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BOT OPERA (BETA)
2022-Ongoing
Bot Opera (Beta) is a a part of an ongoing thread of artworks using performance, and song. This collection of experiments written over a five-year period were produced as part of a robot opera set in London parks, meditating on posthumanism, love, and friendship. The album features guest musicians Chris Cundy, Rachel Kenedy, Thomas Greene, Joanna Curwood, and Harry Love, and was made in various studios including Bark studio in Walthamstow and Gallery 46 in Whitechapel, London.
Although called an opera, the starting point of the fictional imagined performance rests also in the London Music Hall tradition.
Using a mixture of random generated rhythms and hand played digital sounds, along with analogue 1970s synthesizers and acoustic instruments such as bass clarinet and cello, these songs are made in a way that avoids the grid of the contemporary digital productions - using these tools in a broken and messy way. A method that uses computer production like tape with digital toys and then adds moments of acoustic and analogue. Improvisation in collaboration with the digital.
This first iteration of songs was released as an album via Crocodile Laboratories in 2022.
Other parts of the robot performances have used elements of Ted Hughes poetry at Pragmata Gallery, and binary code loves songs at CAP Cabaret (Mel Brimfield).
Another development was Haunting at the Royal College of Music with composer Zhenyan Li. This coordinated by Paul Morley. A performance of a in binary code song, a noise guitar track, a composition and performance. This was performed by proffesional a opera singer and musicians as part of the Sound & Vision festival 2020.
Although called an opera, the starting point of the fictional imagined performance rests also in the London Music Hall tradition.
Using a mixture of random generated rhythms and hand played digital sounds, along with analogue 1970s synthesizers and acoustic instruments such as bass clarinet and cello, these songs are made in a way that avoids the grid of the contemporary digital productions - using these tools in a broken and messy way. A method that uses computer production like tape with digital toys and then adds moments of acoustic and analogue. Improvisation in collaboration with the digital.
This first iteration of songs was released as an album via Crocodile Laboratories in 2022.
Other parts of the robot performances have used elements of Ted Hughes poetry at Pragmata Gallery, and binary code loves songs at CAP Cabaret (Mel Brimfield).
Another development was Haunting at the Royal College of Music with composer Zhenyan Li. This coordinated by Paul Morley. A performance of a in binary code song, a noise guitar track, a composition and performance. This was performed by proffesional a opera singer and musicians as part of the Sound & Vision festival 2020.
