real-time/non real-time
 ELECTRONIC MUSIC Festival
 16-19 June 2005

 

 

 

Stück / piece Komponist / composer

Liberté 
 Liberté is the first movement of Freedom Fries, a suite of three pieces inspired by my summer's travelling. After visiting Rouen, Silverstone, New York and Washington it was my intention to write some short sonic postcards exploring not only the sounds of the immediate environments, but also the complex poitical implications of French fries in the USA being renamed ‘freedom fries’, because of the lack of French support for the war in Iraq. Liberté evokes the sounds and sights of Rouen: music and pictures at the cathedral, a mass, and the gardens of Monet. The end of the work starts to suggest the unease of the following movements. Liberté was completed in my home studio, in the studios at the Technology Innovation Centre, and mastered at the University of Birmingham.

 Andrew Bourbon is currently course director for Sound Engineering and Production for UCE at the TIC campus, Millennium Point. He is also in the final stages of his PhD in composition with Jonty Harrison, and looks forward to starting new research in free field acoustics once the PhD is finished (assuming that day arrives!).

 

 

Fugitive (2004)
adj.

1 fleeing; that runs or has run away.

2 transient, fleeting; of short duration.

3 (of literature) of passing interest, ephemeral.

4 flitting, shifting.

 Alex Harker (born Bristol 1983) is a composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music. More recently he has also begun work in the field of interactive composition. After deciding in his teens that he wanted to pursue a career as a composer, he studied with then Bristol-based composer Gwyn Pritchard whose strong modernist tendencies left a lasting impression on him. He then studied at the University of Birmingham under Vic Hoyland, Jonty Harrison, David Berezan and Erik Oña, achieving his BMus degree in 2004. He is currently studying for an MPhil in composition with Dr Scott Wilson at the University of Birmingham. 

 

 

(Un)folding (2004) 
(Un)folding, for electroacoustic sounds, has sounds of paper as its main source material. The action of folding paper was not only a way of producing the sounds but also offered an idea for the structure of the composition. The idea is that the other side of a sheet of paper is revealed when one folds it. By folding it several times it is possible to obtain several shapes or forms that can be subjected to further transformations. Likewise, (Un)folding can be thought of as showing different points of view of an object that moves and changes its form during the unfolding of time.

 Daniel Barriero is a composer and an active member of BEAST (Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre). His works are mainly in the electroacoustic field, comprising both acousmatic and mixed compositions (for instrument and live electronics) and also soundtracks for short films and videos. His works have been presented in concerts and conferences in the UK, Brazil, Colombia and Spain. Short-films for which he was one of the soundtrack composers have gained recognition in European and Latin American film festivals. Since January 2003 he is doing a PhD in Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Birmingham (UK) with Jonty Harrison, sponsored by the Brazilian Government through the Capes Foundation. He holds a BA (Hons) in Composition and Conducting from the Sao Paulo State University - UNESP, Brazil (1997) and a Master in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo - PUC/SP, Brazil (2000).
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