Paulina Sundin's music is characterized by harmony derived from the acoustic qualities of everyday objects, rather than traditional tempered scales.
Compositional Technique
Mark Bokowiec's piece 'Amera' was composed using field recordings from Devon and Cornwall, processed with techniques like Phase Vocoding and Granular Synthesis, and then reprocessed in the Absynth environment.
Album & Artwork
This album, titled 'In Search of the Miraculous', features works by postgraduate researchers in electroacoustic media and computer music from the University of Huddersfield's Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM).
Compositional Technique
Nicolas Bernier's electronic music is created from objects of the past, including a typewriter, old machines, tuning forks, and soundscape memories, blending organic sound sources with digital processing.
Composer's Artistic Vision
A common theme among the works on this album is the exploration of relationships between the natural world and human ritual, and the idea of sonic phenomena as an embodied or spatialized presence.
Composer Biography
Rose Dodd, a composer on this album, also works commercially creating music for computer games, iPad apps, toys, and animation, often with a strong storytelling component.
Compositional Technique
Sten-Olof Hellström's piece 'In My Own Words' is based on the behavior of molecules and atoms in melting ice, with sounds generated by mapping atomic relations to sound parameters and recording water freezing.
