One Stone for Hermione Levi

Seeking to develop an enhanced awareness of how sound is heard and interpreted “One Stone for Hermione Levi” is an original composition exploring the relationship between spontaneity, creativity and improvisation. Using sounds that are often left unheard, this composition begins and ends with the composer’s heartbeat, creating opportunities to realise the potential of using digital technologies to record, sample and create new sounds using human sources. In this paper, I consider a number of compositional possibilities that may begin to define and recognise the importance of silence as a means to a compositional end. There will be silence, interspersed with bursts of sound, multi-layered to create an illusion of movement through the application of real and virtual instrumentation. Computer-aided compositional strengths and weaknesses will be explored as the concept of presenting sound without visual imagery is discussed. Exploring the uniqueness of sound as a means of expression and individual interpretation, One Stone for Hermione Levi considers two primary questions: ‘what do I see when I hear this sound?’ and ‘how do I find stillness in a multi-sensory world?’

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Joe Osmond

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 24-27

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[1 ] Multi-sensory artist

Alton, Hampshire, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.6

SO-VID: 72d168f0-977c-4202-9c28-a131e323c4cc

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 12 - 14 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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J. Osmond 2015 The Musicians of Memory featuring guitar improvisations, poems and soundscapes ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://ioesnowpoet.weebly.com/new-works.html">http://ioesnowpoet.weebly.com/new-works.html
J. Osmond 2011 Birdsong for Prisoners EVA London 2011: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, 245 249 Electronic Workshops in Computing, British Computer Society
J. OsmondBicknell 2013 Darshan of Starlings and Beautiful Word Birds Red Brick Arts Glastonbury 15th December 2013
C. Thorpe Davie 1953 Musical Structure and Design: New York Dover Publications Inc 1966 (an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Dennis Dobson 1953 32
J. Sr Whitney 1972 Screening Room, ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW4DTKNflA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW4DTKNflA

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[1] J. Osmond 2015 The Musicians of Memory featuring guitar improvisations, poems and soundscapes ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://ioesnowpoet.weebly.com/new-works.html">http://ioesnowpoet.weebly.com/new-works.html

[2] J. Osmond 2011 Birdsong for Prisoners EVA London 2011: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, 245 249 Electronic Workshops in Computing, British Computer Society

[3] J. OsmondBicknell 2013 Darshan of Starlings and Beautiful Word Birds Red Brick Arts Glastonbury 15th December 2013

[4] C. Thorpe Davie 1953 Musical Structure and Design: New York Dover Publications Inc 1966 (an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Dennis Dobson 1953 32

[5] J. Sr Whitney 1972 Screening Room, ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW4DTKNflA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW4DTKNflA

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