Axial is intended for projection on a dome-shaped space, such as a
planetarium, and is one of a series of compositions investigating expanded
audiovisual formats. The compositional structure is continually condensing
– essentially composed of five iterations of the same material, each
subsequent iteration is heard 1.5 times faster than the previous one,
creating a sense of momentum and acceleration without any change in pitch
or proportional duration of the material.
Auroculis: “Vibrant, physical, meditative…” The term Auroculis was initially used for a digital release of three of my pieces on the web label, Deepwhitesound (http://deepwhitesound.com/dws167/). However, both the name of the release and the description of it, written by curator D B Amorin, suggested the potential for further exploration: “Louise…
Living With and Living Through – a virtual residency positioning making as an act of self-care and repair. The Digital Departures Lab at the University of Glasgow, of which I am co-director, is currently facilitating a six-month digital residency on the theme of Living with and living through, positioning making as…
Eira is an Expanded Audiovisual Format (EAF) work for fulldome projection and multichannel audio. The shape of the work is derived from data concerning loss of global glacier mass since 1945. The work is palindromic, showing the initial contraction of glacial mass over the past 80 years, before showing…