Soundlines, an educational pervasive landscape project with Strata Collective, has been simmering away in the background for the past 6-7 months, and last night we had our first sample audio-walk with music created by Russ and Jane in response to Sand Point, North Somerset.
Contact me if you'd like an invite to a Soundlines hilltop experience celebrating the launch of the Cultural Olympiad at the end of July....
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Kukicha Live
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
music for film -> film for music
Roles reversed as Kukicha asked me to make images to accompany their music. We've gone for a nature/machine glitchy film look to complement their wonderful mix of sounds (oboe, clarinet, electronic, voice) and explore how the images work with live performance.
I'm interested in making an abstract, portable filmmaking version of e-merge - so these sequences have been compiled with that in mind. Sophia's excited about triggering images through her own movement/ableton, so something interactive on stage is also on the cards...
Meanwhile, pop along to the first local gigs...
I'm interested in making an abstract, portable filmmaking version of e-merge - so these sequences have been compiled with that in mind. Sophia's excited about triggering images through her own movement/ableton, so something interactive on stage is also on the cards...
Meanwhile, pop along to the first local gigs...
Friday, 27 February 2009
testing time
... there's a lot about time in e-merge, but that's for another post.
Postcard 2 is ready for print.
Today was test-time for e-merge at the Pervasive Media Studio, with a rough version mapped into the pedestrian area at the head of the waterside and horseshoe area. Several people from UWE and the studio tried it out and gave useful feedback from their perspectives of games designers, interactive arts, IT, photography and media. Thanks!
Tomorrow's test-time in the park with a trip to London to finalise maps, regions, active areas and where the content will be 'hidden' as well as test out and document a few other bits & pieces.
Postcard 2 is ready for print.How do you get one?
Come and try the mediascape!
Today was test-time for e-merge at the Pervasive Media Studio, with a rough version mapped into the pedestrian area at the head of the waterside and horseshoe area. Several people from UWE and the studio tried it out and gave useful feedback from their perspectives of games designers, interactive arts, IT, photography and media. Thanks!
Tomorrow's test-time in the park with a trip to London to finalise maps, regions, active areas and where the content will be 'hidden' as well as test out and document a few other bits & pieces.
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Music for e-merge: Laura Harrison with Sarah Mosses
'Park: City: Sound... '
Laura Harrison is a Brighton based composer and sound artist. A recent graduate from Sussex University in 2008 with a BA in Music, Laura is currently taking a year out teaching and composing before embarking on an Mmus in Music Composition at Trinity College of Music, London. Laura is an active musician and currently plays in a number of ensembles including CoMA Sussex and Sussex Jazz Orchestra. 
Composed by Laura Harrison with Sarah Mosses
Laura Harrison is a Brighton based composer and sound artist. A recent graduate from Sussex University in 2008 with a BA in Music, Laura is currently taking a year out teaching and composing before embarking on an Mmus in Music Composition at Trinity College of Music, London. Laura is an active musician and currently plays in a number of ensembles including CoMA Sussex and Sussex Jazz Orchestra.
Sarah Mosses is the Innovation Programmer and Live Music Coordinator for BEV. She studied Music and Film Studies at the University of Sussex, and this composition with fellow graudate Laura shows her interest in both these mediums. She is currently in development for a documentary on the modernisation of Ballet. 
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Music for e-merge: Jane Harwood
Jane is a multi instrumentalist (guitar, bass, flute, harp) who plays in two bands, teaches and works as a community musician and mentor.
The soundtrack for the e-merge walks has been created with the help of Russ Stanley, sonic artist and fiddler.
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Music for e-merge: Kukicha
Kukicha is a new all female Bristol based Electronica/Modern Classical band. Delicate, unsettling and menacingly beautiful compositions written for flute/oboe/voice and technology. www.myspace.com/kukichauk
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Sound and Image
The way the soundtrack worked in Something More was essentially a choice of music to listen to. After a short spoken intro to the piece, explaining what to expect, health & safety etc. , the walker seleted music from a choice of 3. They could reselect immediately, so hopefully noone would get 'stuck' listening to something they really didn't fancy. The music was the soundtrack to their walk, and then became the soundtrack to their film as they watched it.
It worked well, so I'm using that format for e-merge, but with more variation in the styles.
Following BEV's theme of celebrating women as makers, I invited 3 women musician/composers to contribute music for the mediascape: Sophia Loizou with Kukicha, Jane Harwood and Sarah Mosses.
The brief is for approx 15 minutes, in some way relevent and suitable for St James' Park, for a public audience includng families. The music needs to work without images as well as with images, and expect to work with images in an unexpected/unpredictable way! The film could start (and end) at any point within the soundtrack, and continue for any duration - so the 15 minute piece needs to work as a loop also. It will be played through headphones, which could be open (ie. letting in surrounding sounds), closed (blocking out the outside sounds) or anything people may bring with them...
Challenging? Unusual? Innovative? Exciting!
All three women have been fantastic and responded by creating or adapting music especially for the project, working collaboratively with others to compose, play and record some wonderfully visual sounds. Thankyou girls!
I'm really delighted with the music, and can't wait to try it out with a few test images actually in the park...
There will be more about the musicians shortly. Meanwhile, the music will also impact on the video editing and photo-composition.
With Something More I tried to find a new way of combining images, thinking about the attributes of locative media, gps, and how that is very different to TV, cinema etc. Using a different relationship to space, perception and time to try and build a short film that could have been made by a locative medium.
The Bath international music festival celebrated it's 60th birthday last year and as part of that a 60 second challenge was launched, for film-makers to use music available through the festival, and create short film celebrating music, 60 or the area.
'Whitesheet: 6 walks' was my response.
Tom Ellis' piece Magnetic Spheres was not what I would have previously imagined as music for Whitesheet, but when I heard it had a similar quality of energy as the landscape, totally loved it, and knew it just had to be the soundtrack! So that was the structure to combine photos and video from 6 walks on Whitesheet into an experimental short film.
Having heard the music submitted for e-merge, I'm putting my previous ideas about image compilation on one side, and going to try out 3 short films led by pure response to the sound (in the context of the park/images gathered), and see what happens... could be a total sidetrack not to be used, or could lead into something interesting for the mediascape... we'll see what emerges!
It worked well, so I'm using that format for e-merge, but with more variation in the styles.
Following BEV's theme of celebrating women as makers, I invited 3 women musician/composers to contribute music for the mediascape: Sophia Loizou with Kukicha, Jane Harwood and Sarah Mosses.
The brief is for approx 15 minutes, in some way relevent and suitable for St James' Park, for a public audience includng families. The music needs to work without images as well as with images, and expect to work with images in an unexpected/unpredictable way! The film could start (and end) at any point within the soundtrack, and continue for any duration - so the 15 minute piece needs to work as a loop also. It will be played through headphones, which could be open (ie. letting in surrounding sounds), closed (blocking out the outside sounds) or anything people may bring with them...
Challenging? Unusual? Innovative? Exciting!
All three women have been fantastic and responded by creating or adapting music especially for the project, working collaboratively with others to compose, play and record some wonderfully visual sounds. Thankyou girls!
I'm really delighted with the music, and can't wait to try it out with a few test images actually in the park...
There will be more about the musicians shortly. Meanwhile, the music will also impact on the video editing and photo-composition.
With Something More I tried to find a new way of combining images, thinking about the attributes of locative media, gps, and how that is very different to TV, cinema etc. Using a different relationship to space, perception and time to try and build a short film that could have been made by a locative medium.
The Bath international music festival celebrated it's 60th birthday last year and as part of that a 60 second challenge was launched, for film-makers to use music available through the festival, and create short film celebrating music, 60 or the area.
'Whitesheet: 6 walks' was my response.
Tom Ellis' piece Magnetic Spheres was not what I would have previously imagined as music for Whitesheet, but when I heard it had a similar quality of energy as the landscape, totally loved it, and knew it just had to be the soundtrack! So that was the structure to combine photos and video from 6 walks on Whitesheet into an experimental short film.
Having heard the music submitted for e-merge, I'm putting my previous ideas about image compilation on one side, and going to try out 3 short films led by pure response to the sound (in the context of the park/images gathered), and see what happens... could be a total sidetrack not to be used, or could lead into something interesting for the mediascape... we'll see what emerges!
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