GPUD: Recent Episodes
GPUDviolnTendancies
Some bits of experiments and tracks of GPUD/Violintendancies hannah and steve scutt with Content from hannah thompson's residency funded by the Leverhulme trust at Senate House Library - plus and some recordings of Defacato who were Scutt, Blackie, Collingwood.
deeply personal song that features an actual deer that i actually saw on the side of a hill by the sea (cf concluding lyrics). we both stood looking at each other, below the long curved horizon of trees and open sky, on the ridge way above weymouth, frozen in a timeless moment which inspired me to write this. i guess, to be honest, against my true nature, i have to accept that it is a common-in-the-garden love song to insect-boy
Inspired by Orwell's 1984 with diy audio electronics, analog synthesis, sounds recordings, music and text from The Memory Hole Machine Installation archive, processing voices from the past and the present, with the telescreens from Oceania in transmit mode from the Ministry of Hope and Fear, Senate House, with field recordings from the basement to the flagpole. Manipulating time with gestural controllers, in interlocking, multi-scaled layers as the consequences of 2016 are revealed and the clock strikes 13.
An excerpt from immersive soundscape, in a sonification of senate house library, using a hexaphonic sound system. The first revelation of the Memory Hole Machine, through live reading using an optical tape punch reader, converted to synthetic speech in real time.
A sample from Hacking The Silence: a sonification of senate house library from Being Human 2016, the Memory Hole Machine is revealed.
SHL sonification Mix in Week four, Wednesday March 09, played over the speakers in the studio, with SHL-Fragmental uploaded with mono tracks, output over headphones or a separate pair of speakers, a set-up that was adopted through the residency, with environmental sounds representing the building within which the sonic footprint of the range of human activities or technology can be directed through the soundfield with independent control.