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Matthew Davidson  

#5

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1991
analogue tape piece

John Rimmer  

A Vocalise for Einstein

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1991
electronic music

John Young  

Allting Runt Omkring

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1998
8-channel electroacoustic

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    8 -channel electroacoustic
  • Programme Note

    This work was composed on the 8-channel digital sound system at EMS Stockholm while I was a visiting composer there in 1998. The piece grew out of my encounters with the Stockholm soundscape, which surprised me with its clarity and vitality – both above and below the ground… the chimes of church clocks audible across very large distances…the tunnelbana (subway) with its caverns hewn out of granite, where even quiet shuffles of feet are etched with clarity… skaters on the open air ice rink… footsteps on granite stairs and creaking floors. Along with these I integrated a number of field recordings made in my own country… a fairground, with ghost train and house of mirrors… wind gently resonating a flagpole… I found many of these sounds so captivating that I realised I was carrying impressions of them in my head, and frequently imagining the presence of one sound ‘inside’ another as I was hearing them (both in and out of the studio). ‘Allting Runt Omkring’ attempts to project some of that sensation by creating a new context in which field recordings from the natural world are integrated and transformed. All sound sources in the work are environmental in origin. I work exclusively with my own field recordings, since for me it is important to have a connection with the original context of my sound sources. In this piece the context in which sounds are heard and shaped was an important stimulus, while the tape medium allows me to forge new contextual relationships for the sound. For example, in Stockholm there are a large number of churches and public buildings in the main city area, especially Gamla Stan (the old town), but also across to the islands of Kungsholmen and Soder. At quarter hour intervals the clocks of Stockholm chime, and from a single vantage point one can hear an astonishing depth in the soundscape. The Stockholm tunnelbana also has a great acoustical presence and range of sounds, and in this piece I have tried to fuse sounds of ‘above’ and ‘below’ ground (for instance by linking the bell resonances to the tunnelbana, or by taking the noise of trains to the ice rink).

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Philip Dadson  

An Archaeology of Stones

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1996
a sound/performance with 'song stones' and sound stories

John Rimmer  

An Inner Voice

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1991
electroacoustic work

John Rimmer  

Beyond the saying

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 1990
electronic music

Chris Cree Brown  

Cellocution

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1996
sound installation

Juliet Palmer  

Citrus

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1993
for tape, voice, food blender, electronics, grapefruit and slides

David Downes  

Creature

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1992
dance score for tape