Dr Mark Slater's Outputs (3)

Transmission strategies and blossoming participants in my composed music (2020)
Thesis
Catherin, B. Transmission strategies and blossoming participants in my composed music. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223492

This commentary accompanies a portfolio of six compositions written between 2017 and 2019 with different co-makers. It discusses the core question explored in this portfolio: how the idiosyncrasies of the participants (makers, performers, audience m... Read More about Transmission strategies and blossoming participants in my composed music.

Distance (2020)
Digital Artefact
Slater, M., Martin, A., & Hallett, M. (2020). Distance. [https://nightports.bandcamp.com/album/distance]

'Distance' was made after the Nightports w/ Betamax album was already complete – we went back through the original recordings to check for parts we’d missed, stones left unturned and sounds we’d previously left alone. These tracks contain a new array... Read More about Distance.

Nightports w/ Betamax (2020)
Digital Artefact
Slater, M., Martin, A., & Hallett, M. (2020). Nightports w/ Betamax. [MP3; CD; Vinyl]

Nightports is based on a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician can be used. Nothing else. These sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered a... Read More about Nightports w/ Betamax.