sat 02

1) Mat Ward - Breakfast At Charlies Contained no Fucks Whatsoever (3:53)

2) Chin Ting Chan - Mirror Sculpture (9:08)

3) George Finlay Ramsay & Rudi Zygadlo - Raven's Reprise (21:44)

4) Émile Fegté - First Go (2:14)

5) Finbarr Dillon - Weddellscape (22:21)


1) Mat Ward - Breakfast At Charlies Contained no Fucks Whatsoever

Mat Ward is a musician and researcher whose practice encompasses performance, installation, film scoring, noise art, sonic portraiture, free improvisation and site-specific response. He collaborates extensively with artists across the world and is currently co-ordinating an international art music collective titled Then She Reaches For The Gun featuring more than 50 musicians from 20 countries. Ward's current research focus is the examination of  the acoustic structure of noise; pulling apart field recordings to investigate how the properties of noise have both disruptive and cohesive elements and their relationship to human emotion and communication.
Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 to bring together some of Ward’s disparate collaborative projects through experimental sound collage. Ward invites people (not just musicians) to send him files which he arranges ‘as suggested by the work’ including field recordings, spoken word, noise and pet sounds as well as instrumental grabs. Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods extensively use what Frank Zappa called Xenocrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions that defy easy classification. A lot of it is also funny as fuck.

https://www.matward.net/
https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble

2) Chin Ting Chan - Mirror Sculpture

Mirror Sculpture is inspired by over twenty years of observation on a Ficus tree. While its surrounding has changed dramatically, the tree remains vigorous and intact. This shows the impact of time on things at different pace. Our perception or memory of them can vary dynamically, transforming them into a mirror that reflects who we are at different times and stages of our lives. When we are able to adapt to our surrounding with an open mind and curiosity, we not only see a clearer image of ourselves from this mirror, but also through it.

Hong Kong composer Chin Ting CHAN has been a guest composer at festivals such as IRCAM's ManiFeste, ISCM World Music Days Festival, and UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers. He has worked with ensembles such as City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Ensemble intercontemporain (France), Ensemble Metamorphosis (Serbia), Ensemble Signal (U.S.), eighth blackbird (U.S.), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and Mivos Quartet (U.S.), with performances in more than twenty countries. His recordings appear in more than fifteen albums, and his scores are published through BabelScores and Universal Edition. He is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Ball State University. http://www.chintingchan.com


3) George Finlay Ramsay & Rudi Zygadlo - Raven's Reprise

An invisible film for an end of the wurld.
Like a radio play but faster and louder. Verbal gymnastics & contrapuntal bubblegum do a dance with interspecies sex in Walmart parking lots, punch-ups in Morley’s chicken shops & ancient myths dissolved into Instagram memes. Inspired by the trickster origin myths of Northern Pacific cultures & the Coronavirus pandemic. Raven travels through the landscape of the 2020s, transforming herself, from toddler to teen to adult, battling her nemesis Lord Fatberg (who smells suspiciously like Trump & BoJo), hanging out with extinct species at a seaside resort & re-making the wurld to her better designs.

GF Ramsay (b. 1988, Dundee, Scotland) is an artist working with poetry, ritual and analogue film-making. In 2017 & 2018 he burned hundreds of people's regrets inside volcanoes across Eurasia. His fake epic poem Raven's Reprise (2020) tells of a trickster raven travelling through the pandemic and remaking the world to her better designs. His short film CASTOROCENE (2021) sees beavers re-build the world after humans have destroyed it. Mid length film Family Fugue (2022) is about how we are haunted by, and in turn haunt our ancestors. He is currently making plans to have his body thrown into a volcano after he dies. Ramsay’s work has been presented at Art Basel (CH), Barbican (UK), Beijing People’s Art Theatre (CN), BFI Southbank (UK), Camden Arts Centre (UK), Matadero (SP), Meyerhold Centre (RU), Mubi.com, NTS Radio, L’Orto Botanico di Roma (IT), LUX Scotland (SC), Rupert Residency (LT).

georgefinlayramsay.com

Glasgow based citizen of the world, Rudi Zygadlo began putting out electronic music in 2010. He released two albums and an EP with Planet Mu records, an EP on Pictures Music, a single on Diplo’s Mad Decent and a host of one offs on his own imprint, RZ. With an appetite for trickery and disguise, Rudi has also released numerous singles and EPs under the names of Lully and Golden Ratio Syrup. He has remixed Clean Bandit, Leanne La Havas, Sunset Sons, Amadou and Miriam and Electric Guest among others. He has also undertaken various multimedia collaborations. In 2014, he attended Red Bull Academy in New York where he produced a track with Thundercat, and in 2017, created the sound design for Gorillaz award winning Humanz app. He has composed two string quartets and, in collaboration with artist GF Ramsay, Rudi scored Oscar Winner, Tim Yip’s new film Love Infinity, an epic docu-drama about the queer art underworld of London, starring Daniel Lismore, Vivienne Westwood and Gilbert and George set for released on MUBI in 2022.

4) Émile Fegté - First Go

A pick-up truck arrives at the off-the-grid community. The gentile farmer has lost too many chickens. Something needed to change. A girl, surrounded by her community, reaches for an adulthood.

Émile Fegté is a collaborative artist with a penchant for relational dynamics, identity, and religion. Projects he's worked on have been presented by institutions such as SFMoMA, BAM, Framework Radio Visions Du Reel, Viennale, NYFF, NPR, the New School, and covered by publications including the NYTimes, the New Yorker, Vice, Mother Jones, and GQ. He currently lives in California.

5) Finbarr Dillon - Weddellscape

This piece is based on a recoding of the Weddell Seals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_seal recorded under the ice cap in the remote, frozen Southern Ocean around Antarctica, by the McMurdo Oceanographic Observatory, 21 meters below the sea ice. This piece was my entry into the ‘2022 Phonurgia Nova’ field recordings section in the competition, http://phonurgia.fr/en/

1) Mat Ward - Breakfast At Charlies Contained no Fucks Whatsoever (3:53)

2) Chin Ting Chan - Mirror Sculpture (9:08)

3) George Finlay Ramsay & Rudi Zygadlo - Raven's Reprise (21:44)

4) Émile Fegté - First Go (2:14)

5) Finbarr Dillon - Weddellscape (22:21)


1) Mat Ward - Breakfast At Charlies Contained no Fucks Whatsoever

Mat Ward is a musician and researcher whose practice encompasses performance, installation, film scoring, noise art, sonic portraiture, free improvisation and site-specific response. He collaborates extensively with artists across the world and is currently co-ordinating an international art music collective titled Then She Reaches For The Gun featuring more than 50 musicians from 20 countries. Ward's current research focus is the examination of  the acoustic structure of noise; pulling apart field recordings to investigate how the properties of noise have both disruptive and cohesive elements and their relationship to human emotion and communication.
Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 to bring together some of Ward’s disparate collaborative projects through experimental sound collage. Ward invites people (not just musicians) to send him files which he arranges ‘as suggested by the work’ including field recordings, spoken word, noise and pet sounds as well as instrumental grabs. Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods extensively use what Frank Zappa called Xenocrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions that defy easy classification. A lot of it is also funny as fuck.

https://www.matward.net/
https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble

2) Chin Ting Chan - Mirror Sculpture

Mirror Sculpture is inspired by over twenty years of observation on a Ficus tree. While its surrounding has changed dramatically, the tree remains vigorous and intact. This shows the impact of time on things at different pace. Our perception or memory of them can vary dynamically, transforming them into a mirror that reflects who we are at different times and stages of our lives. When we are able to adapt to our surrounding with an open mind and curiosity, we not only see a clearer image of ourselves from this mirror, but also through it.

Hong Kong composer Chin Ting CHAN has been a guest composer at festivals such as IRCAM's ManiFeste, ISCM World Music Days Festival, and UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers. He has worked with ensembles such as City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Ensemble intercontemporain (France), Ensemble Metamorphosis (Serbia), Ensemble Signal (U.S.), eighth blackbird (U.S.), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and Mivos Quartet (U.S.), with performances in more than twenty countries. His recordings appear in more than fifteen albums, and his scores are published through BabelScores and Universal Edition. He is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Ball State University. http://www.chintingchan.com


3) George Finlay Ramsay & Rudi Zygadlo - Raven's Reprise

An invisible film for an end of the wurld.
Like a radio play but faster and louder. Verbal gymnastics & contrapuntal bubblegum do a dance with interspecies sex in Walmart parking lots, punch-ups in Morley’s chicken shops & ancient myths dissolved into Instagram memes. Inspired by the trickster origin myths of Northern Pacific cultures & the Coronavirus pandemic. Raven travels through the landscape of the 2020s, transforming herself, from toddler to teen to adult, battling her nemesis Lord Fatberg (who smells suspiciously like Trump & BoJo), hanging out with extinct species at a seaside resort & re-making the wurld to her better designs.

GF Ramsay (b. 1988, Dundee, Scotland) is an artist working with poetry, ritual and analogue film-making. In 2017 & 2018 he burned hundreds of people's regrets inside volcanoes across Eurasia. His fake epic poem Raven's Reprise (2020) tells of a trickster raven travelling through the pandemic and remaking the world to her better designs. His short film CASTOROCENE (2021) sees beavers re-build the world after humans have destroyed it. Mid length film Family Fugue (2022) is about how we are haunted by, and in turn haunt our ancestors. He is currently making plans to have his body thrown into a volcano after he dies. Ramsay’s work has been presented at Art Basel (CH), Barbican (UK), Beijing People’s Art Theatre (CN), BFI Southbank (UK), Camden Arts Centre (UK), Matadero (SP), Meyerhold Centre (RU), Mubi.com, NTS Radio, L’Orto Botanico di Roma (IT), LUX Scotland (SC), Rupert Residency (LT).

georgefinlayramsay.com

Glasgow based citizen of the world, Rudi Zygadlo began putting out electronic music in 2010. He released two albums and an EP with Planet Mu records, an EP on Pictures Music, a single on Diplo’s Mad Decent and a host of one offs on his own imprint, RZ. With an appetite for trickery and disguise, Rudi has also released numerous singles and EPs under the names of Lully and Golden Ratio Syrup. He has remixed Clean Bandit, Leanne La Havas, Sunset Sons, Amadou and Miriam and Electric Guest among others. He has also undertaken various multimedia collaborations. In 2014, he attended Red Bull Academy in New York where he produced a track with Thundercat, and in 2017, created the sound design for Gorillaz award winning Humanz app. He has composed two string quartets and, in collaboration with artist GF Ramsay, Rudi scored Oscar Winner, Tim Yip’s new film Love Infinity, an epic docu-drama about the queer art underworld of London, starring Daniel Lismore, Vivienne Westwood and Gilbert and George set for released on MUBI in 2022.

4) Émile Fegté - First Go

A pick-up truck arrives at the off-the-grid community. The gentile farmer has lost too many chickens. Something needed to change. A girl, surrounded by her community, reaches for an adulthood.

Émile Fegté is a collaborative artist with a penchant for relational dynamics, identity, and religion. Projects he's worked on have been presented by institutions such as SFMoMA, BAM, Framework Radio Visions Du Reel, Viennale, NYFF, NPR, the New School, and covered by publications including the NYTimes, the New Yorker, Vice, Mother Jones, and GQ. He currently lives in California.

5) Finbarr Dillon - Weddellscape

This piece is based on a recoding of the Weddell Seals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_seal recorded under the ice cap in the remote, frozen Southern Ocean around Antarctica, by the McMurdo Oceanographic Observatory, 21 meters below the sea ice. This piece was my entry into the ‘2022 Phonurgia Nova’ field recordings section in the competition, http://phonurgia.fr/en/