Nightports at Hull Minster [video]

Mark Slater, Adam Martin, Matthew Barnard

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Abstract

'Nightports at Hull Minster' is a practice-research project that explores site-specific composition, production, performance and real-time audio spatialisation. Underpinning this research is the creation of a new 30-minute original musical work for live electronics and live spatialisation based on the time-keeping function of the Minster's bell tower. Adopting Nightports' self-imposed restriction of single sound sources for each project, this version of their work focussed on recordings of the bells in the bell tower and the minute sounds of the clock mechanism. The project gave rise to a number of different outputs, including: 1) a large-scale live performance in Hull Minster itself; 2) a video artefact; 3) a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3; 4) a release on a record label; and 5) a series of academic papers exploring the technical and aesthetic dimensions of the spatialised qualities of this approach to composition, production and performance.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherFreedom Festival Arts Trust
Media of outputFilm
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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