INTER/actions will be a three-day symposium and mini-festival
focusing on performance and interaction in electronic music.
The aim is to provide an environment to exchange ideas and instigate
collaborations for composers, performers, sound artists and
music technologists interested in the role of the performer
in electronic music, whether in the traditional sense, or
audience-as-performer. http://www.bangor.ac.uk/music/interactions.php.en
Enhanced Phenotype (2012)
interactive score (iScore) for multiple computer, audiovisual
realtime composition for open ensemble
by Andreas Weixler & Se-Lien Chuang
Chuang/Weixler + all-stars ensemble (Tremblay, Hayes, Pestova, Essl,
Eigner, students et al)
Pierre A Tremblay, bass
Lauren Hayes, prepared piano
Xenia Pestova, toy piano
Karlheinz Essl, m@ze°2
Se-Lien Chuang, bass recorder, interactive visuals
Andreas Weixler, iScore, SpectraSonic
Faye Snowdon, flute
Sioned Roberts, clarinet
Richard Eigner, percussion
An interactive score turns the concert into a live-event of a very
special kind:
The score is assembled on stage within an algorithmic realtime
process based on mainly graphic notation. Performer and composer
process an interactive score and exert mutual influence on it. Each
performer or each group of performers has a computer on stage as an
interactive score. Each computer can act independently but also as a
swarm lead by an interactive conductor as the computers
automatically link into a data exchange via WLAN. At any one time
each computer can either be a conductor or taking orders. In
addition to this a realtime computer system creates a constant
stream of ambience in the electroacoustic space. An abstract visual
processing of live cams as well as prepared material interact
accordingly to the music. In this piece unfolds a thrilling art work
of interactive composition within improvisational concepts and
audiovisual realtime computer processes.
support by ACF - Austria Culture Forum London, the Arts Division of
the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture,
Province of Upper Austria, Province of Styria, City of Graz, City of
Linz
VIDEO:
In and
Out – for Menai Singing Bridge (2012)
for singing bridge, toy piano, bass recorder and electronics
Bangor 2012
by Jodi Rose, Andreas Weixler, Se-Lien Chuang, Xenia Pestova
Photo 1 Xenia Pestova, Photo
2& 3 Haruka Hirayama
Singing Menai Bridge –
Musical Composition/Improvisation: "In and Out” – for Menai Singing
Bridge
Location: Bridgemaster´s House, Menai Suspension Bridge
Date: 10th April, 2012
Time: 15:30 – 17:00
Jodi Rose, singing bridge,
concept Andreas Weixler, spectra
sonic realtime process, musical concept Se-Lien Chuang, bass
recorder, musical concept Xenia Pestova toy piano
and music boxes, musical concept
A live concert on the Menai Suspension Bridge, with bass recorder,
toy piano and spectra sonic system.
Amplifying the cables and structure of the Menai Suspension Bridge,
Jodi Rose invites local and visiting musicians to improvise with and
reinterpret the sound and space of the bridge in this unique
setting.
SITE: Jodi Rose invited musicians at INTER/actions: Symposium to
improvise with live sounds from the Menai Suspension bridge in a
concert at the bridge master's house, a small space on the bridge.
AUDIO: The sounds of the bridge will be processed in real time with
multichannel audio (multilayer granular synthesis, Spectral Delay,
FFT Filtering) by Andreas Weixler using his Spectra Sonic System,
with instrumental improvisation by Se-Lien Chuang on bass recorder
and Xenia Pestova on XP toy piano and music boxes.
The Meinai Suspension Bridge, which sound we have processed in
realtime, is a very special historic construction:
„The Menai Suspension Bridge (Welsh: Pont Grog y Borth) is a
suspension bridge between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of
Wales. Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, it was the
first modern suspension bridge in the world.“ (Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menai_Suspension_Bridge)
LIVE AUDIO DOCUMENTATION:
live
recordings from the performance - total time 59 minutes.
Menai14.mp3
at 16:46 o´clock -
duration 15 min 31 sec
Menai10.mp3
at 16:11 o´clock -
duration 11 min 04 sec
Menai8.mp3
at 15:23 o´clock - duration 12 min 41 sec
Menai4.mp3
at 15:35 o´clock -
duration 11 min 17 sec
Menai3.mp3
at 15:23 o´clock - duration
10 min 22 sec
SINGING BRIDGES:
Every bridge is connected to all other bridges through the
vibrations in their structure, like gigantic telegraph wires
circling the globe. Singing Bridges is a state of mind that you
enter every time you cross a bridge. Transcending the outlines of
geography, crossing the bridge transports you into another dimension
of reality. Sounds from the bridge are woven into a "dark,
industrial, chaotic, strange and beautiful" composition, a
psycho-geographic performance exploring mythology and poetics of
bridges.
Amplifying the cables and bridge structure, the Bridge becomes an
instrument in an on-site intervention with live multichannel audio
processing and instrumental improvisation, taking us on a mysterious
journey through a suddenly unfamiliar urban landscape. Listening to
the strange music of the bridge and Spectra Sonic System is an aural
glimpse into the inexpressible, the intangible. Opening a space
between where we live and where we dream, suspended across the
threshold into another state...
Jodi Rose (AU/DE): Singing
Bridge (bridge amplification, concept, live bridge sounds)
Andreas Weixler (A):
Multichannel realtime sound processing (musical concept,
Spectra Sonic System)
Se-Lien Chuang (TW/A): Bass
recorder (musical concept, instrumental improvisation)
Xenia Pestova (RU/UK): XP
toy piano and music boxes (musical concept, instrumental
improvisation)
Production: Datrys/Bangor Sound City & Jodi Rose
Technician: John
