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| Sonica FM Augmented Gamelan event at New River Studios, London | 26/07/15 2-5pm |
| Augmented Gamelan set.
Live performance with small ensemble involving “soft-style” instruments and electronics including a small set of bonang/kethuk with transducers. The performance will form part of a spiritual exploration event in the afternoon – we’ll be playing a stretched-out version of our set. |
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| Sonic Arts Forum performance at New River Studios, London | 25/07/15 |
| Charles Matthews solo set
Live performance modified gamelan instruments and light, diffused over a multichannel system. |
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| Splitting the Atom at the Green Door Store, Brighton, UK | 05/04/15 |
| Improvisatory collaboration with Charlotte Pugh, involving recorders, small gongs, electronics, and feedback. | |
| Sonica.fm Broadcast at The Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK | 10/02/15 |
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Solo set (Charles Matthews).
Improvised drone piece using small gamelan instruments and transducers. |
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| Sonic Arts Forum meeting at Sonophilia Festival, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK | 24/10/14 |
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Solo set (Charles Matthews).
Talk and short improvised piece using gamelan instruments and transducers. |
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| “Noize Party” at Gedung Kesenian Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia | 16/05/14 |
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Solo set (Charles Matthews).
Improvisation with a small selection of bonang and transducers driven by a synthesiser patch built in Max/MSP. |
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| Gamelanathon at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London | 06/07/13 |
| Augmented Gamelan set.
Live performance with small ensemble involving “soft-style” instruments and electronics including a small set of bonang/kethuk with transducers. We’ll be playing in the front room after a performance by the Southbank Gamelan Players and guest musicians and dancers from ISI Solo in the main hall. |
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| No Dark Places festival at the Albert, London | 01/06/13 |
| Augmented Gamelan set.
Live performance with small ensemble involving “soft-style” instruments and electronics including a small set of bonang/kethuk with transducers. We’ll be playing on the Lagoon stage inside an empty swimming pool. |
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| Algorave on the MS Stubnitz, London | 16/05/13 |
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Solo “psuedoalgorithmicgamelanacid” set as Ardisson.
I’ll be using the Mipilan software developed in Max/MSP to control an array of hardware including a TB303 and using resonances of a couple of small gamelan instruments augmented with transducers. |
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| Art and Healing fundraiser at the New Diorama Theatre | 28/10/12 |
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This was a pre-recorded electronic piece developed using the Augmented Gamelan instrument setup and Mipilan. On the day it was diffused and triggered live in the space.
Collaboration with movement by Rebecca Woodford-Smith in response to Oi Nuen Sprunt’s ShoutCry Room. |
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| Daylight Music at the Union Chapel | 30/06/12 |
| Augmented Gamelan set.
Live performance with small ensemble involving “soft-style” instruments and electronics, tailored to the beautiful acoustics of the Union Chapel. |
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| Gathering of the Gamelan at the University of York | 26/04/12 |
| Presentation/demo of the project in the morning, including a performance of ladrang Srikaton for solo gender and electronics. Afternoon performance of a related collaboration with Charlotte Pugh based on improvisation for various gamelan instruments and electronics, focussing on live looping and feedback. | |
| Placard Headphone Festival, Sheffield | 16/07/11 |
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Solo performance diffused on headphones involving small gongs, transducers, and environmental sounds from the performance space.
Recording here. |
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