Tinpark, Compositions

In Formation

Performed by Laurie Crump — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:48:51 +0100

Information I for Bass recorder and CD. Performed by Laurie Crump.

Spectral Tourist

Martin Parker — Thu, 18 May 2006 00:26:38 +0200

Trojan Women introduction

Martin Parker — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:15:35 +0200

This is the audio introduction to Trojan Women. There is an ambient soundscape which errupts into a transcription of a speech by Lt. Tim Collins on the eve of the Iraq War. The first scene is also entirely sonic and is represented by the sound of the gods, Poseidon and Pallas Athena. The end of the track is an example of sounds that sit beneath the text as it is acted. [img_assist|nid=154|title=|desc=Kate Dickie as Andromache Itxaso Moreno as Cassandra|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=95]

chiaroscuro_test_opening

tinpark — Wed, 17 May 2006 01:40:34 +0200

[img_assist|nid=145|align=right|width=100|height=71] Chiaroscuro Pentimenti is a collaboration between poet Jennifer Williams, composer Martin Parker and visual artist Anna Chapman applying the visual art concepts of chiaroscuro and pentimenti to computer-mediated performance of new music and poetry. Chiaroscuro is a method of synthesising light through casting shadow while pentimenti is about layering, where imagery is revealed beneath imagery. These terms are alive with sonic potential and we are exploring Jennifer's poetry and its re-telling through real-time sound processing methods devised from our research and generated by the voice of the poet in live performance. "Chiaroscuro: The technique of using light and shade in pictorial representation". (http://www.dictionary.com) "A word borrowed from Italian referring to the modelling of volume by depicting light and shade by contrasting them boldly." (http://www.artlex.com) "Pentimenti: An underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting, part of a painting, or original draft, that shows through, usually when the top layer of paint has become transparent with age." (http://www.dictionary.com) "These images which were supposed to be hidden often appear like ghosts -- not entirely solid. Many result from a painter's decision that a nearly finished picture needs to be altered, but the new passage is made with too thin a layer of paint. Pentimento is Italian for 'repentance.' (http://www.artlex.com) [img_assist|nid=146|title=Prntimento_hand|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=100|height=75] Project development website - http://sd.caad.ed.ac.uk/cp

Shonky Music (Henry Willis Edi

Martin Parker — Wed, 17 May 2006 13:30:33 +0200

Shonky Music performed by Simon Nieminsky on the Henry Willis organ, St Mary's music school, Edinburgh

Environment for StoneViolin

Martin Parker — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:36:53 +0200

[img_assist|nid=135|title=Stone Violin|desc= Photo by Christian Unterhuber|link=popup|align=right|width=68|height=100]The sculptures of Kassian Erhard spend most of the year in the Austrian Alps in a small village called Pillar near to the Italian border. On the mountainside Erhard creates stone 'instruments' including interpretations of trombones, saxophones, percussion and strings all carved from the indigenous rock. During the late summer of 2002, I was fortunate to spend three weeks living with the sculptor and his family and had the opportunity to write some music for his instruments. Of all the sculptures in his garden, the one that attracted my ears and eyes the most was his stone violin. Not only is the body of the instrument made of stone, so are the strings and bow. The instrument's sonic properties depend entirely upon the type of stone used to make bow and string. A gentle scrape of stone against stone reveals tones that are essentially inharmonic, scratchy and very rich in potential for analysis within the computer. The computer software is a reactive environment, which listens to the incoming sound and generates sympathetic resonances. If you feed it noise, you get purity. This piece was revised for Viol in 2003 and continues to reinvent itself based on input and the liveliness of the space in which it is played.

Helen's Theme

Martin Parker — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:21:36 +0200

Helen's theme. This sound was designed to introduce Helen. It represents her function as a twisted but beautiful figure. In the play she is portrayed as a wicked bitch and someone who carries mythically sexual powers over men, useing them not only to her advantage but to deliberately disenfranchise, abuse and weaken other women.

Trojan Women - Nothingness

Martin Parker — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:31:51 +0200

This is the music used to describe nothingness and a feeling of dispair, lament and justifiable self pity. These feelings are expressed by Hecuba as she learns of the Greek's intentions towards Andromache's son.

Autoroute

Martin Parker — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:06:54 +0200

Auto-route begins with a source, what follows is an automated response to this data that continues to eat itself until we turn the machine off, the computer crashes or the feedback loops inside the system result in silence or white noise. Auto-route is an attempt to hear what the computer thinks. The piece runs on the machine’s own terms, makes its own decisions based on criteria that it invents as time passes. Like most improvisations, there is a moment when the input is considered and contemplated but shortly after this period, the machine begins to explore material dynamically, chewing on its own matter, quickly becoming self-referential and eventually running out of energy or coruscating into maximal debris. Auto Route has been performed in several versions. A version was made for Video Artist Rob Kennedy and performed at Machinista in Glasgow in 2004. Two other versions have been made and performed without the composer present. Once in Belfast as part of the Sonorities festival on a tourist boat trip, the other was performed in Newcastle by Mark Summers (Viol) and the Pallindrome dance company. The recording presented here was generated from some glitch provided by Mark Summers (Viol).

Trombone Fanfare Duo

Martin Parker and John Kenny — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:45:31 +0100

This is short trombone fanfare made with two versions of "Virtual John". "Virtual John" is a system that generates material from structures collected from the Sound Library.

Environment for Stone Violin - Live

MARTIN PARKER, MARK SUMMERS — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:14:07 +0200

Live performance of Environment software system with Mark Summers on viola da gamba. Part of live concert performed at the Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh on the 13th Feb 2007. Recorded by Sean Williams and Yann-Loic Seznec.