07.01.23 Marc

(binaural - headphones recommended) One windy night in Scarborough near the harbour. Lots of hiding shiftily behind lobster traps and all sorts. Sometimes terrifying. 

Very, Very Windy Seafront (binaural)

Sunshine rum

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Prix Destellos 2016 
1st Prize Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition

Attraction or affinity to place. The work is an attempt to construct a meaningful intimate aural space, where texture and spatially defined figures have a broader capacity for action due to their multichannel nature. The recordings of source materials form the beginning of an investigation into capturing and working with spatiality in micro space using bespoke hardware.

Image Photo: Giorgos Siniorakis.

Topophilia (Stereo Reduction Excerpt)

Platforms 3 and 4 [NB this is an unedited field recording]

This piece is based on the opening of chapter 11 of James Joyce’s Ulysses. I find the chosen text to have a particularly musical quality, which comes as no surprise as Joyce intended it to act as an overture to chapter 11, which is inspired by, and a tribute to, the art of music.

The entire material for the piece has been created solely from recordings of readings from the text. Through different sound transformation techniques I have created a wide range of sonic material which mirrors the literal meaning of the words. I have tried to create a musical structure, as well as providing word-painting for the text and exploiting its innate musical quality. In order to respect the text, I felt it important to maintain coherence of the spoken word throughout the piece as well as using it to create supporting textures and gestures. The piece’s title reflects the way I have interpreted Joyce’s words, which to me evoke a vision-like quality.

The piece was composed in 2002 for the First Otto Joachim Project Studio Residency Competition, Concordia, Montreal. It was a finalist in the ‘1st Electroacoustic Miniatures Competition’, Confluencias, Spain. It is available on the CD of the same name, published with funds from the Junta de Andalucia.


Joyce's Vision

An orchestral piece with singing fish and hydrophone recordings of me singing and playing metal instruments as heard underwater

Katherine Betteridge's Album

Turas

Programme Notes

Corporate media groups are among the most powerful organisations on the planet, framing and sculpting the information distributed across the globe. In Manufacturing Consent the 1994 publication by Noam Chomsky and Edward S Herman, the authors demonstrate that collusion and innate bias as inevitable products of a corporatised news media. 

Adapting the literary work, Print + Press is inspired by these themes, and attempts to depict a varied and fragmented dataset, which is inevitably unified by its central objective. The composition is composed entirely from sounds derived from printing and copying equipment and in doing so encapsulates soundtypes directly related to the thesis.

Print + Press

Exploring combining my Onoleo and Golden Arcadia Pantheon Steel Halo's. 

Recorded on 7/31/19
David Blink - Pantheon Steel Halo: Onoleo & Golden Arcadia

2 Pan Shuffle (Pre-Deep Playa Wonderings 2019)

Outside

Eugene Feldman @eugene-fluteman — flute, vocals
Konstantin Negodaev @konstantin-negodaev — guitar
Nikolay Yakovlev @nikolay-yakovlev — bass
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Евгений Фельдман — флейта
Константин Негодаев — гитара
Николай Яковлев — бас

Break — Fluteman Trio

Rob Mackay is a composer, sound artist and performer. He gained a degree in Geology and Music at the University of Keele, studying composition there with Mike Vaughan, before going on to complete a Master’s and PhD with Andrew Lewis at the University of Wales, Bangor. Currently he is a Reader in Creative Music Technology at the University of Hull.

Recent projects have moved towards a cross-disciplinary approach, including theatre, audio/visual installation work, and human/computer interaction. Prizes and honours include: IMEB Bourges (1997 and 2001); EAR99 from Hungarian Radio (1999); Confluencias (2003); La Muse en Circuit (2004 and 2006). His work has received over 100 performances in 16 countries (including several performances on BBC Radio 3). Currently he is working with percussionist Evelyn Glennie on a composition project as part of Ruskin Rocks (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ruskinrocks/).

He has held composer residencies at Slovak Radio (Bratislava), La Muse en Circuit (Paris), and the Tyrone Guthre Arts Centre (Ireland).

He is an improvisor working across many genres, and for several years played with the improvisation ensemble 'Imp'. He has also enjoyed improvising with Rhodri Davies and Jez Riley French. He has played, written and produced in a number of bands and ensembles, including the Welsh Hip-Hop collective 'Tystion' with whom he collaborated alongside John Cale on the film ‘A Beautiful Mistake’, as well as recording two John Peel sessions on BBC Radio 1 and supporting PJ Harvey. More recently, he has done session work for Gowel Owen and Euros Childs as well as playing in the Welsh Afrofunk outfit 'Drymbago'.

6 CDs including his compositions are available. More information and pieces at: www.digital-music-archives.com and http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/dramamusicandscreen/ourstaff/musicstaff/robmackay.aspx

Joyce's Vision

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