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New Arrival  Heather and Richard are very happy to announce the birth of their son, Sean Francis Garrett. He arrived at Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth, Wales at 21:07 BST on Monday, 10th October 2005. His birth weight was 8lbs 6oz (3.8 kg) and he is, of course, very beautiful. (more pictures)(10/05) |
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60x60 Airplay  Richard's entry for the 60x60 project 2005 was played on June 12th on Max Shea's Martian Gardens radio show (WMUA FM 91.1 Amherst, Massachusetts, USA). 60x60 is a concert containing 60 compositions from 60 different composers, each composition 60 seconds or less in duration. These 60 recorded pieces are performed in succession without pause one after another for a 1 hour concert. The performance is played in conjunction with synchronized analogue clock. At the top of each minute in the hour the domain of space for the composer has begun. Composers who have written works less than 60 seconds are strategically and artistically place within that minute; the rest of the minute is filled with silence until the next minute begins. In Richard's submission, entitled 60/168 and written especially for 60x60, a computer program uses the number 60 and its factors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30) to create 168 musical events. Sixty events occur once a second, thirty occur every two seconds, twenty every three seconds, and so on. All events of the same time interval have the same pitch. Sixty events are then chosen at random and played over a MIDI synthesizer. Whenever the program runs, a different variation is heard. Each of the 1.907 x 10128 possible variations lasts exactly one minute. The final selection of 60 pieces will be made in September. Martian Gardens 60x60 project (voxnovus.com) (6/05) |
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Weathersongs Project now Online  Richard's latest project, Weathersongs, is now up and running. Weathersongs is a project to compose music from the ever-changing patterns of the weather. The project has a number of elements ranging from a real-time installation through to musical interpretations of data and collected over days or even months. The first phase of the Weathersongs Project is an installation which uses an electronic weather station to compose continually evolving music in response to surrounding weather conditions. The first version of this installation has already been built and is located at Richard's home in North Wales. The second phase edits the real-time output of the installation to form shorter, more structured pieces, that reflect the weather at particular place and time. In time, Sunday Dance plans to release collections of pieces, each collection from a specific location, as audio CDs. Extracts of music produced by these first two phases can be heard at the weathersongs website. The next stage will utilise a datalogger to record changes in the weather over set time periods (say, single days); sonify the information; and play back the resulting music over a shorter time (probably one day = six minutes). Collections of these "Days In the Life" will also be made into CDs. The software for this element is currently under development. The Weathersongs Music Project has its own dedicated website at weathersongs.org (12/04) |
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Robot Sculpture picked for
2003
