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Peter AppletonTelephone: 0151 904 1175 |
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After a period working on the Oil Rigs in the North Sea he began to create objects which responded to and were powered by the elements, producing sound from wind rain and sun. Simultaneously this enquiry into electroacoustics produced a series of experimental performance instruments used in performance and collaborations with other musicians. Noteable performances were at: Queen Elizabeth Hall and National Theatre as part of the Sounds Unusual festival on the South Bank, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and at the Windsor Jazz Festival. Collaborations include recordings with The Loved One and the New Fast Automatic Daffodils and on Extreme Records. Also noteable was a performance with Brian Eno in Japan at the Inaugeration of a Shinto Temple in Tenkawa Early nineties began to explore digital sound and developed a system capable of being directly powered by sunlight –this made it possible to create sound works in remote outdoor locations creating ambient and augmental site specific sound pieces. This was a departure from the direct analog systems of previous pieces where the form often followed the function of the sound generating system. The first publicly sited piece “solar stream “ was commissioned for the Garden Festival of Wales. This system was further developed and used in Solar Sound Groynes commissioned for the Princess Diana Memorial Playground in Kensington Gardens. Here walking amongst the groynes causes the sounds of waves breaking on the seashore. The State of Sea installation at Tate Gallery St Ives involved the transmission of a live image of the sea carried on a laser beam via mirrors to the sunken courtyard in the centre of the building where it was demodulated and viewable on a small screen set into a wooden wall mounted Unit. Pocahatas Has Misgivings about living in a Digital Matrix was delivered as a Keynote presentation at ISEA 98 in Manchester and marked a new development reintroducing visual elements and reconnecting with some of the sensibilities of earlier paintings. This piece was presented on two projection screens, one showing the digital movies and the other live video image of the model worlds which controled them. As objects are manipulated in the model worlds sensors cause corresponding actions in the virtual projection . The piece ended with a fire lit in the small fireplace causing a fire to establish itself in the projected computer image. Current projects include: The Hope St project, the third in a series of collaborative projects with the composer Simon Thorne involving the distribution of voices within architectural spaces and using voice modulated string instruments and audio modulated lasers. Actions in Secondlife. A collaborative project with University of Salford and Folly. This explores the linking of virtual actions within Secondlife with reciprocal real events in the physical world. |
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