Mezihlas-Přeshlas-Nahlas (Radio Voice-Overs) and On the Éire: parts 5 and 6 of the 'Radio Series'
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
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- J - Composition
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- 2017
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- Mezihlas-Přeshlas-Nahlas (Radio Voice-Overs) and On the Éire are the 5th-6th works in the composer’s ‘Radio Series’ (preceded by French/GRM commission, British, German/ZKM and Chinese/Shenyang Conservatory compositions 2007-2013 + forthcoming Mexican/CMMAS, 2021). The series is inspired by Duchamp’s desire to offer found objects ‘a new thought’. Its research method involves the collection of diverse broadcasts of one nation, investigating this material from the points of view of the culturally universal and specific (such as the ‘Radio Burza [Exchange]’ programme in Ostrava, or county Meath’s weight-loss broadcast). The series’ aim is to recompose the material to achieve what the composer calls ‘a theatre of sounds within a choreography of space’. Sample-based sonic composition is driven forward due to sharp juxtaposing of the dramatic (referential) with the musical, taking listeners’ knowledge levels of the socio-cultural contexts into account. These works benefit from a variety of Landy’s sample-based compositional tools including humour and surprise; the experimental is combined with the listener’s daily life. Although these compositions were created as immersive concert works (including projected translations where relevant), the composer has worked internationally in educational contexts to share the approach, source materials and the works themselves for remix, borrowing collaborative sequential composition from popular music’s sampling culture offering an alternative to standard electroacoustic composition practice.
The Czech work was the 150th commission by Czech National Radio’s programme, R(A)dio(CUSTICA) which they broadcast and published on DVD (2017) and the pan-Irish work by Ulster University (2018 première).
This practice-based research is supported with related recent scholarly writing including: ‘On the Music of Sounds … and Other Things’ (Organised Sound 24/2, 8/19, supporting materials) and the forthcoming co-authored book (with John Richards) On the Music of Sounds and the Music of Things. The Radio Series has had performances across East Asia, Oceania, the Americas and Europe.
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