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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.

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• Oliver Hancock: chor-respondent 

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This piece explores minute physical textures through the use of a custom-made piezo-electric disc. The composer uses these malleable sounds sounds with a multi-speaker arrangement to create an introverted, microscopic sound-world to envelop the listener from all angles.

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It is easy to overlook things that seem insignificant in life and forget the need to stop and pay attention to details. We can miss the joy and importance of small things.

In this work I developed the sample of a cricket to symbolise the solitary voice of one overlooked by society. By drawing the audience’s attention to this sound, I have attempted to portray how, even though it has a small role, there is something charming and captivating about the cricket’s call and the great lessons that can be learnt from it.

I have explored this idea in three movements: a moderately slow melodic movement, a rhythmic second movement and a slower harmonic final movement.

Hannah Gilmour

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• Music at the Edge: OKTA 

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• Scullion: Peaks to Plains  Year: 2000 

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This composition is based on the quote: ‘Within every elderly person there’s a younger person wondering what happened.’ In it I have drawn on sound-scape, electro-acoustic and radio-phonic traditions to tell a story and develop the idea of ‘the young child’. To do this, I first recorded a conversation I had with my Grandmother while we were looking through an old photograph album she had. From the stories she told me, I chose four of which I felt reflected the themes of love, grief, and hope. I selected these themes as they provided a narrative joining the four individual stories. Once the stories were selected, I recorded my 10 year old sister repeating some of the lines spoken by my Grandma, and also her own ideas on what the three themes meant to her. These were then combined with various music samples and edited together on ProTools 7.

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Inspired by the Sutra of the Great Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, this is an Electro-Acoustic piece of music meant to create an enigmatic and minimalist sound-world which is ever evolving. Throughout the piece there is a constant but subtle change in mood, achieved by large washes of sound. The source material is both from live recordings and synthetic productions, manipulated mostly live, in order to generate an organic sound which never exactly repeats itself.

• Jason Long: With a View 

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