Paul Adams

Im coming to the end of my research project (see projects tab) and feel its time to start thinking about something new. I have quite a few creative ideas and of course a new compositional tool, so Im thinking of an album length selection of tracks incorporating the following ideals:

\Raw and Visceral
\No synth lines or obvious patch sounds, melody to be fractious and intertwined with the surrounding sounds
\Heavy use of the human voice as the source for many of the sounds
\No IDM style skittery beats, its been done to death now!
\Non referential if entirely possible

First fruits of this is the new track “Morality Cycles” which can be played on the media player on the sounds screen.

The Open Ear event was a success. Unfortunately Matt had to pull out of the evening but otherwise there were excellent performances from Joe Banks/Disinformation and Ampersand. I played an improvisation piece in the interlude between Joe and Ampersand, it was a useful exercise as it suggested pointers on the things to improve with the software. The next event planned is in March 11. Garrett Lynch is curating the next event entitled “Cinema” hopefully all being well “Semiconductor” will be playing. Ive got a lot of work to do to get my software ready for next event!

For more information about Open Ear related stuff go to:

openear.wordpress.com

Myself and Matt Wright were on the Dominic King show last Wednesday on Radio Kent. The interview was more about the new Sonic Arts programme that Matt will soon be running rather than Open Ear, though this does get a mention. I created a sound art piece especially for the show using the some of Matt’s speech.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2008/01/30/sonic_art_feature.shtml

We that are Open Ear host another event on Tuesday 5th February entitled “Noise” . Its my turn for curation this time round and I have invited Ampersand and Disinformation to play for us. Ampersand are no strangers to Open Ear having had one of their multimedia DVD’s played at last years “PrifArc” Event, this will be the first time however that they play live for us. Disinformation is the pseudonym of the artist Joe Banks who along with Strange Attractor performed the piece “National Grid” using live mains electricity.

I hope to perform with a preliminary version of my audio-visual software, though many of the features are not currently operational. I am hoping to have most of the quirks fixed by the “Cinema” Event in March along with the new visual front end.

http://www.Openear.wordpress.com