Khamlane Halsackda - Death is the Plant (2005)

This piece was part of the White Christmas season at The Place. (Press release here.)

Listen to the following excerpts:

• beginning excerpt (very ambient piano waltz)
• main theme (guitar/bass ambience)

Deborah Tiso - "Crimes" dance film (2005)

Details: This short film by Deborah Tiso was created as part of Choreodrome 2005 at The Place. It borrows ideas from the films of Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone, and is concerned with the idea of threeness.

By:
Catherine Bennett, Roswitha Chesher, Dan Coppock, Scott Smith, Deborah Tiso, Marcus Waterloo

Length: 7mins 19s

Downloads: (to download right-click and choose 'save as')
» crimes 1Mbps wmv (66MB, requires windows media player).

Tom Dale - 'Duality' and 'I Infinite' (2004-2005)

These projects started with a concept of duality - of two contrasting performance spaces created with the use of projection as a light source, one space red and the other white.
In the first Duality project, performed in July 2004, we researched the use of animation as a light source in a red space. Listen to a sample from this piece here.

This was followed in October/November of 2004 with performances of I Infinite. This piece is performed in a bleached-out white space with back-projected animation. Tom has performed it many times since, and was recently invited to perform it as part of the White Christmas season at The Place (December 2005). Listen to an excerpt here.

In the spring of 2005 we were funded by the Arts Council to create a revised and extended version of the Duality projected, combining both the red and white spaces, performed by four dancers. This has been shown several times including at venues in Chelmsford and at The Place. Tom was later interviewed on Resonance FM about his work and ideas, where they played the 'trio' section (see pt8 below).

Listen to the following extracts:

• duality 2005 - pt1 - dubby/mechanical ambience - excerpt
• duality 2005 - pt2 - ethereal ambience
• duality 2005 - pt6 - disjointed electro
• duality 2005 - pt8 - trio - finale
  

Hilary Stainsby - Random Dance AWOL (2004)

Choreographed by Hilary Stainsby, this project was performed at The Place as part of Random Dance AWOL, an event showcasing pieces choreographed by the Random dancers.

Listen to the music here - it is very ambient, based on ideas of stasis and passing traffic; and is created almost entirely from resonant electric guitar chords, electronically manipulated.

Room to Manoeuvre (2003)

Here is a selection of my favourite bits of music from the Room to Manoeuvre piece, choreographed by Debbie Tiso:

• A remix of Hermann's Psycho music
  
• Leila's solo - percussion and pizz strings in some kind of crazy time signature
• Marius's solo - a lopsided heavy electro beat in an almost-as-crazy time
• Yalckun's solo - some more pointillist cello

See my previous post about Room to Manoeuvre here, containing links to the 'road movie' film which uses the Psycho remix. There is also a Room to Manoeuvre minisite.

Electronica Selections

This is a collection of some old electronica stuff...

In 2002 I did these experiments with loop-based electronica in a vaguely warpish idiom. Click here to browse these tunes.

Have a few older excerpts still to add.

Debbie Tiso - "Vanishing Point" dance film (2004)

Details: commissioned by EDge Dance Company, shown as part of their 2004 repertory.
Dark and brooding, originally inspired by the B-movie hammer horror genre. No monsters, but an Anthony Gormley, which is much more scary.

Performers: Elinor Baker, Robert Clark, Victoria Debio, Gareth Green, Rosalind Noctor, Keir Patrick, Silvestre Sanchez Strattner, Kuei-Ju Tung, Emma Waller, Matthew Winston, Lui Fung Yi
Camera: Ole Birkeland
Music: Dan Coppock
Editor: Hiroshi Suzuki
Director: Deborah Tiso

Length: 11mins 44s

Downloads: (to download right-click and choose 'save as')
» vanishing point 256kbps wmv (25MB, requires windows media player)

Debbie Tiso - "Beach Studies" dance film (2004)

Details: a pilot film for South East Dance Agency, shown at the Brighton Arts Festival in May 2004. The film and music are inspired by the work of Tati. This has to rank amongst the silliest music I have ever written, and that is saying something. Perhaps it is the melodica, an egregiously silly instrument.

Performers: Lee Clayden, Alice Sara, Scott Smith, Jenny Tattersall
Camera: Roswitha Chesher
Voice Over: Caroline Catz
Music: Dan Coppock
Editor: Hiroshi Suzuki
Director: Deborah Tiso

Length: 8mins 55s

Downloads: (to download right-click and choose 'save as')
» beach studies 256kbps wmv (23MB, requires windows media player)

these links might be useful:
download windows media player for the mac
media player classic - a lightweight and superior version of WMP for windows

Debbie Tiso - "Redrum" dance film (2003)

Details: shown at The Place's Blind8 in October 2003, this film was shot on super8 (using variable shutter speeds) and was submitted 'blind' with the music, without any editing or previewing. The music is constructed from lo-fi retro jazz loops. Performers: Caroline Catz, Robin Dingemans, Jenny Tattersall Camera: Roswitha Chesher Music: Dan Coppock Director: Deborah Tiso Length: 3mins 7s

Downloads: (to download right-click and choose 'save as') » redrum 1Mbps wmv (31MB, requires windows media player).

You can download the music as an mp3 here.

Debbie Tiso - "Road Movie" dance film (2003)

Details: A film interlude in Room to Manoeuvre. The music is a remix of the theme from Hitchcock's Psycho.

Performers: Robin Dingemans, Jamie Dryburgh
Music: Dan Coppock
Editor: Hiroshi Suzuki
Director: Deborah Tiso

Length: 4mins

Downloads: (to download right-click and choose 'save as')
» road movie 1Mbps wmv (31MB, requires windows media player)
» road movie 256kbps wmv (9MB, requires windows media player)

Greets

Hello all! I have started up this blog to post up new music and to collect some old stuff together. Enjoy.