'interruptions' is a sound installation composed for Ilona Skladzien's exhibition 'play nicely'. It attempts to sit in the space between the two words which make up the exhibition's title and understand the relationship between them. How does one fit play - imaginative, abrupt, sometimes loud and destructive - into socially acceptable concepts of niceness? Joy Ingle uses granular synthesis to veer between ’nice’ and ’noise’ in this sound installation, breaking down and rebuilding sounds to play with the boundary in-between them.

interruptions

Rehearsal recordings for the ZONA HOST evening at Sidle House Gallery, as part of Colin Cheney's curatorial effort, "things we lost in the: The Legacy of St. Amelia’s College of Speculative Timbre".

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2024.10.05 ZONA HOST Addenda

An improvised performance using iOS apps, Ableton Live and midi keyboards. Field recordings of young Barn Owls still in their nest have been combined with synth layers and granular synthesis to produce eerie textures and a sweeping ambient soundscape.

Improv Owls Variation 3

Improv Owls Variation 2

Cloud Mechanics:
A kinetic interplay of granulated textures and analogue synth waves, evoking the precision and intricacy of a machine in motion. The piece explores layers of sound that build, shift, and dissolve like interconnected gears in a delicate, evolving system. It’s less about ethereal clouds and more about the mechanics of transformation and flow.

Cloud Mechanics

Obsidian Frequencies II:
An intricate interplay of analog synth pulses and fragmented granulated textures, conjuring the dark resonance of an ancient machine awakening. The piece unravels in layers—unpredictable patterns from a random generator merge with the tactile grain of sound, evolving like shadows cast by flickering light through a shattered cathedral window.

Less about melody and more about the tension between control and chaos, Obsidian Frequencies II embodies a transformation—a journey through cascading frequencies, fractured harmonics, and the echoes of forgotten architectures.

Obsidian Frequencies II

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This is a cinematic composition with electroacoustic elements, mainly of granular synthesis, with free improvisational playing on piano and double bass, and excerpts with a female voice from ‘Genesis’ by Tasos Livaditis. It is an attempt to create a soundscape based on the present poem.

Αυτή είναι μια κινηματογραφική σύνθεση με ηλεκτροακουστικά στοιχεία, κυρίως κοκκώδους σύνθεσης, με ελεύθερο αυτοσχεδιαστικό παίξιμο σε πιάνο και κοντραμπάσο, και αποσπάσματα με γυναικεία φωνή από τη ‘Γένεση’ του Τάσου Λειβαδίτη. Είναι μια απόπειρα δημιουργίας ηχοτοπίου βασισμένου στο παρών ποίημα.


Groanings of the soul

In the ruins of the cathedral, the machine waits. Its purpose is unclear, its hum steady, its randomness precise. The hands that built it are long gone, their intentions scattered like dust in the stained glass light.

And yet, a melody emerges.

Fragile at first, as if pulled from the cracks of the machine itself. It twists and falters, rising through the chaos, threading between fractured textures. It does not linger—it is too elusive, too human. A brief resonance of something long forgotten, before dissolving back into the drone.

The machine does not speak, but it listens. Its frequencies ripple through thought, stitching together fragments of memory, weaving chaos into fleeting patterns. The air feels alive, charged with the weight of something unsaid.

They say it was built not for power, but for understanding. To hear what cannot be spoken. To shape what cannot be seen. Its final act is sudden—a crescendo of harmony collapsing into silence.

In the stillness, the question lingers: who built it? And why?

Obsidian Frequencies III

this recording came from a performance i did at the summaery exhibition of the bauhaus university weimar. i played with manipulated recordings of the tagesthemen programme from the 09/24/2024 at 22.15. the broadcast dealt with situations of the war in lebanon, the uno general assembly, the war in the ukraine, homelessness in augsburg, apples near hamburg and some other topics. 

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Since moving to Dumfries and Galloway Taylor has  been focussed on improvisation, software based modular and iPad performance tools. Typically resulting in ambient and generative sound design. He is part of Sonic Labs, an improvisation group based at The Stove, Dumfries.

Taylor Nuttall is a composer, artist and sound designer. Seeking to avoid specific genres, his work is often a hybrid of influences that  incorporates found sounds and seemingly disparate though often very personal content. The environment, sustainability and climate change are a constant underlying thematic.

‘Is This Just One Day’, a 30 minute evocative soundscape was produced after winning a commission for the Sounds of Silence program by Aerial Festival, launched in September 2020. Taylor has been involved in a number of collaborative projects most recently working with artist and curator Dominic Smith to produce ‘Triangulation’ an EP released by Etched Traumas in August 2021.

After working extensively in the arts for many years leading multimedia arts organisation Folly and as a founding director of Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Taylor is currently a board member for Full of Noises, a sound art and new music organisation based in a public park on Cumbria’s Furness Peninsula.

Having recently moved from the Lake District to Dumfries and Galloway Taylor Nuttall lives on a small holding near Castle Douglas with a small flock of sheep. 

Taylor Nuttall trained as a visual artist and has an early exhibition career with artworks featuring painting, print, sculpture, photography and installation. In the late 80’s and early 90’s he began to explore the potential of creativity using computer technologies. As well as exhibiting these works in traditional gallery spaces this led to a number of pieces being designed to be experienced online as virtual artworks. These virtual artworks also began to explore the use of sound. Taylor is now working with sound, drawing upon composition and musical skills he learned from playing piano and classical guitar as well as re-learning more robustly about sound design, composition and music theory.

'Is this just One Day?' released September 2020, a new commision for Aerial Festival. https://aerialfestival.com/

Without Visual - April 2021 - https://www.instagram.com/surmise_collective/

EP - ‘Triangulation’ released by Etched Traumas -August 2021 - https://archive.org/details/et132_tn_and_ds_triangulation

The Stove Inprovisation showcase, Market of Possibilities, Dumfries 2023

Hidden Gems Festival, Dumfries 2024

FON 15th Anniversary Concert, Piel House, Barrow in Furness 2024

Tracks played on:
BBC Radio Introducing - BBC Radio Cumbria
Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cumbria
Space is the Place Radio Show - Cando FM - @SpaceisthePlac9
The Magic Window - MadWaspRadio - https://madwaspradio.com/
Hello Goodbye Radio Show - Resonance FM - https://hellogoodbyeshow.com/
Star & Shadow Radio https://soundcloud.com/tynesidesounds
Eagle Nest Radio - @eaglesmusicnest


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