Instant Places : Closeness @ Norfolk County Carillon
2014/2015
The Norfolk Arts Centre invited us to make an audiowork emanating from the Norfolk Carillon Tower in Simcoe Ontario. We made recordings in the bell tower over three days in August 2014, and returned in October 2015 to present a multichannel virtual carillon at the Arts Centre. In the CLOSENESS project we examine human-machine interfaces as membranes that simultaneously connect and separate, juxtaposing the light touch of a screen with the visceral framework of stone, pulleys, and ropes driving carillon bells.
Recorded live at NAISA Toronto June 10, 2013, excerpt from final section of the three-hour performance broadcast. Live sampling/transforms of voice, objects and modified guitar.
Instrumentation:
Laura Kavanaugh, laptop (custom software for live sampling), voice, amplified objects,
Ian Birse, modified guitar, live sampling.
Carillon structure
Carillon keyboard
Jim Nicholls adjusting the interface
Keyboard to bells interface
Interface to bells
Bell and clapper
Bell with clock hammer
Bells
Carillon structure
The tower
