Art pop intersections - producing Dutch Uncles and Robin Richards
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University of Salford, The
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 50974
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Recorded artefacts, commercial recording releases, documentation of process, conference presentations
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- URL
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https://salford.figshare.com/collections/Art_Pop_Intersections_-_Producing_Dutch_Uncles_and_Robin_Richards/4458851/5
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
- The Earth Asleep- Robin Richards
This film score was scheduled for performances at Manchester’s HOME cinema and London Barbican on 18th April and 3rd May 2020 respectively, with recording dates to follow. The performances have now been pencilled in for autumn 2021. The score is recorded but the Prah have decided to delay the release until we can link it to the live performances.
Birdsong- Stories From Pripyat
This live score was performed multiple times through 2016. The album was due to be released as a double album alongside The Earth Asleep. As a result, the recording was delayed.
- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This multi-component output spans a six-year period of research, preceded by activity begun in 2010. The Timeline details the multiple periods of intense extended activity required to present over five hours of original recorded music. I have worked with Robin Richards on all of his releases/performances as a member of Dutch Uncles and as a solo artist, enabling me to refine the research methodology extensively, reflect on in in scholarly texts/presentations and implement it in conceptually related projects with other creative collaborators. Each output has required me to carefully structure multiple phases of activity in liaison with artists and publishers.
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- Additional information
- This practice-based research represents a portion of my creative output centred on collaborations with the UK art pop band Dutch Uncles, their primary composer Robin Richards and a conceptually related release by the ensemble Manchester Collective. The collection comprises two full length albums (Dutch Uncles– O Shudder/Big Balloon), two film scores (Birdsong, Stories from Pripyat/The Earth Asleep) and two EP’s (Robin Richards– Castel/Manchester Collective - Recreation).
The research focusses on the development of studio and on-location production techniques which I established to best capture and present music which sought to exist outside of easily defined genre; between contemporary classical, electronic/electroacoustic and alternative popular forms.
The research was led by the central research questions:
•How might traditional ‘classical’ instrumental capture be developed in order to present the forces in new contexts; in seeking to incorporate these instruments within arrangements focussed on dense interplay between traditional ‘guitar band’ instrumentation and electronics how would I be required to alter accepted practices?
•How do audiences understand the meanings inherent in the spatial and timbral presentation of recorded music. Can these associations be drawn upon to frame the aural reading of music which seeks to exist in a public space not yet easily defined?
The recordings in the collection were captured utilising both traditional and innovative techniques in a variety of spaces which were chosen specifically to address the research questions. Upon mixdown, the recordings were often treated in a radically different way to that of traditional self-balancing acoustic works. The outputs have been released internationally by the influential labels Memphis Industries, Prah and Bedroom Community, receiving significant funding specifically in order to enable ambitious instrumental arrangements and recording methodologies (PRSF Momentum Fund). The Films and accompanying scores were made possible via ACE, HOME (Manchester) and the Japanese Sasakawa Foundation.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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