Sobre el artista
Scott Wilson
Durante las últimas tres décadas, la música y el arte sonoro de Scott Wilson ha explorado la intersección de una variedad de prácticas diferentes y, a veces, contradictorias. Combinando aspectos de composición instrumental/vocal, grabación de campo, sonido e imágenes electroacústicas multicanal inmersivas, colaboración intercultural, live coding e improvisación en obras que son cada una una solución a medida para un problema artístico único. Un interés particular en la colaboración ha dado lugar a una rica gama de productos, que incluyen trabajos interculturales e interdisciplinarios. Estas y otras piezas, que incluyen paisajes sonoros hiperreales que utilizan sonidos del mundo natural, un palimpsesto musical colaborativo sobre grabaciones clásicas de Qawwali y música creada mediante la sonificación de las colisiones de partículas del Gran Colisionador de Hadrones del CERN, se han presentado en todo el mundo. También trabajo como profesor y mentor de jóvenes artistas, es codirector de Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre y enseña en la Universidad de Birmingham en el Reino Unido.
Scott + BEAST
Lilypad Sonata – Henry Eady 8’21”
Improv (Field Recordings) – Scott Wilson ca. 10’
Synthetic RADI (reactive-affective-defensive-
What if there’s nothing you can do? (28/1/21) – Scott Wilson 11’19”
Lilypad Sonata
Henry Eady is a composer of contemporary electronic music. His works consist of acousmatic pieces and hybridised pieces, he graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2018. Now 26, he is due to graduate from his MA in sonic art and electroacoustic composition at the University of Birmingham.
Lilypad Sonata (2022) Explores an impressionistic take on the sonata-allegro form. Lilypad is a reference to Monet’s ‘Water Lillies’ whereby his impressionistic view creates an asymmetry between the scene he is painting and the painting itself.
Improv
A live coded (generated using computer algorithms that can be rewritten while they are running) improvisation making use of field recordings from Mexico, Thailand, and elsewhere.
Synthetic RADI
This piece was an exploration of synthetic material that borders on mimetic. It is based on a fictional narrative that sees the extraction and digitization of human ‘feelings of frustration’ (RADI) from a subject. This synthetic emotion is to be resold for emotional tourism.
Bio- Simon Smith is currently a technician at The University of Birmingham. In addition he is a composer, sound artist, live electronics performer and a DJ of outsider novelty music.
What if there’s nothing you can do?
An ongoing series of pieces and improvisations which make use of a single accordion sample as the basis for generating material. This one sound is torn apart and reassembled repeatedly into new harmonisations and textures, sometimes with other musicians improvising, for example most recently with musicians in Bangkok at the Pulse festival, and tomorrow with the Bogotá-based duo Efimero (Jorge Garcia and Santiago Lozano).