Malcolm Riddoch

Variations on Electroacoustic Feedback Vol I

Malcolm Riddoch — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:09:38 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:02:31 +0000

Microphone feedback via the Spectrum Project Space performed at Sound Spectrum experimental media night 11/11/2011

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Variation for 6 String Futurama Electric Bass

Malcolm Riddoch — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:37:04 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:54:01 +0000

Decibel concert Camera Obscura performed at PICA on Monday 19 September, 2011 as part of the 1oth Totally Huge New Music Festiva l. Featuring works by Marina Rosenfeld, Samuel Dunscombe, Austin Buckett, Lindsay Vickery and Cat Hope, and Kynan Tan.

Noismaschin!!#3

Malcolm Riddoch — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:44:47 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:06:09 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:50:13 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:48:05 +0000

Download Recorded at the Velika Sala, SKC Beograd 01.09.2010 for Zeitblut Dva performance.

Zeitblut Dva

Malcolm Riddoch — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:37:01 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:35:45 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:17:25 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:29:52 +0000

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

ACMC 2010

Malcolm Riddoch — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:31:36 +0000

EXPERIMENTAL ELECTROACOUSTIC FEEDBACK SYSTEMS, THE PERFORMER AND THEIR AUDIENCE
A phenomenological description of an experimental approach to improvised electroacoustic performance utilizing acoustic space, a Logic Pro environment bussing matrix, Max/MSP and inherently unstable acoustic, electronic audio and midi feedback loops. Thematic dissolution is the musical theme following elements of Cagean indeterminacy in the composition and performance of musically organized sound. Embodied, performative engagement within acoustic space, both conceptual and practical, passive and active, is discussed in relation to experimental composition, the technological setup, the sounds themselves and the audience.

Paper delivered June 25 at the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2010, ANU Canberra. The proceedings are now available for download at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/acma89

Decibel at Liquid Architecture

Malcolm Riddoch — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:34:23 +0000

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.

Sounding a Room

Malcolm Riddoch — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:28:20 +0000

Review of Decibel’s Lucier concert Still and Moving Lines, RealTime Arts Magazine – issue 97 – sounding a room.

Serial Space July 4 2010

Malcolm Riddoch — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:50:32 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:57:50 +0000

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

Malcolm Riddoch — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:19:26 +0000

Kurb Gallery Perennial Performance #4, recorded Friday May 7 2010
Action: Tatjana Šešerko
Audio: Malcolm Riddoch

Variation 3 – Eden Acoustics

Malcolm Riddoch — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:22:52 +0000

Download Eden Acoustics 3/03/2010

Decibel Performing Alvin Lucier Works

Malcolm Riddoch — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:14:10 +0000

Decibel, Thursday 13/05/2010

Enargeia iEMS 1

Malcolm Riddoch — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:35:23 +0000

Download Enargeia online loop 5/05/10

Variation 1 – Kurb Acoustics

Malcolm Riddoch — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:56:47 +0000

Recorded at the Kurb Performance Perennial #4 22/08/2009

Variation 2 – Spectrum Acoustics

Malcolm Riddoch — Sat, 01 May 2010 22:29:58 +0000

Download Spectrum Acoustics 25/08/2009

Decibel Promo

Malcolm Riddoch — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:58:16 +0000

Abe Sada Ampstack

Malcolm Riddoch — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:20:25 +0000

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.

Enargeia Gulag

Malcolm Riddoch — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:48:09 +0000

Download Enargeia at Gulag

Work and Dissolution

Malcolm Riddoch — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:37:41 +0000

Doctoral thesis on a phenomenological interpretation of practice and perception in the early works of Husserl and Heidegger.

Work_and_Dissolution.pdf