electronic music - Zack Moir

Real-Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries

In: Producing Music Zack Moir, Paul Ferguson, and Gareth Dylan Smith Abstract: Inhabitants of the 21st century live and work in a world in which many aspects of daily interactions with other humans are no longer hampered by physical distance. Indeed, scholars and practitioners in fields such as music and communications are finding that there …

Found Sounds: Music From the Mundane

In: The Music Technology Cookbook: Read-made recipes for the classroom Abstract:This ‘recipe’ encourages learners to develop their critical and analytic listening skills by seeking and recording sounds in their environment as a basis for music composition. The use of unorthodox (i.e. not inherently musical) sounds in a compositional context develops critical listening, creative use of …

IDDM

IDDM is a piece for tape and improvising musician which draws on data from my diabetes to generate pitch content. The first performance of this piece took place in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, on Friday the 10th of February, as part of the ‘Old Town / New Music’ concert series. This version was played in quadraphonic diffusion with …

DIALOGUES / concerning…

‘DIALOGUES / concerning…’ is a collaboration with poet and playwright Dave Fargnoli. The album is a combination of original music and spoken word featuring ‘…beautifully tense textures and infectious melodies‘ (BBC Radio Scotland) which find a counterpoint in the dramatic lyrical texts of Dave Fargnoli. ‘Improvisational and Inspirational, eclectic and restlessly inventive‘ (The Scotsman).