25 research outputs found
Berlin performances at Neu West Germany / Sowieso / Asterion Festival at ROTOR
No full textDocumentation available online here: http://www.paulstapleton.net/portfolio/pultz-melbye-rose-stapleton-tri
Rite (music album by Ens Ekt)
No full textreleased October 10, 2019Ens EktSimon Rose: Baritone Saxophone.Paul Stapleton: BoSS, Tromba Marina, MiSS, VASBPI.Adam Pultz Melbye: Double Bass.Recorded by Craig Jackson at Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, March 2018.Mixed and mastered by Paul Stapleto
Ens Ekt UK tour
No full textMusic Improvisation Performance at the following seven professional and academic venues:IKLECTIK, London;Hundred Years Gallery, London; Bournemouth University; The Old England, Bristol; Queen’s Head, Monmouth; Safehouse, Brighton; Sussex Humanities Lab. Tour funded in part by Jazz Danmark (Denmark).Ens Ekt features the experimental musical inventions of Paul Stapleton (Californian born, Belfast-based) placed in dialogue with the circular breathed multiphonics and harmonic textures of Simon Rose (English born, Berlin-based) and the resonant gestural and spectrally focused playing of Adam Pultz Melbye (Danish born, Berlin-based). The group explores emergent timbral, dynamic and social musical structures through improvisation in both performance and installation contexts
Ens Ekt (VR)
No full text360 video documentation of Ens Ekt in live performance at the Sonic Lab, Belfast. Ens Ekt features the experimental musical inventions of Paul Stapleton (Californian born, Belfast-based) placed in dialogue with the circular breathed multiphonics and harmonic textures of Simon Rose (English born, Berlin-based) and the resonant gestural and spectrally focused playing of Adam Pultz Melbye (Danish born, Berlin-based). The group explores emergent timbral, dynamic and social musical structures through improvisation in both performance and installation contexts. 'Ens Ekt VR' premiered at Immersive Technologies showcase, NI Science Festival 2019.<br/
Ens Ekt California Tour
No full textMusic Improvisation Performance at the following seven professional and academic venues:Luggage Store, San Francisco; Pro-Arts, Oakland; Center for New Music, San Francisco; Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University; Piano Kitchen, Santa Barbara; Furstwurld, Joshua Tree; University of California, San Diego. Tour funded in part by Jazz Danmark (Denmark). Ens Ekt features the experimental musical inventions of Paul Stapleton (Californian born, Belfast-based) placed in dialogue with the circular breathed multiphonics and harmonic textures of Simon Rose (English born, Berlin-based) and the resonant gestural and spectrally focused playing of Adam Pultz Melbye (Danish born, Berlin-based). The group explores emergent timbral, dynamic and social musical structures through improvisation in both performance and installation contexts
Echo of Species 04
No full textThis episode features unreleased work from Adam Pultz Melbye, spoken words by Silvia Andrade and materials from the Donella Meadows Project._ _ _Adam Pultz Melbye's words about his participation:"I am very grateful to the Donella Meadows Project for granting me permission to use excerpts of her important essay Leverage Points – Places to intervene in a system. The text is a strikingly clear exposition of many of the complex challenges facing us, but also offers paths to a solution. What seems central to me, is that the idea of economic and material growth needs to be challenged. Otherwise there is no hope for humanity. That is a blunt and dark prophecy, but I fail to see how unlimited growth on a planet with finite resources is possible, let alone desirable. I asked the brilliant visual artist Silvia Andrade to record the text. Silvia’s artistic practice includes spoken word and I find her voice and clear intonation very fitting to the project. The music on this podcast is a collection of unreleased work dating back two years. I would like to thank Madelynne Cornish at Bogong Centre for Sound Culture for the stellar recording job on the last piece.Please note that the text presented here is not the full text of Leverage Points. However, I hope that the listener’s interest has been triggered and suggest anyone to read the full essay, available online.Please visit the Donella Meadows project at donellameadows.org/Silvia Andrade’s work can be found here: www.silviaandrade.com/Courtesy of the Donella Meadows Project at the Academy for Systems Change - A project dedicated to Donella Meadows’ inspiring vision for systems change.
New Communication (installation and performances by Ens Ekt)
No full text30th 31st August 2019NEW COMMUNICATIONComposed and performed by ENS EKT:Simon Rose baritone saxophonePaul Stapleton sound sculptureAdam Pultz Melbye double bassInstallation and performance.30th, 31st August 2019Installation 17.00 – 21.00 Trio performances 18.30 and 20.30. Tickets 10 Euros (including re-entry).Artist Homeshttp://www.artist-homes.com Supported by Initiative Neue Müsik, BerlinJourneying underground, audiences will experience ENS EKT’s intense, immersive sound within the cavernous spaces of the WW2 bunker. Moving through the complex we encounter each module/ musician animating the space through networked interaction. The four hour installation is circular and can be accessed and exited at any point. ENS EKT will also give two trio performances in the bunker’s Concert Salle.<br/
The Virtual is Material: Music Improvisation in Post-Digital Ecologies
No full textLink to performance: https://vimeo.com/640946914/cf858052e1Abstract: This performance-lecture was originally presented at the DRHA (Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts) conference in 2021 in Berlin. 3BP (Paul Stapleton, Adam Pultz Melbye and John Bowers) presents three views on the creation of an online performance ecology that allows the trio to improvise together, despite living in three separate locations. Rather than trying to overcome the instabilities and artefacts introduced by the fluctuations in data transfer, 3BP describe how such properties become native to the trios understanding of its own practice, affording new areas of creative exploration and consideration. The trio draws on Karen Barad’s use of terms such as diffraction and apparatus to discuss how music-making and improvisation embedded in run-away technologies affords emergent behaviour that transcends reflection to allow for diverse and unstable non-linear performances.BiosPaul Stapleton is an improviser and sound artist originally from Southern California. He designs and performs with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures, custom made electronics and found objects in settings ranging from Echtzeitmusik venues in Berlin to the annual NIME conference. Paul is currently Professor of Music at SARC in Belfast, where he teaches and supervises research in new musical instrument design, music performance, sound design and critical improvisation studies. www.paulstapleton.net Adam Pultz Melbye is a double bass player, composer and audio programmer based in Berlin, currently undertaking a practice-led PhD at Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast.&nbsp; Adam has released three solo albums and appear on another 40+ releases. He has created sound installations, composed music for film, theatre and dance, and performed in Europe, the US, Japan and Australia, his work appearing at Murray Art Museum Albury (Australia), The Danish National Gallery and Wien Modern (Austria). www.adampultz.com John Bowers is an artist-researcher with an academic background in the social and computing sciences, design, music and critical theory. As an improvising musician, he works with modular synthesisers, home-brew electronics, reconstructions of antique image and sound-making devices, self-made software, field recordings, esoteric sensor systems, and spoken text. He often combines performance with walking and the investigation of selected sites to research an imagined discipline he calls ‘mythogeosonics’. He has performed at festivals including the Venice Biennale, Experimental Intermedia New York, Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel Berlin, Piksel Bergen, Electropixel Nantes, BEAM London, Aldeburgh Festival and Spill Ipswich, and toured with the Rambert Dance Company performing David Tudor’s music to Merce Cunningham’s Rainforest
Sustainable digital fabrication in NIME: Nine sustainability strategies for DMI production
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