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Oliver Hancock

Year: 2009
live algorithm which interacts with an improvising human performer

Instrumentation
laptop, microphone
Programme Note

chor-respondent is a computer program that interacts with a live performer. The interaction is managed purely through sound, there is no complicated MIDI equipment or electronic sensors – just a microphone. chor-respondent listens to the sounds that the performer plays, and responds by producing sounds of its own. It builds up chords based on the performer’s recent notes, and any notes that it is currently playing. The result is swelling chords of beautiful but often unexpected harmony. A performance lasts as long as the live improviser wishes.

The program had its first performance at the Songs for Dynamic Systems concert organized by the Live Algorithms for Music network. The performance was with Finn Peters on flute, at Café Oto in London, August 6th 2009.
Availability
- Hancock: chor-respondent; pure data file
  
  Part - recorded | CD
- Oliver Hancock: chor-respondent
  
  Digital sound file - MP3

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 1994
a scripted and improvised work for video/ performance

Year: 2005
electroacoustic

Programme Note

The Celestials was Alison Isadora’s first musical response to the Wild Creations residency programme after heading back to Amsterdam. The composer spent November and December 2005 in Bannockburn, Central Otago collecting sound material. Through her research and connection with local artist, Odelle Morshuis, Alison uncovered the stories and sounds of the land. In her searching account, Re:Connections, 19th Century Chinese gold miners are juxtaposed with thier contemporary Chinese e-waste workers.

The premiere of The Celestials was a semi-improvised live electronics work in collaboration with Nathalie Latham, an Australian film-maker based in Paris, which was performed in the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam in January 2006 to an audience of several hundreds. Sound sources included sounds from the Bannockburn sluicings and traditional Chinese chamber music.