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Performance

This section contains details of selected performance projects.

Projects are ordered chronologically by the latest relevant date, usually the most recent performance of the work. In some cases, projects have been shown and refined over a number of years. A full event history is included on each project page.

Radio Access Memory

Date (latest):  Jan 2007
  • Neil C Smith performing Radio Access Memory at Modern Art Oxford

Live, fully improvised performance work, using a computer to sample and manipulate sounds captured from live radio.

Chora

Date (latest):  Jun 2005
  • Audience listening to Chora

Generative choir of electronic voices singing phrases evolving through Darwin’s algorithm of inheritance, mutation and selection.

Soundworks Reworked

Date (latest):  Jun 2005

Festival residency at Soundworks 2005, leading to a live improvised performance remix of work from the festival.

Rebus

Date (latest):  Mar 2005
  • Rebus in performance

Collaboration with Cork-based performance research group REBUS, who practise dance improvisation in live performance.

re.sound.ing

Date (latest):  Jun 2004

Festival residency at re.sound 04, leading to a live improvised performance remix of work from the festival.

Chester Lantern Parades

Date (latest):  Dec 2001

A series of audio / visual commissions for the Chester Lantern Parades from 1998 to 2001.

Meme Pool

Date (latest):  Oct 2001

Digital soundscape created for OX1: A Festival of Oscillations and Vibrations, Oxford.

Torn

Date (latest):  Feb 1999
  • The Chrysalid (Abigail Clark) emerges at the end of Torn

Composer and Director of this dance / theatre performance shown at Powerhouse 1 Theatre, Wakefield.