FICTIVE MUSIC//REALITY REGRET [04.05.2021]
'FICTIVE MUSIC//REALITY REGRET' is a virtual gallery exhibition and online residency by students of the Electronic and Produced Music department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with IKLECTIK Art Lab.
The residency took place over the course of several remote workshops focused on the themes of world building, unreality, and escapism, especially as discussed in Nick Scavo’s essay Against Worldbuilding and Wallace Stevens’ poem To The One Of Fictive Music.
The group also spent time on discussions of modern magical thinking, the CIA’s insidious appreciation of jazz, and how artists can critically engage with post-modern systems of power.
The gallery exhibition collects some of the refined output from these workshops and presents it as a simulation of space exploration, wherein audience members are invited to spend time in the orbit of various planets in a system of “built worlds.
My contribution “im(ai)gine” features a track in which I attempt to create a version of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ which sounds like it has been made by an AI generative neural network.
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shrink your body for a long time [05.06.2020]
I got fed up with the monotonous tone of my virtual yoga teacher's synthetic voice so I recorded the output of the yoga app I use, cut up the audio, and repurposed the words to create a poem.
Inspired by the practices of the Oulipo group, I applied an element of restriction and wrote the poem using only the words spoken in the instructions of a 10 minute exercise from the app.
Slowly lift up your carpet and close your eyes
Do not place your face here
Shrink your body for a long time
Gently bring your spine to the entire foot
The core can get deep while straightening
Prepare to completely return to the start
Take your hips to your dog
And lift up your entire dog
Twist the twist
Take the force
Raise the gain
And balance the breaths
Bend your face upwards
First 3 times, then 5 times
The original step can take your breath side to side
Do not pull in your weight
Apart for a long time
Return to the first time
Your body finally here
Parallel to both your toes
Next, exhale for a long time
Then, do not inhale
Finally
Close your eyes
Barbican Sound Unbound 2019 - 5 Short Pieces for Vocals & Bells [19.05.2019]
I was commissioned to write these 5 short pieces as part of Barbican’s Sound Unbound 2019 festival. They were featured in a new song cycle for live voices, bells & electronics, which took place in The Gresham Centre in London over two days. The pieces were originally composed for a quadraphonic speaker array; below, they are presented in stereo.
Singers: Carla Satrustegui Reclusa, Joseph Partridge, Laurie Chattington, Alexander Fritze
personal_stream [27.09.2018]
In ‘personal_stream’ I put various sound design techniques I learnt in MaxMSP into practice.
Speech performances: May Kershaw
LONDON SUSPECTS - Daniela Barbeira [19.06.2018]
I produced the sound design for Daniela Barbeira’s final MA Graphic Communication Design project ‘LONDON SUSPECTS’ which was premiered at the Lethaby Gallery, London in June 2018, and nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Award.
“On a daily commute in London, the British Transport Police’s ‘See it, Say it, Sorted’ campaign reminds travellers to stay alert. In the fight against crime on public transport, we are encouraged to report anything that we find suspicious to the authorities. But what is at stake when we suspect? Are we ready to judge who or what should be considered dangerous? And if we accept this task, will we live in a constant state of paranoia?
LONDON SUSPECTS is a phone line that puts forward questions to the public, recording thoughts on the implications of suspicion in public space. The phone number is distributed on the estate of the London transportation network, as well as in social media channels. Commuters are invited to call the number and contribute to a sound archive of voice recordings.”
Click here for more information: https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins/stories/creative-unions-coded-intimacy
Click here for Daniela’s website: http://www.danielabarbeira.com/
Photos by Daniela Barbeira
Jamalalia [21.02.2018]
My attempt to recreate the processing and effects used in Trevor Wishart's "Globalalia" using only my own voice.
Sonar96kHz [03.10.2017]