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[RC​-​06] Recital Centre Intermission

by Rings Around Saturn

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On the 29th of June I performed in the foyer of the Melbourne Recital Centre in support of Roger Eno, Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick. I played two sets, one prior to the main performance and a second set during the intermission.
For the 30 minute intermission, I decided to base my performance around a field recording of the foyer and the surrounding public space and in the week prior, I spent a bit of time capturing various recordings I would later use in my intermission composition.

I processed and analysed the field recordings within my computer and used certain information from the processed audio to dictate where the notes would fall on the timeline over 30 minutes. I was deliberately trying to avoid traditional rhythm in doing this, letting the chance of the audio recording of the public space decide on any rhythm that should it appear.

Once the midi information was mapped out, I went about dividing it into instruments and writing patches with Logic's Physical Modelling synth Sculpture and Native Instruments Razor, two high end modern synthesisers both chosen for their deep sonic character that I thought would make for a great full spectrum, sonic match for the modern and open space of the Recital Centre and its foyer.

Inside the Recital Centre you feel as if you are on the inside of a giant instrument and I wanted my Intermission to give off a similar feeling. I wanted to disorient the listener through a lack of traditional grid locked electronic composition with dense and sensory sound design. Instead of feeling like you are on the inside of a acoustic instrument, I want you to feel like you are on the inside of a piece of small electronics like your headphones or earbuds, a world of heavily refined design and mass production, tiny and fragile components being pressured by magnetic forces and flowing with the signal through a circuitboard.

This is deep listening ambient music, it drifts in and out and is abstract in its nature but if you are willing to let go and relax, it can be a rewarding thirty minutes that aims to dissolve the listener into a feeling in which there is no time at all.
Rory McPike

Video Teaser - youtu.be/ZqaddBbD3Js

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released January 24, 2020

Recorded Live 29th June 2019 by Rory McPike / Rings Around Saturn at
www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2019/roger-eno-and-mary-lattimore-x-juliana-barwick/

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