sonic surrounds

had a fantastic time at ACMC 06 where Somaya and I (as Metasense) had an 4 channel electroacoustic composition played in concert.  Our piece, Tourist x2 utilised ambisonic field recordings, soundhack drones, granular synthesis, and discrete placement of processed samples.

Here are the program notes:

Title: “Tourist x2″
Composed by:  Metasense (Somaya Langley and Nick Mariette)
Duration: 9′03″

Liner Note

Engaging in the sonic landscape, yet silently detached, existing on the outer.  Desiring immersion in a foreign culture, yet lacking the context to comprehend it past the surface.  Tourist x2 explores the sonic atmosphere of a Barcelonian summer, drawing the listener to observe the timbre and rhythms of voices, other visitors and prosaic events.
Ambisonic field recordings are mixed with processed extracts and sonic events are isolated as discrete motifs, playing with space and personal memory as it unfolds to the tourists’ ears. Tourist x2 employs a variety of spatial forms including the diffuse field, mono, and discrete panned sources, which together, mutually accentuate the gamut of the personal soundscape from the realistic to the impressionistic.

By Jem Finer, Score For A Hole In The Ground is an aleatoric musical instrument that uses nature to play water drips onto tuned percussion at the bottom of a large resonant cavity dug into English woodlands, amplified and released to the surface by a large steel horn, reminiscent of old gramophone horns.

http://www.scoreforaholeintheground.org/

Electrohype and Article

Two calls for participations for Scandinavian new media exhibitions later this year are currently out: Article in Stavanger, Norway and Electrohype at Lund, Sweden.

(from lostblog)