Abstract:
“Signal is a fixed media piece inspired by a couple of areas of interest that I started to explore musically during my years as Creative New Zealand /Jack C. Richards Composer-in-Residence at the New Zealand School of Music in 2012-13...One is simply the sound of language, especially its intriguing fragmentary/ fluid character. The other is voice as a carrier of these strange representations of meaning and experience between the inner and outer world...Much of Signal is constructed from a large, electronically-generated library of micro- edited glitch fragments. These are grouped into ‘pseudo-sentences’ and propelled across various spatial trajectories. The results are carried over into an emerging, simulated world of chattering birds, insects and animals, and are accompanied by a range of emphatic human vocalisations inspired by sports games.”