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Walk inside this music, anywhere in the world, and explore it like a physical structure: Send a post/zip code - I will build you a unique version of the music to explore in that place.  Virtual choir: Take me by the hand The composition was sculpted in the digital studio from performances of singers encountered on the pavement, the campus and the supermarket. I captured their often apprehensive sight-singing of the simple melody onscreen and on headphones, then edited, combined, transformed the sounds that these sessions generated. The music that resulted combines sounds of the simple loveliness of certain chance-found voices with a highly organised, tightly packed, interplay between the rhythm, intonation and enunciation of the singers.  Multiple studio tricks were used in transforming the voices but I followed two rules - only use the voices themselves and keep them as though real, even in the densest textures. The decision to self-impose these restraints was in a way liberating - the composition was limited only to what material I had been provided - no elaboration was possible. It was therefore necessary to combine, to weave or collage the collected samples of sung fragments and re-build them into the whole which you hear. I attempt, not to set the text of Jeffrey Wainwright's deceptively simple poem directly but, to map the contours of something intangible within the words. The inspiration of early 17th century composer and choirmaster Thomas Weelkes has also left its mark here, in the alternations between imitative counterpoint and homophony, invention and memory, reassuring harmony and the quiet terror that accompanies disintegration, unravelling. Audio download of "Take me by the Hand"
Articles: 
 •Virtual Music Performance: what is it?•Zones of Intensities: Auditory Hyper-Reality and Virtual Music Performance
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