Quarter to 6ix (Interlude)

new york as a labor city

This track is inspired by the creators of the Schick Machine (Paul Dresher, Steven Schick, Rinde Eckert, Matt Heckert, and Daniel Schmidt) and their abstract use of noises from found objects within their art.

I call this "Midnight Snack" because a lot of the sounds used in this piece were created from objects in my kitchen and I feel like it tells the tale of trying to find the perfect snack in the middle of the night. Enjoy!

Midnight Snack

Lèlè #1 was presented on 11-05-23 at Powerhouse Museum by Temporary Position as part of their curated Powerhouse Late program. 

Materials:
vibrator, acupuncture needles, guzheng, string, brass bells, head massager, double bass, guzheng stand, rope, blutac, baby chair, giant balloon, cable tie, back massager, melodica, multicoloured transparency, lamp, small balloon, plastic flute

Lèlè #1

Richard Perry - It's All Over Now (1969)

sound art for disquiet0682.

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

I live in Glasgow where every child is taught this verse in school:

here is the tree that never grew
here is the bird that never flew
here is the fish that never swam
here is the bell that never rang

It refers to the Glasgow Coat of Arms which has a tree, a bird, a fish and a bell on it. The symbols represent tales and miracles from the life of St. Mungo (Patron Saint of Glasgow).

It seemed like a good fit for the title of this Junto project.

For the track I used a large metal light shade (that I found in the streets of Glasgow) and a rock. I rubbed the rock around the inside of the light shade, taking special care as to the speed, volume and resonance of the sound. Different areas of the shade produced different sounds; scraping, hissing or resonant tones. I recorded two tracks like this with contact mics and panned them hard left and right. Then playing the edge of the shade with a violin bow, I recorded some pulsing feedbacky sounds. I didn’t use effects or even any EQing, I just kept re-recording things until I got them exactly right, instead of fixing them on the computer.

here is the bell that never rang (disquiet0682)

Reading by Ensemble Dal Niente at University of North Texas

Concrete Forest (2025) for Bass Clarinet, Piano and Percussion

Cheuk Shing Li (Sampson) is a Hong Kong-born composer whose works explore sound, texture, and timbre.  
 

Sampson’s compositions have been recognized internationally. His recognitions include winning the 2023 JACK Studio (JACK Quartet), the Barcelona Modern International Composition Course Call for Scores, Toolbox Percussion International Composition Competition, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble Sonic-Visual Interplay (CoLab) Call. He was also a finalist in the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild New Generation Competition (2022 and 2023) and a recipient of scholarships such as the David M. Schimmel Memorial Composition Scholarship Fund and the Dr. Paul Gregory Bonneau Memorial Composition Scholarship in 2024.

 

His works have been performed by ensembles like the Barcelona Modern Ensemble, New Morse Code, Romer Quartet, Dawning Quartet, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble,  JACK Quartet. They have been featured in renowned festivals, including the Barcelona Modern Festival and the Toolbox International Creative Academy.

 

Sampson is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Music Composition at the University of North Texas, where he studies with Panayiotis Kokoras and Jon Nelson. He previously earned a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Music from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), studying composition with Camilo Mendez and Stylianos Dimou.


Sampson’s development as a composer has been further enriched by Chaya Czernowin, Héctor Parra, Ken Ueno, Daniel D’adamo, Nathaniel Stookey and Chikako Morishita.

Psychedelic Synthpop // Intergalactic Indietronica

@theintergalacticjellybean

Artist and non-musician making sound art with found objects.

Lèlè is an emerging collaborative practice by Yongping Ren and Benjamin Woods.

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