Cape Sound Stories: Background Research & Conceptual Grounding: Lacuna: In ‘Coping with the Past: creative perspectives on conservation and restoration’ (2010), Pedro Memelsdorff describes the various musicological approaches towards interpreting damaged, deteriorated and decayed musical manuscripts and scores. The voids, gaps left by lost notes and phrases, are referred to as lacuna. These cavities are […]
AFO Aeolian Flying Organ Project Proposal by Nathaniel Mann Overview: Aeolian Flying Organ (AFO) proposes an innovative new instrument: a flying, playable organ, harnessing the breath of the wind, and giving voice to the power of nature. The AFO offers musicians and composers the chance to duet with our changing climate, and through sound and […]
SF Cody: A Rushmoor Epic by Nathaniel Mann Commissioned by New Dimensions, SF Cody: A Rushmoor Epic was created by sound artist and performer Nathaniel Mann. As part of the process he researched Rushmoor’s rich history, focusing on its contribution to the development of aviation, and the more recent cultural links with the area’s Nepalese community. SF […]
Sound & Music Commission for the Museum of London Archive. I was commissioned to composer new music for a site specific event in the warehouses of The museum of London Archive. For the event, I produce 3 outcomes: 1- A sound installation to be explored by torchlight, with vibrational speakers turning the glass display cabinets […]
Soliloquy: The Sound Portal, designed by ARUP in association with Sound & Music, is a dedicated listening ambisonic listening room which was erected in Trafalgar Square. Soliloquy: Ambisonic Composition: Steam train frenetics, wheezing pipe organs, pet-shop cacophony and rolling shanties. The work takes advantage of the unique potentials of Ambisonic recording to weave a thread […]
Rough Music was developed as part of my Embedded Composer residency at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, it explores Deeply rooted traditions interlinking noise and social control; creating bronze musical meat-cleavers with Swordsmith Neil Burridge. The cleavers themselves have been incorporated into the instrument collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, and used by The […]
Pigeon Whistles is the title given to an expansive body of work which encompasses ethnomusicological research, musical performance, instrument design and construction, sound curation, storytelling and a series of encounters and personal relationships. As Embedded Composer in Residence at the Pitt Rivers Museum & Oxford Contemporary Music it has been my remit to respond to […]