RNCM pop music course

Here’s a little movie I made for the pop music course at the Royal Northern College of Music.

The Shnth Comes to England – with Peter Blasser

I am extremely proud of this documentary that I made about instrument designer/luthier Peter Blasser, of Ciat-Lonbarde and Shbobo. I really wanted to depict the person I got to know over those few days–his sense of humor, his intelligence, and of course I wanted to showcase the new instrument he’d just developed. That’s why he was in England, in fact: to lead a workshop at the University of Huddersfield where the participants built and programmed their own Shnths. Rod organized bringing Peter over with his school (and P.A. Tremblay specifically), and the rest is history. Peter Blasser came to England. Enjoy the documentary. I really enjoyed making it.

Peter Blasser:
shbobo.net — Peter’s digital side, and where you can get your own Shnth instrument.
ciat-lonbarde.net — Peter’s analog side, and where you can get a multitude of his other instruments.

Sam & Rod

It’s Sam Andreae’s birthday today so I made him THIS! Based on the battle pieces he and Rod have been working on.

As reference, this is what a battle piece is:

Strikethrough Me and You (part 1) in Sam’s Basement from Sam Andreae on Vimeo.

Pulse

Ryoko Akama had her composition performed by Sumie Kent, master koto player. I made this video of that performance. Beautiful koto sounds.

Locative Audio

Ricardo Climent asked me to document the locative audio event hosted by Novars at the University of Manchester. This is the result. I gathered footage over two days–the practice/set-up day and the actual day. A lot of cool stuff that gave me ideas for my own cool stuff down the line–and specifically from having seen Atau Tanaka’s performance. Also Alex Allred’s essay was really poetic (here’s a link to that text in full). If you would like more information about the event there’s this from NoTours.

Locative Audio – a film by Angela Guyton for locativeaudio.org from NOVARS Research Centre on Vimeo.