This blog is a record of PhD research, the activities of the Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra (HELO) and other related activities.
You can find out more about Scott at www.scotthewitt.co.uk or @scotthewitt on on email scott 'at' ablelemon.co.uk
HELO plays at the GEMdays festival at Huddersfield University Thursday 29th January 2009. Also playing is Helena Gough.
Free door and should be ace.
More information at http://www.gemdays.co.uk
You can hear a recording of the concert here.
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NameSpace Tv is an application I built for my own use but after a bit of external pressure I have released into the wild. It is designed for debugging and working with OSC style namespaces within a network application.
You can download it unsupported here.
Have fun
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So HELO played and it was great.
You can hear the recording here.
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The first ever HELO gig has been confirmed as Thursday the 13th of November as part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival's Revolutionaries project.
Laptop Revolutions
8pm @ Café Ollo, The Media Centre, Northumberland Street, Huddersfield
HELO and friends, Adam Jansch, Sam Freeman and Tom Mudd, will be performing a variety of works exploring laptop ensemble playing, bounded improvisation and interpreted scores.
Ed Jenks & Matthew Barnard will also be performing on the evening.
More info here.
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Recently I have been given the opportunity to direct a new Laptop Ensemble.
Am really excited about the possibilities and already started looking to organise some touring concerts, however it got me thinking what works should I play.
and thus began some mmm-ing
You see I want the group to be amazing, the playing outstanding, the control perfect and in all people to be impressed. But what repertoire would be appropriate?
You see I can rate a choir based on its performance of say the 'Messiah' and orchestra with its handling of the 'Rite of Spring' but how about a laptop ensemble.
Perhaps it does not matter, this group could define the works by which future ensembles should play and prove there worth ad of course there is always the ongoing dialogue of interpretation which dents even the most 'perfect' performance of any work.
Lets see what comes of this I... and there will be at least two open concerts
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