Performed, recorded, and mixed by the University of Manitoba's eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE)in Winnipeg, Manitoba (2022):

The 2022 XIE ensemble features the following performers:
Kelsen Hadder
Alison Hain
Kathleen Murphy
Rebeka Schroeder

Dr. Gordon Fitzell (director)

The eXperimental Improv Ensemble perform Open Graphic Score #4 (electroacoustic)

Performed on 2021/12/06 at McGill University.

Antonin Bourgault :: saxophone
Victor Burton :: composition & engineering

score & video :: onto.systems/thermal-effects/

Thermal Effects Of Incendiary Weapons On The Human Body [short take]

Thermal Effects Of Incendiary Weapons On The Human Body [long take]

Graphic score based on interpretation of drained tea leaves.

Patch on my modular system is built on a repeating sequence of 8 triggers from which the pitch is also derived (Turing Machine) - on/off state initialised from the graphic score shown. Sequence flips in and out of double speed (intrinsic to patch, not part of score).

3 latching gates (gt1, gt2 and gt3) and two control voltages (cv1 and cv2)are used to control various parameters of the patch. These are also as shown in the graphic score and determined by arrangement of tea leaves.

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Music Thing Modular Turing Machine, Control
Erica Synths Black Hole DSP
Addac Manual Latches

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More on this 550th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Abrupt Probability (The Assignment: Make music based on a chance graphic score) – at: https://disquiet.com/0550/

Thanks to Tobias Reber and Musikfestival Bern for collaboration on this project. More on the festival at:

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https://www.facebook.com/musikfestivalbern

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disquiet0550 - tea leaves

Composed by Kristina Warren
Performed by Dither, Charlottesville, VA, 2013
Inspired by Korean p'ansori-style vocals

Pogpo

Seven Counting Pieces, Graphic Score by Willyn Whiting.

Performed by The Noisebringers + Colin Frank, October 2022

Willyn Whiting - Seven Counting Pieces (Brice Catherin, Maria Sappho, Colin Frank, Henry McPherson)

Recording of "Three Imaginations with Colors", graphic score by Taguchi Motohide (田口雅英)

Recorded by Henry McPherson, October 2022.

Taguchi Motohide- Three Imaginations With Colors (2020)(Cello, Bass Recorder, Harp, Broken Guitar)

"Generously Hesitate", a text score by Ralph Lewis.

Recorded by Henry McPherson (Cello)

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Generously Hesitate
Among these Cracks

Dance like a
Bumblebee so the
Whole Group will
Follow you

Remember how
You Arrived at this
Crossing before
the Flood

Forget as you
Twist around toward Home

Never get there.
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Audio © Henry McPherson 2022

Ralph Lewis - Generously Hesitate (Solo Cello)

Recording of "Intersections" - Open Score by Brittany Green

Henry McPherson - Bass Recorders (x4)

Audio © Henry McPherson 2022

Brittany Green - Intersections (Bass Recorders)

Karidi’s audio documentation of a performance score for six voices, named 'That Riff Ensemble', puts a magnifying glass on backing vocalists and the work that is required by them on stage, by detaching them from the lead singer and the solos. In terms of music composition, by shifting the importance, by repeating vocal phrases as mere chants, there is an original take on the musical elements that are there to bridge, to support, to enhance and embellish. By having people perform these parts as loops, the musical objects turn into subjects, thus an interesting reclaiming of the human voice and body occurs, as well as a space reclaiming in reference to club culture history.
The musical genre references draw elements from soul, hip hop and dance music and touch upon the phenomenon of the pop hit which forms a song vocabulary deeply rooted in collective consciousness. Traced by memory these songs are in turn realized through the medium of performance within which Yorgia usually operates. The performance is realized with the use of visual and audio cues and with minimal rehearsals. The performers are untrained singers who react rather than use special vocal skills to perform this piece while being in a vulnerable yet empowered position that acapella singing holds. The repetitive phrases, ταυτο-phonic or polyphonic at parts, create an immersive, hyper-focused reception of songs like: Corona's 'This is the rhythm of the night', 'Tajabone' by Ismael Lo, 'Ready or not' by the Fugees, 'Breathe' by The Prodigy, 'Shoop' by Salt-N-Pepa et al.
In the course of the performance a space emerges where one can re-listen / re-learn songs one has always known, exploring a fresh look at sharing and perceiving music. That singing is thus unfinished, yet good enough. Complete and autonomous, the inexperienced yet liberated rendition of these riffs suggests that it is not in technique rather than in good humor and unison that this core of completion can be sought out.
That Riff Ensemble Audio, Audio transcription of a Performance Score, duration: 24 mins, Yorgia Karidi, 2022
Voices heard: Nonika, Danae Stefanou, Ioannis Kotsonis, Filippos Diamantopoulos, Mike Zambaras, Smaro Papaevangelou, Konstantinos Skopas, Yorgia Karidi & Ste Atzemi. Initially performed by Sofia Zafeiriou, Sofia Mamazi, Filippos Diamantopoulos, Mike Zambaras and Nick Gr.
Yorgia Karidi (Athens, Greece) is a visual artist, musician and performer, whose works / ‘live sets’ focus on listening, vocal qualities and media / genre modulations. She works with painting, sculpture, video, performance, sound and verbal scores. She has worked extensively with the human voice in performance with the desire to understand the historical, political and cultural context of the existence of a femininity in the world.
In her recent works such as the performance ‘I Love that Song’ at Hyle and the podcast ‘Are Song Lyrics Poems?’ launched in the 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2021, the artist refers to how we perceive folk and pop music culture and literary lyricism, constructing a dictionary of rizom connections between memory, desire, consciousness, in order to offer this affect as a basis for transformation.
Yorgia has also curated live radio shows and collaborative projects such as  the YouTube project 'The See Channel': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGuAXJbwtng&list=PL4NNqaDRm6F98AtVa6xJnegbCM8gnjIg-
Yorgia Karidi's work as part of the  POLYPHONIZE/ Noise to meet you project presented on Nicosia's E.KA.TE. the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts(November 10 -14th 2022). Curating: Ilina Chervonnaya & Katerina Neofytidou. The work also premiered simultaneously on the 63rd Thessaloniki Film Festival's Podcast Department under the title Shoop! and broadcasted live on the radio show Κυτταρίνη και άλλες ουσίες on lemoniradio.com with a discussion between Yorgia Karidi and the host Eleni Kosti on 14/11/22, UTC+2.

𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙍𝙞𝙛𝙛 𝙀𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚, About a performance score by Yorgia Karidi

Composer, Improviser, Sound Artist, and Researcher
https://blackgalaxie.bandcamp.com/
https://nolanahildebrand.wixsite.com/mysite

Henry McPherson is an artist, improviser, researcher, and composer from the United Kingdom. Emerging from a background in musical composition and performance, his creative practice draws widely across the visual, sonic, kinetic and somatic, in a shifting exploration of diverse communicative and aesthetic processes. He is a founding member of the Improvising trio the Noisebringers (with Brice Catherin, FR; Maria Sappho, USA), co-founder and editor at the MASS Collection (Digital Publication), and has previously been associated with the queer chamber trio Savage Parade (with Inkeri Kallio, FI; Adam Hall, USA). His work has been shown internationally in Europe, North and South America across diverse settings – from concert halls to galleries, from bathrooms to dance studios, from parks and warehouses to cafes, virtual spaces and radio – and most recently across online platforms throughout the global pandemic, with hybrid virtual-physical exhibitions at NGallery (Athens, GR), Galérie Analix Forever (Geneva, CH), and virtual sharings at NY20+ Gallery (Chengdu, CN) and Jefferson Park EXP (Chicago, USA) . His concert compositions have been performed by ensembles such as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Ensemble Modern, the Decibel Ensemble, RedNote Ensemble, the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Ensemble Academy Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, and the MusicLab ensemble of students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. His recent collaboration – Worldwide Anthology – with the Noisebringers, Xina Hawkins (AU) and Christophe Schwiezer (CH), was supported by the Goethe Institute as part of its Virtual Partner Residency 2020. He has also held the position of artist in residence at Manasamitra Arts (UK, 2021), at Despina gallery in Rio de Janeiro (BR, 2018) with the Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh (UK, 2018-19), as well as at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (CA, 2018). He is a contributor, co-editor and curator of the MASS collection, a monthly online publication of discursive art, articles, and opinion pieces addressing global issues. Henry is a visiting teacher in Free Improvisation at the Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland, and lectures undergraduates at the University of Huddersfield.

Experimental saxophonist and composer based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke

New tracks tagged #graphicscore