Homage to Janet Beat: Section 2: Inside the Bell Dome (Working Title)

Warning message: Binaural recording, please wear headphones to experience the work.

Binaural recording of an extract from section 2 of my 16-channel acousmatic homage work honouring the pioneering music, practice and career of British electronic composer Janet Beat (b. 1937).

Originally composed for a 16-channel speaker layout consisting of two double rings of 8; see layout below.

Top speaker system:
  1  2
8      3
7      4
  6  5

Bottom speaker system:
   9  10
16      11
15      12
  14  13

This piece will be part of a series of electroacoustic compositions and sound installations paying homage to early women electronic composers, created as part of my PhD research at the University of Liverpool (UK).

Homage to Janet Beat: Section 2: Inside the Bell Dome [binaural recording wear headphones]

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I am an electroacoustic composer who specialises in acousmatic works and sound installations. My works also incorporate interaction, soundscape, improvisation, multichannel surround, sound design and live performance elements. I have an MA in electroacoustic composition and sonic art from Liverpool Hope University. I am currently conducting a practice-based PhD in electroacoustic composition, exploring the concept of ‘homage’ as a device and approach within compositional practice, specifically to highlight and celebrate the music and output of forgotten early women electronic music composers. I also design and deliver sound-based workshops for participants to learn how to compose with sound.

My work has been performed across the Northwest including venues such as the Capstone Theatre, Congleton Town Hall, The Royal Northern College of Music and across Halton Libraires venues (Ditton, Widnes, Runcorn, and Halton Lea Library). My compositions have been featured on the radio, most recently on BBC’s Merseyside’s ‘Folkscene’ programme. I was also a finalist for Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity ‘Impact Award – Health & Wellbeing’ (2021), for my immersive interactive audio-visual sound installation ‘dɪsˈlɛksɪə ˈɡeɪtweɪ (dyslexia gateway)’, which highlights the dyslexic’s perspective.

Mishmash of ideas, tunes and so-called songs. Hopefully you'll find a bit here and there to enjoy. Please leave a comment, I appreciate feedback, let it be praise (unlikely) or criticism. Take care and have a good one.

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I’m Shih-Lin Hung, a composer and sound artist from Taiwan. I explore memory, space, and disappearance through acousmatic and electroacoustic sound.

Open to interdisciplinary, cross-border, and remote collaborations — especially in film and experimental sound work.
Contact: alfredpierrot@gmail.com

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我是洪世霖，來自台灣的作曲家與聲音藝術創作者。透過 acousmatic 與電聲創作探索記憶、空間與消逝。

歡迎跨領域、跨國與遠端合作，特別是在影像與實驗聲音創作中。
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“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

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Home of sweet experimental slow music, sound and art practice by Nukumori Eugene / Nx -街音の収集 (always welcome demo & collabo for release from Living Room Tapes)　　 

Nukumori Eugene / Nx ﾇｸﾓﾘ ﾕｰｼﾞﾝ / ぬくもりゆーじん is a Hong Kong - Japan Base Sound Artist, Researcher and  Architect. He is joining the sound & art projects around the world beside run his own label  "Living Room Tapes" - the sound & art collective. 

The project often highlights the sounds and arts placed between the nature and city's folklore - deconstructive city street culture and urban suburbia - related to the urban observation research project ~ Research and Practice of Alternative Art Space / Micro-Art Space  

featured projects :  Strange Ordinary Necessities不思議な日用品 / Urban Observational Studies 都市観察学会 / Skmtt /  / HONG KONG SUBURBIA / 3am / Soundscape Saitama 100 / 100音夜行 / Edition 1/f / A TALE OF OUR CITIES / MEIV

Homage to Janet Beat: Section 2: Inside the Bell Dome [binaural recording wear headphones]

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