Welcome to Sunday Dance Music, an independent record company based in North Wales UK. The current aim of Sunday Dance is to promote and distribute the music of English composer and musician, Richard Garrett.
Sunday Dance is also home to nwdlbots (pronounced noodlebots), a suite of generative music devices for Ableton Live, available for download on this site.
Richard
“Only Now” at Electroacoustic Wales 7/11/13
My most recent acousmatic piece, “Only Now” will have its premiere as part of the Electroacoustic Wales Concert in Powis Hall, Bangor University on Thursday 7th November at 8:00. The piece features some of my large-scale “sound-groups” realised in Supercollider and will be played back over a 32 speaker surround system. More information at www.pontio.co.uk
“Many Drops” wins art! ⋈ climate competition
“Many Drops” has been selected by the Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre and an international jury convened by the CEIArtE research centre (Argentina), in the sound art miniatures “art! ⋈ climate” 2012-2013 contest. The Climate Centre will be using and disseminating the piece in a number of actions that could range from participative workshops or educational videos to collaborative learning games to … More…
nwdlbot group on Soundcloud
I’ve just added a group to SoundCloud called nwdlbots pronounced “noodlebots” so that people using the bots in their music can put files up and hear what others are doing. If you have anything you would like to share or you just want to listen, please go to: https://soundcloud.com/groups/nwdlbots-pronounced-noodlebots
Chord Sender trick on Live 9
I recently got a copy of Live 9 and realised that Ableton introduced some new functionality that is of great use to nwdlbots. You can now apply automation envelopes to control parameters from within clips. This offers the possibility of using the envelope view in a chord sender track to set the chord types while still using pitch values to set the root note … More…
SundayDance on Soundcloud
I’ve recently put some music up on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/sundaydance). I’m mostly going to use it as a platform for stereo mixes of the electroacoustic stuff I’m doing at Bangor, but it will also be a repository for some back catalogue and maybe a few gems from the vault. There are a few nwdlbot examples which I will incorporate into this site some time soon. … More…