resident

resident is a composition for live performance of the ELKA organ and a room. It was premiered by Matthews at KINDL braurerie, Neukölln, Berlin 25.4.19 and was commissiond by Gruntaler mobile project for contemporary music and sound art Berlin.

An evolution of Matthews 2017 composition ‘foreigner’, it uses a sonification of the word  resident to create a specific sequence of notes.  Advise using full range stereo speakers. There is nothing to watch, it is for listening.

 

R      SEEK                            —>F#3

E      EXIT                             —>E2

S      DEPARTURE              —>Efl2

I       TRAVEL                       —>G3

D     NOMAD                        —>C#3

E      ENTRY                          —>E2

N     IMMIGRANT               —>G#2

T      RESIDENT                  —>F3

 

concept  ~  draw a line, a border, then construct or build that line using blocks of sound. Then make and attempt to move other sounds across that line from either side to discover what happens to them as they move, cross the line, arrive and remain.

building a line using pitches immediately creates motion by the different beatings that will be generated between the different pitches when they are played against each other. different beatings of varying rhythms whose motion is not initially predictable but that can be learned then understood so manipulated using purposeful and tiny alterations of pitch are used therefore to make the piece. also careful placement of tones in time and position in relation to each other. 

March 2019, Berlin.