Creation – instrumental live show. Performed at Gothenburg Art Sounds
Tag: psychoacoustic
New Work: Primordial Waters
New work this year, made in collaboration with artist Heather Lander for Cryptic. It’s a physical installation with intricate surround sound and a live performance element. ‘Primordial Waters’ will premiere as part of Sonic-A in Glasgow this week, appropriately on 31st October (Samhain of the Celtic calendar), concerned as it is with Celtic mythology and… Continue reading New Work: Primordial Waters
So Below & OWM Live – Mexico
I am lucky enough to be performing two different shows in Mexico over the next fortnight, as part of the 15th Visiones Sonoras Festival in Morelia, and by extension in Mexico City. The first show will be a live version of music released as part of my Other World Music (OWM) series, and be part… Continue reading So Below & OWM Live – Mexico
Review: So Below
Nice review of the ‘So Below’ live show, from earlier this year. https://www.list.co.uk/article/107783-so-below-alex-smoke-and-maarten-vos/ There will be news on further performances shortly, and am working towards a London show in the not-too-distant (but probably more distant than I think) future. Love0 Share
Other World Music : So Below
It’s been a quiet start to the year as far as observable activity is concerned, but behind the scenes it has been full on. The first work to break ground will be ‘So Below’, a one-off performance with my sometime collaborator Maarten Vos at the Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, supported by the PRS Foundation and Cryptic. I don’t want to… Continue reading Other World Music : So Below
New Album: Other World Music Vol.II
The second volume of my Other World Music series, under my own name, has been released. Again, it draws its influences from various musical traditions and forms and incorporates some of the research of my NHS music fellowship this year. I am just pressing up tapes and releasing them myself although they will also… Continue reading New Album: Other World Music Vol.II
New Album: Other World Music Vol.1
For the last few years I have been working increasingly away from the dancefloor under my own name, and soaking up more varied influences. Other World Music will be a series of albums reflecting my explorations in these new fields, part electronic, part acoustic, and exploring facets of sound and music such as psycho-acoustics, modal… Continue reading New Album: Other World Music Vol.1
Cafe OTO Gig
As a precursor to the Transcending installation in Glasgow Cathedral later in the year, myself and Florence To will be doing a one-off show at Cafe OTO in East London. We shall be incorporating elements of the research we have done so far to create an immersive A/V performance, utilising aspects of brain entrainment, psychoacoustics,… Continue reading Cafe OTO Gig
CØV – Transcending
We have had to wait a long time to announce this, as we have been getting together the funding and a coordinating with various people to make it happen, but finally it is in the action stages. Transcending is a new large-scale project that will explore the transformative power of light and sound in a… Continue reading CØV – Transcending