Sonorities, Belfast; H&N, Sat 14/7/18; 10:00pm

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Highlights from the biennial festival of Electronic Music, held in Belfast's Sonic Lab over the weekend 18th-22nd April, presented by Robert Worby. The Festival advertised itself with the caption "You might not like it", and the selection for this week's programme includes

Local composer Isaac Gibson's A Hitchhiker's Purgatory

Italian composer Paolo Pastorino(b1983)'s Velocità Limite for fixed media

Canadian composer-performers Marie-Hélène Breault(b1977) and Martin Bédard(b1970): Replica

Nicholas Collins:: !trumpet for hybrid electronics trumpet (I'm not sure if this is Nicolas Collins, the Canadian electro-acoustical composer b1954, or Nic Collins, the British composer born 1975, or, indeed, former Genesis drummer and actor Phil Collins' son Nick (b2001) - but the Festival homepage omits the "h" from his forename, and describes the instrument as "electronics", not - as on the Beeb website - "electromics")

Glasgow-based Louise Harris's NoisyMass for live electronics

Pierluigi Billone(b1960)'s Mani.de Leonardis for automobile suspension coils and glass

Chris Malloy(USA): A Celestial Breath.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9w27z

The Festival website is still available:

http://sonorities.org.uk/

[Richard Barrett]

Nicholas Collins:: !trumpet for hybrid electronics trumpet (I'm not sure if this is Nicolas Collins, the Canadian electro-acoustical composer b1954, or Nic Collins, the British composer born 1975, or, indeed, former Genesis drummer and actor Phil Collins' son Nick (b2001) - but the Festival homepage omits the "h" from his forename, and describes the instrument as "electronics", not - as on the Beeb website - "electromics")

It's Nicolas Collins without an "h", the American electro-acoustical composer b1954.

[MrGongGong]

It's Nicolas Collins without an "h", the American electro-acoustical composer b1954.

Nic (Handmade electronic music) and Nic (live coding) have done gigs together at times.
Worth a listen IMV

[Richard Barrett]

Nic (Handmade electronic music) and Nic (live coding) have done gigs together at times.
Worth a listen IMV

I dare say. Nic (Handmade) was a guest prof at my place of work this spring, which was nice, although actually he and I go back quite a long way (I've never met Nic (Coding) though I do have his SuperCollider book, which I really must try to plough through one of these days ). I was trying to get together an ensemble of students to perform one of his pieces but they were all too busy getting ready for their exams, so I put together a quartet of faculty members instead. Nic said that was a shame because he had suggested the piece as something the students would learn something from, to which I replied they ought to learn something from seeing their teachers stepping up and doing something they "didn't have time" for. Anyway it was very nice, like a Cage number piece but with a score generated in real time.