To hear on Sunday 15. March 2009, 2 pm - 9 pm:
Gravity's
by Rick Nance
Rick Nance on "Gravity's":
Several ‘verité’ recordings of different climbs were combined to create one ideal sequence which were gathered with studio recordings of gear. All of the recorded climbs were strained and tense. My climbing is tenuous and edgy work (at best!). Relaxation is rare. The visceral aspect of the climbing scene is accentuated by using the sound of 'the climber' (myself) pulling up the cliff face and labored breathing as a template against which different processed and natural sounds are matched and contrasted. Although much of that template is removed or mixed into the background, the physical and emotional tension of the climb remains.
Rick Nance
is a composer living in Birmingham, Alabama. He completed his composition doctorate at DeMontfort University with John Young. Rick works with sound as a malleable substance, fashioning it by hand, listening, filtering, and cutting in a "bottom-up" process to discover irreducible sound objects. Narrative structures in some of these works are derived from the situations in with the sounds were gathered, but act primarily as a framework for the listeners to delve deeper into the material of sound, feeling its textures, seeing its colours, and watching it shift and turn in the surrounding space. Rick teaches electroacoustic music at Birmingham Southern College and works with Scrollworks, a program delivering free music lessons to under served children in the Birmingham area.
Rick Nance