Malcolm Riddoch :: to the sounds themselves
Performance
Variations on Electroacoustic Feedback Vol I
CD album release: selection of field recordings / performances 2009-2011.
Album launch this Friday 2nd December at Kreation Art House 206 Barbadoes Street, Christchurch, New Zealand. Doors open 8pm with performances by Malcolm Riddoch & Stanier Black-Five, Kikkawa/Scowen and Adam Willetts.
Sound Spectrum vs Screenophilia
Microphone feedback via the Spectrum Project Space performed at Sound Spectrum experimental media night 11/11/2011
Variation for 6 String Futurama Electric Bass
Feedback Performance at the Lyttelton Cellar, Lyttelton New Zealand 1/10/2011 alongside IDG and Bruce Russell.
Futurama 6 string electric bass guitar -> computer -> amplifier with microphone/acoustic space controlling the parameterization of the electronics.
Variation for 6 String Futurama Electric Bass Download
Photograph by Jo Burzynska
Decibel at PICA: Concert 3: Camera Obscura
Decibel concert Camera Obscura performed at PICA on Monday 19 September, 2011 as part of the 1oth Totally Huge New Music Festival. Featuring works by Marina Rosenfeld, Samuel Dunscombe, Austin Buckett, Lindsay Vickery and Cat Hope, and Kynan Tan.
Noismaschin!!#3
Electroacoustic feedback performance for microphone/acoustic space controlling MIDI note on/off, velocity and 6 CC’s driving a vintage Yamaha DX9 FM digital synthesizer with quadraphonic output panning via 4 independent LFO’s.
Variation for DX9 Download
Performed on 15/09/2011 at The Perth Artifactory as part of the 2011 Totally Huge New Music Festival.
Complete recordings of all artists works available on theartifactory.bandcamp.
Variation on Electroacoustic Feedback for Multiband EQ Filter, Flute and Cello
Decibel artists Malcolm Riddoch (electroacoustics), Cat Hope (flute) and Tristen Parr (cello).
Performed by Decibel at PICA March 28 2011 for the concert A Voice from a Dark Space.
Composition (Malcolm Riddoch 2011): Use the Larsen effect (microphone feedback) to explore the various natural resonant frequencies of the acoustic space. Acoustic performers should listen and play the nearest microtonal equivalent in pitch, loudness and duration.
Performative attention should be paid to the resonance of one’s acoustic instrument in the space as it interacts with that space’s reinforcing resonant frequencies.
Variations in the acoustic instruments’ pitch and loudness may also drive new resonant electroacoustic feedback frequencies. In this case performative listening may alternate between passive (following the electroacoustic resonance) and active (playing the acoustic space itself).
Photography by Lisa Businovski
Decibel at PICA – A Voice from a Dark Space
Concert 1: A Voice From a Dark Space
Sold out performance on March 28 8pm PICA and featured mezzo soprano Caitlin Cassidy.
Photography by Lisa Businovski
Programme:
Malcolm Riddoch (AUS) – Variation on Electroacoustic Feedback for Multiband EQ, Flute and Cello (2010).
Cornelius Cardew (USA) - The Tigers Mind ‘Night Piece’ (1967)
Julian Day (AUS)- Beginning to Collapse (2008) for ensemble [WA premiere].
Cat Hope (AUS): Longing (2011) for viola, cello, timpani, bass clarinet, laptop [world premiere]
Alan Lamb (AUS )- Musicians Coping with Infinity (2011) for infinity machine and players [world premiere]
Ennio Morricone (IT): Sacco and Vanzetti (arranged by Decibel)
Adam Trainer (AUS)– Drone Mosaic (2010) [world premiere]
Lindsay Vickery (AUS ): Night Fragments (2011) for soprano, flute, soprano saxophone, viola, cello, keyboard and electronics.
Variation Beograd
Download Recorded at the Velika Sala, SKC Beograd 01.09.2010 for Zeitblut Dva performance.
Zeitblut Dva
Zeitblut Dva direct video action and quadraphonic electroacoustic performance recorded at the Studentski Kulturni Centar, Beograd 01.09.2010 for the Triennial of Expanded Artistic Media – Belgrade
Action: Tatjana Šešerko
Audio: Malcolm Riddoch
Enargeia at Analogue to Digital
Enargeia is Jeremy Hicks and Malcolm Riddoch – we play electronic and electroacoustic technologies patched and re-patched using structural chaos as an organizing principle.
Video recorded live at Analogue to Digital 3, Scitech, Perth Western Australia 18.09.1010
ZEITBLUT – live intermedia electroacoustic performance
By Tatjana Šešerko and Malcolm Riddoch will take place in the context of the Triennial of Expanded Artistic Media – Belgrade 2010 at the Studentski Kulturni Centar (SKC) Kralja Milana 4, Belgrade, Serbia on 01.09.2010
“Zeitblut” was recently enacted at the Kurb Gallery in Northbridge – it is an interesting reinterpretive action that substituted fresh perspective upon the well known irony of Peter Weibel’s original piece coupled with Valie Export’s “Remote…Remote” (and subsequent works by Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy). The interrogative wealth of Šešerko/Riddoch’s performative illustration lies within the stuttered dislocation of live narrowcast imagery with the intuitive immediacy of sound construction that evolves over the duration of the performance. Visually and aurally it is a very dramatic construction.”
(Dr Peter Mudie)
Decibel at Eugene Goosens
Decibel Performing at the Eugene Goosens Hall, ABC Studios, Ultimo, Sydney, as part of Liquid Architecture, 3/07/2010.
Left to right: Guy Fleming, Cat Hope, Stuart James, Lindsay Vickery and Malcolm Riddoch.
Image courtesy Decibel
Decibel at Liquid Architecture
Decibel – Still and Moving Lines Australian Tour
Decibel perform selected works of Alvin Lucier at Liquid Architechture 2010
Melbourne: Friday July 2: RRR studios
Sydney: Saturday July 3: Eugene Goosens Studio, ABC, Utlimo.
Serial Space July 4 2010
Jon Rose, Candied Limbs, Gail Priest, Malcolm Riddoch
free non-idiomatic improv and noise meets laptop across the sounds of a room
Sunday July 4, 8pm $10 entry
Serial Space, 33 Wellington St Chippendale, Sydney
Variation 4 – KK Gallery Acoustics
Download – Variation 4 recorded at Kurongkurl Katitjin Gallery, Edith Cowan University, 21 May 2010. Microphone performers Cat Hope on electric bass and Lindsay Vickery saxophone, various artists on vocals and found sounds.
Zeitblut One
Kurb Gallery Perennial Performance #4, recorded Friday May 7 2010
Action: Tatjana Šešerko
Audio: Malcolm Riddoch
Abe Sada Ampstack
Abe Sada Ampstack Recorded at the Kurb Performance Perennial #4 22/08/2009
Composer: Cat Hope
Performers: Cat Hope, Karlos, Malcolm Riddoch and Kouhei Harada.