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Solar Powered Gig: “In Flight” in Berlin

A version of my recent piece “In Flight” will be playing in Berlin later this month (June 2014).

The piece will be performed on a twelve channel solar-powered, wireless-networked audio system called Urban Solar Audio Plant and the gig will take place at the Aufbau Haus in Moritzplatz, Prinzenstr. 85D, 10969 Berlin. USAP will be playing pieces by over fifty composers from all over the world at various times from Thursday 19th until Saturday 21st June. Precise times for each composition have yet to be confirmed.

The performances, along with a workshop and other events, will be hosted by C60 Collaboratorium for cultural praxis.

USAP
C60 Collaboratorium

“Only Now” in San Francisco

“Only Now” will be playing at the Sweet Thunder music festival running from April 24th to April 27th in San Francisco. The performance will be included in an installation curated by Tom Erbe called the “Sweet Thunder Listening Room”.

“Only Now” will open concert h at 18:00 San Francisco time on Thursday 24th in the Fleet Room at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

Sweet Thunder
Listening Room Schedule

“Many Drops” in online micro-concert

“Many Drops” was included last month in IMAGINARY CONCERTS, an online micro concert with sound-art miniatures focusing on water and climate change consequences. The performance took place on March 22, 2014 at 5:00pm (Montreal time) as part of “3WDS14 – WaterWheel World Water Day Symposium”. The curator and host at Concordia University was Ricardo Dal Farra.

“Many Drops” is a one minute work I wrote for “art! ⋈ climate”, a contest organized by CEIARTE-UNTREF in collaboration with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre.

Concordia Music on Facebook

Ceiarte – UNTREF

“November”: a New York minute for 60×60

My new one minute piece, called “November” has been a given a place in the 60×60 surround sound presentation commissioned by Vox Novus and Harvestworks Digital Artworks Media Center in New York City.

60×60 is a one-hour-long show made by sequencing 60 pre-recorded pieces by 60 different composers, each piece a minute in length or shorter. This particular version will be a 5.1 surround sound mix to be premiered at Harvestworks multichannel TEAMLab listening room on May 16th at 7:00 pm EST.

“November” is a 4 channel piece created using my Audio SprayGun software written in SuperCollider. I will put a stereo reduction online soon.

Harvestworks
Vox Novus

Blogging

Most of my time these days is given over to writing music for my PhD rather than selling albums on CD, so I’ve decided to change the function of this website somewhat.

From now on, I plan to use the site to document both work in progress and earlier work which stand as precursors to my current efforts. This will take the form of blog posts, audio links and software tools available for download. The aim is to share my ideas with whoever’s interested.

The underlying theme of the work continues to be developing of generative music software (more often than not featuring fuzzy-probabilistic hybrids) and then writing music with it. This includes some SuperCollider work to create and spatialise large sound event-groups from a few samples; and some pieces for instrument (flute and hexaphonic guitar so far) and computer using IRCAM Mubu software.

more posts on the story so far coming soon…

Flute Sketch

Here is the preliminary sketch I made for the flute/electronics piece which is to be played at INTER/actions in Bangor next month. The flute part was generously donated by Sean Goldthorpe and the computer part makes extensive use of the IRCAM Mubu multibuffer.

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INTER/Actions

A new piece of mine for Flute and Electronics has been selected for workshopping (if that’s a word) at the INTER/Actions mini-festival and symposium to be held at Bangor University on the 15th /16th March. The flute will be played by Richard Craig and the workshop will be led by composer and sound artist Gilbert Nouno (IRCAM). The workshop will also feature pieces by James Joslin and Manuella Blackburn.

INTER/Actions

“Only Now” at Electroacoustic Wales 7/11/13

My most recent acousmatic piece, “Only Now” will have its premiere as part of the Electroacoustic Wales Concert in Powis Hall, Bangor University on Thursday 7th November at 8:00. The piece features some of my large-scale “sound-groups” realised in Supercollider and will be played back over a 32 speaker surround system.

More information at www.pontio.co.uk