Category: music

PhD thesis – Spatial referentiality and openness: a portfolio of environmental based compositions (2016)

This is the result of my practice based research at Queen’s University Belfast (more specifically, at SARC), supervised by Dr. Pedro Rebelo and Dr. Paul Stapleton (2nd supervisor).
Here, you can find the full portfolio commentary in PDF, related posts and video documentation for each piece.

Abstract

Through a creative portfolio and an analytical and critical commentary, this research investigates the use of spatial references in the composition of semi-open environmental sound works. The portfolio explores a number of strategies to make use of spatial references as formal compositional components to enable more intuitive performance/reading experiences. The pieces present a number of electronically mediated scenarios in varied formats; concert, installation and mobile application. Counting on the intuitive way one tries to constantly identify surrounding spaces, each piece uses physical (performance/presentation spaces) and representational devices (illustrations, maps, video projections, spatialised sound etc.) to articulate and delimitate semi-open artistic experiences. Such ambiguous scenarios are enabled by both the unpredictability of elements of each work and the dependence on the subjective interpretations of the agents involved in the process. The creative processes presented here in a descriptive, analytical and critical manner attempt to make an artistic contribution and provide documental material for future reflection about related practices.

Download: commentary_PhD_thesis_Patricio_2016

Related posts: No Chords Attached; Come Across; Lock 1 memories; Sienkiewicz Pipes; Up the Hill; A Blue Bridge

Videos of the portfolio pieces:

No Chords attached (short version)

No Chords attached (full concert)

Come Across (short version)

Come Across (full concert)

Lock 1 Memories

Sienkiewicz Pipes

Up the Hill

A Blue Bridge (short version)

A Blue Bridge (full concert)

Até (demo, unreleased)

Demo version of unreleased track part of Claudio Lima’s 3rd album I’m producing.

All sounds used in this track are processed samples from Claudio’s own voice.

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Trouble (2015)

Theatre performance/installation by Shannon Yee, produced by TheatreofplucK “(…)  that creatively brings to life the voices of queer people who lived through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s in Northern Ireland. A host of the provinces best loved actors from stage and screen give voice to the actual testimony of LGBTQ people who navigated The Troubles to live, love and build community here. This fascinating performance installation uncovers a hidden queer history that is in turn moving, defiant, funny and hard hitting”.

My role: sound designer/programmer. I was responsible for recording and editing the actor’s voices, for the music composition and for designing a local network playback system (using Max/MSP) that connected 13 machines (1 laptop controlling 12 tablets) to reproduce 12 different, but synchronized, movies and 24 independent audio channels.

Interesting review / further info.

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Tuesdays at Tescos (2014)

 

“Tuesdays at Tescos tells the story of Pauline, a loving daughter, carer and trans woman in an astonishing and vulnerable site-specific production.

Lyn Harris’ production was first performed at the MAC, Belfast in June 2014 before touring to Armagh, Cookstown and Strabane. ”

Peter Quigley acted on the streets, while the audience, isolated by glass walls, heard him through speakers. It was an interesting set-up with all the sounds being technologically mediated one way or another.

Some music I’ve composed for the show:
(Thank you, Debussy)

 

 

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The Trouble with Harry (2013)

“Based on the true story of Eugenia Falleni, who passed as a man in early 20th century Australia, Lachlan Philpott’s play picks apart the rules of gender and sexuality that punish any transgression in a time when even being able to identify oneself as ‘trans’ or ‘lesbian’ was a long way off for most people  There is no way to know what really happened behind the closed doors of bedrooms of the past and Philpott playfully explores this ambiguity and confusion to raise questions about our own assumptions of gender.”

Further information here.

For ‘The trouble with Harry’, I worked with Felipe Hickmann, who composed some music material for the play.

Here is some of the “odd timbral and harmonic backdrops, underscoring the internal turmoil experienced by protagonist Harry/Eugenia” I composed:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL8A8lzQMcg

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Sienkiewicz Pipes (2013)

Sienkiewicz Pipes is an environmental sound based immersive installation. The piece was inspired by a field recording made on Sienkiewicz Street  in the city of Poznan, Poland, in mid-2012.

Sound and light pulses are controlled by the user in a small room equipped with a quadraphonic sound system.

Sienkiewicz Pipes was presented twice. First at  ICMC conference 2013 in Perth (Australia) and, later, at SAE 2013 in Kent (UK).

http://www.gallerycentral.com.au/sienkiewicz-pipes-by-eduardo-patricio/

Click to access SAE2013-Programme.pdf

 

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Zin (2009-2011)

Zin is a digital instrument/interface I’ve developed between 2009 and 2011. It is Arduino based and its synthesizer is implemented in both Pure Data and Max/MSP.

I had the opportunity to perform with Zin in a few occasions such as:

(2011) FILE Festival – Sao Paulo/Brazil

(2012) Sonorities Festival – Belfast/UK

(2012) iscMME conference – Leeds/UK

(2013) NIME conference – Daejeon-Seoul/South Korea

 

 

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