Some pieces from Melbourne 60x60
Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 9:04PM Melbourne 60x60 (organized by myself and Susan Frykberg) manifested itself at the 2014 Australasian Computer Music Conference in early July. Just today, a wonderful review of the Conference and 60x60 in particular by Peter Farnan appeared in Crikey's Daily Review. http://dailyreview.crikey.com.au/set-the-sound-controls-for-the-heart-of-your-brain/ For the folks who read the review, and also for the rest of you, here are a few pieces from the 60x60 sets, two by me, two by Susan Frykberg, one by Catherine Schieve, and one by Y H Ippo. Each piece a minute or less. The notes under the pieces are from the 60x60 program. Enjoy!
Warren Burt: Audio Fingerpainting
Made entirely in the program High C, using a touch screen computer, all the sounds are drawn by hand onto the screen. Fingerpainting of sound allows kinds of sounds not attainable by other means. The hand is quicker than the ear.
Warren Burt: 8 Tone Bop for J K Randall
Microtonal algorithmic hexachordal chord progression in 8 tone equal temperament made by drawing probability distributions by hand. In memoriam J K Randall, composer and deep musical thinker.
Susan Frykberg: SDF One
Composer from New Zealand who lived in Canada for many years, Susan is now based in Melbourne, and is one of the organizers of Melbourne 60x60.
Susan Frykberg: SDF Two
Composer from New Zealand who lived in Canada for many years, Susan is now based in Melbourne, and is one of the organizers of Melbourne 60x60.
Catherine Schieve: Laying on of Hands
Animal magnetism for human electrostatic energy and Anakie chicken orchestra. Quasi-voodoo experiences across media and species; the hand as medium; micro electrical storm; feathered expressivity. Catherine Schieve, inter-media artist, lives and works in the Goldfields region of Central Victoria. This work is informed in some way by her time visiting Umbanda ceremonies in Brazil.
Y H Ippo: Isopathologus IX
Y. H. Ippo, originally from Woonona, NSW, now lives and works in the Goldfields region of central Victoria, where, using the latest technology, he continues to compose Complexist New Age music with childlike insouciance. Isopathologus IX is one of a series of chamber works which explore juxtapositions of different emotional and structural nano-mini-worlds.
