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Seminar at the Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University
We're delighted to be talking about (and demonstrating) Augmented Vocality at the Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University, on the 20th of October at 5pm. Edmund Hunt, Mohamed El Idrissi, Joe Wright and Lamberto Coccioli will be present (online and in person) at the 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Iontas Building, Maynooth University, at 5pm.
Chord Convolver: Augmented Vocality Composing Tools #3
Chord Convolver: Augmented Vocality Composing Tools #3 As part of the Augmented Vocality project, we have been developing various tools to support Edmund Hunt’s compositonal workflow. The second of these tools - Chord Convolver - applies mathematical processes to two input-chords, generating a third, child-chord from the originals. The idea for [...]
Notes on Pronunciation of the Augmented Vocality Texts
Notes on Pronunciation of the Augmented Vocality Texts The question of how to pronounce medieval texts is a complex one, without a single correct answer. Like translating, reading texts aloud is itself an act of interpretation with contingent assumptions the about the nature of the audience and the relationship between the voice of the poet [...]
Norse2DynamicFilter: Augmented Vocality Composing Tools #2
Norse2DynamicFilter: Augmented Vocality Composing Tools #2 As part of the Augmented Vocality project, we have been developing various tools to support Edmund Hunt’s compositonal workflow. Norse2DynamicFilter is the second of these tools, making use of Mohamed El Idrissi's Praat analyses of Norse words in the Augmented Vocality sample archive. The patch, [...]
Partial Playground: Augmented Vocality Composing Tools #1
Partial Playground: Augmented Vocality Composing Tools #1 As part of the Augmented Vocality project, we have been developing various tools to support Edmund Hunt's compositonal process. The first of these tools - Partial Playground - was developed in Max/MSP using IRCAM's [iana~] external, as well as the HISSTools Impulse Response objects from Huddersfield University. Edmunds [...]
Choosing Texts: A Composer’s Perspective
How does a creative project begin? What are the steps that will lead from an idea to its realisation? There are as many answers to this question as there are works of art, be they musical compositions, poems, staged productions, or digital media. In the case of Augmented Vocality, our practice-based research methodology provides [...]
Different Islands
Different Islands by Edmund Hunt, for dancer, string quartet and live electronics, began as a project to investigate creative approaches to an Old English text known as ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’. By embedding the untranslated text within disparate elements of musical composition, dance and live electronics, the project seeks to explore the text through its thematic [...]
Still Life
Still Life is a new work by Yixuan Zhao, realised in two separate versions. The piano solo version was commissioned by Spanish pianist Laura Farré Rozada, M4C Ph.D candidate at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and was officially released by Seed Music in January 2021, as part of Laura's album 'Nimbus', with the title Still Life [...]
A-D-S-R
In recent months Matthew has been developing the installation A-D-S-R, an interactive haptic installation that explores how photographs—a medium which ordinarily only affect a single sense—can be turned into sound and haptic feedback via the use of a SUBPAC. After the loss of his father in April 2019, Matthew investigated how mapping image to [...]