![]() ![]() The acoustic material is modeled, redesigned and sculpted to shape new pieces with common source material. Realized the line A "electroacoustically" usable for the performance with a percussionist (original version of the score), this electronic material is elaborated and re-organized to give shape to different acousmatic pieces. The periods are delimited by reverberated sound events and granulated events. I then created a layering of the resulting “voices “ reaching the overlap of 28 independent voices (Digital Tracks) divided into periods. Cage's piece 7’10.554” for a percussionist, specifically the electronic realization of a voice/line (A - All Others) of the score, left (freely) interpretable by Cage who did not exclude a realization ( freely) with electronic/electroacoustic devices supports already in 1956. Notes: The dynamic and temporal structure of this work is inspired by the J. ![]() In 2021, she joined the Nanosonic Stories research team within the Nano Institute, University of Sydney, with whom she will begin a PhD developing sound-based education tools in late 2022. Two acousmatic works produced during her Masters were awarded Highly Commended in the 2020 Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Competition, Switzerland. She recently completed a Master of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she now lectures in composition and music technology subjects alongside tutoring in design and Museum and Heritage Studies within the wider University. In January 2018, Alexis was awarded the National Council of Women’s Australia Day Prize for her research undertaken during her Honours year on the visibility and practice of female electroacoustic composers. While studying a Bachelor of Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Sydney, Alexis was awarded People’s Choice Award and First Place in the 20 University of Sydney Verge Awards respectively for her acousmatic works. Alexis’ work has been broadcast in Australia, the US, France, Scotland and Scandinavia, as well as featured on New Weird Australia’s Collapse Theories (2022), Solitary Wave (2019) and RMN Classical’s Electroacoustic and Beyond II (2017). While her principal interest lies in composing fixed-media acousmatic music, she has also composed soundtracks for animation, short film, theatre, dance, and in 2022 has produced podcast music for companies ARN, Amplify, Sunny Studios and Shameless Media. ![]() As the work continues, my metaphorical eyes adjust to the new surroundings, and a swirling ecosystem of possibilities (perhaps presented in the form of flying bugs!) light up the night.Ībout the Artist: Alexis Weaver is a composer and educator based in Sydney, Australia. While perhaps not evident in the final structure, the development of the work was guided by the image of a long, straight highway stretching into a dark night. I started composing this work at a time of transition in my life. A metaphor, perhaps, for the remote intimacy of internet messaging and telephone calls. In the context of the work, they dip into the foreground and then quickly swerve out into the distance. These sounds were captured close to the microphone. Many of these sounds are made with the mouth: whispers, consonants, clicks, tiny pitched fragments which are looped and shaped to create writhing new textures. Notes: A Mouthful of Locusts is named for the buzzy, insectile sounds which abound in the work. Recent work includes Path 99 (with Grayson Cooke), which premiered in the 2021 NZ International Film Festival, and VEX (2020), a live modular synth performance for the City Gallery Wellington’s Terminal exhibition. He is a composer and sound artist whose output encompasses electronic, acoustic, visual and textual media, and often intermeshes these. Dugal McKinnon is the Deputy Director of NZSM and Co-Director of the Lilburn Studios for Electronic Music. Notes: A generative soundscape, for icosahedral loudspeaker, originating from a recording of roosting sparrows and nesting in the aural architecture of the Upper Chartwell Gallery.Ībout the Artist: Dr. ![]()
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