Malcolm Riddoch :: to the sounds themselves
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