketch for Mark Solter's award winning film The Moon Smells Like Gunpowder. Formed from improvisations with Harry Percy, Gemma Bass and Gary Farr.

Violin: Gemma Bass
Trumpet: Gary Farr
Percussion: Harry Percy

The Moon Smells Like Gunpowder - end sketch

from Safe In Sound - a multileveled multi-artist collaborative work blending sonic art, butoh, theatre, video art and instrumental performance

Words: Simon Taylor
Actor/voice artist: Jeff Gane
Field recording and electronics: Norman Skipp

do you hear?

Collaboration with butoh artist Gabrielle New

Menagerie of Innocence

'of breath' - duo for B flat clarinet with electronic sounds and live processing
Sarah Masters - B flat clarinet
Norm Skipp - live electronics

Performance as part of Fuse at Chorlton Arts Festival 2013
Of Breath was commissioned by Gretchen la Roche in 2005 with funds made available by Creative New Zealand.
Gretchen and Norm worked closely to create the original rendering of this work.
This performance is the first to involve another collaborator in Sarah Masters

Live performance at St. Werburgh's Church, Chorlton - May 2013

of breath (CAF 2013 version)

'Meditation on Place' -
Bethan Roberts - cor anglais
Jeff Gane - actor
Simon Taylor - words
Norm Skipp - pre-composed environment and live electronics

This rendering of Meditation on Place from mixed media work Safe In Sound incorporates live improvisation of Bethan Roberts on cor anglais with live electronic manipulations by myself. This gives additional colours and explorations of the original piece from 2001 which features actor Jeff Gane performing the words of Simon Taylor.

This performance was part of Fuse at Chorlton Arts Festival 2013.

Live performance at St. Werburgh's Church, Chorlton - May 2013

Meditation On Place CAF2013

Trumpet - Gary Farr
Violin - Gemma South
Bass and E flat Clarinet - Marianne Rawles
Electronics - Norm Skipp

A newly commissioned work with the Vonnegut Collective as part of the Didsbury Arts Festival. '...tiny lights...' draws inspiration from the novel 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' by Haruki Murakami and delves into that space between sleep and wakefulness, combining electronic and acoustic sound, notated and improvised music, to create a surreal, dream-like sound-space.

The performance took place as part of a charity evening at the Siemens Building in Manchester on the 25th June 2015

...tiny lights... (with Vonnegut Collective - live at Siemens 25th June 2015)

electronic only mix for closing piece of Matrafisc Dance/Vonnegut Collective collaboration - Souls Paths. A site specific work performed at the Wonder Inn, Manchester in October 2017

Souls Paths (2017 electronic only mix)

Part 1 of Creature - a butoh dance theatre collaboration with Gabrielle New
created in 2009

The Void

“The Colour of Death: White” is a collaboration with Gabrielle Leah New and Carolyn Cardinet. As Gabrielle says “The work addresses creatively the frustration , despair and sadness of the death of our Coral reefs through Coral bleaching as part of Climate change.”

The Colour of Death - White

Part 3 of 'Creature' - a collaboration with dancer/choreographer Gabrielle New.
This part also collaboration with Rod Skipp on 'cello. 2010

Emergence

Norm Skipp is a NZ/UK composer/sonic artist, video artist and online editor/compositor based in Manchester, UK. Norm devotes himself to creating innovative sound and visual compositions in collaboration with a diverse range of artists. Recent collaborations with Australia based director/dancer/choreographer Gabrielle New, Creature and The Thing with Feathers, both had successful seasons in Melbourne 2011 and 2013 respectively. Norm recently created a short film soundtrack for 45 RPM, which received its premiere in New Zealand In September 2014.

His wide and varied body of work often involves multi-artist works such as ‘Safe In Sound’ and ‘Feast’ (with fellow composer Paul Booth and writer/director Simon Taylor) which are multileveled works blending sonic art, butoh, theatre, video art and instrumental performance.

He completed a Music degree (composition) in New Zealand in 1994 studying with Jack Body, Ross Harris, John Elmsly and John Rimmer. In 2007, while in residence at the Centre Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris, he was fortunate enough to study with Gérard Pape, Jean-Claude Risset, Trevor Wishart, Curtis Roads, Harry Halbreich, Agostino di Scipio and Makis Solomos

International performances of his video and sound work have taken place in New Zealand, Australia, U.S.A., U.K., France, Canada and Iceland as part of festivals such as NextWave, Soliton, Pulsefield, 34th New Zealand International Film Festival 2002, RAFLOST 2011, Festival Licènces and Synthèse.

Works include:

‘Obsidian’; for Cor Anglais, Clarinet in A and Bassoon written for the Manchester Reed Trio

‘The Right to Remain Silent’; which was realised at CCMIX in Paris in early 2007

‘An Aversion to Light [2]’; a short dance film collaboration with choreographer Kristian Larsen and composer leyton

‘Beyond Skin’; a mixed media dance collaboration with choreographer Kathleen Skipp

‘Epithalamion’; a live–processing realisation of the poem by E. E. Cummings with actor Michael Hurst for the (09)03 Contemporary Music Festival 

In 2008 he formed _scape with his brother Rod Skipp to create various improvised live electronic works.  This recently saw them create (arc) and open with a number of notable Manchester musicians.

Norman Skipp

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