Emergence @ the Turner Contemporary

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:45:46 +0000

Here’s a video clip from April’s performance at the Turner Contemporary. Previews of pieces from my next EP up this week.

Jim Perkins & Em Cooper Emergence Live @ the Turner Contemporary from bigoandtwigetti on Vimeo.

Emergence at the Turner Contemporary this Friday

admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:20:08 +0000

You are warmly invited to the debut performance of Emergence on Friday 20th April, at Turner Contemporary, Margate. There will be 3 performances of the work between 6 and 10pm.

Emergence is the culmination of a year-long project that started with the creation of simple musical ideas and developed into a collaborative audiovisual performance featuring oil paint animation by Em Cooper. The performance will premiere two pieces the first ‘Water States’ is a piece for solo piano inspired by Emergent phenomena within the changing states of water performed by Olga Stezhko. The second ‘Emergence’ is an audiovisual work featuring visceral oil paint animation performed by soprano Red Gray.

Emergence

admin — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:47:15 +0000

I’ve been working on this exciting project for a while now. It’s a collaboration between myself and artist/animator Em Cooper inspired by Emergence. I will be posting more about the creative concept behind the piece in future posts but the basic idea is that we start the composition off with some simple musical ideas and then through the process of feedback from all artists involved we take it in turns to add to the work and make changes to it so that it slowly evolves without anyone being able to predict the form of the final piece. We have posted some images, video and audio from the early stages of the composition which you can check out in this post. As the work changes we will continue to post updates so that you can see and hear the work as it evolves.

You can watch the video here:

and listen to audio here:

New Music

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:19:24 +0000

I should probably be posting up pictures from my recent recordings and rehearsals, but every time I go I forget to do this, must be something to do with concentrating on getting the music right.

Instead of that I’ve decided to share some mixes from Apartament 18 which I’ve been listening to loads recently, a mix from 8 tracks and another recent discovery from Son Lux

We Are Rising (Instrumentals) by Son Lux

Sketches & New Works

admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:08:32 +0000

I’ve put up some new audio clips of sketches and studies from my next ep, and also some early ideas for a series of performances I’m doing on Emergence, more about that soon. You can listen here.

New Scores and Performances

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:13 +0000

I’ve been working on a new performance series in collaboration with animator Em Cooper. The series kicks off with a performance at The Turner Contemporary, with other dates TBC. I’ve also been working on a follow up to Grains, featuring some new works for digitally manipulated, guitar, strings, piano and voice. The Ep will be released with the performance scores and a series of limited edition graphic scores.

New Scores up on Bandcamp

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:25:03 +0000

Happy New Year! So I finally finished up some of the scores from Grains. If you want to have a go at playing them you can download them from Bandcamp.

Hi Res downloads of Grains available from Linn Records

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:22:08 +0000

For those of you who like Hi res audio B&T have recently sorted out distribution of high quality studio masters of my debut album ‘Grains’ through Linn Records. You can download the tracks here and check out more of what Linn have to offer here:

Free Download of Microseq ‘Green’ Remix

admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:08:57 +0000

There’s a free download of my remix of Microseq’s Green available on Bandcamp if you like that sort of thing.

Bigo & twigetti are going to be releasing a track from the forthcoming ep of Green remixes, every two weeks over the next two weeks. They will all be available as free downloads until Mid December. I’ll be posting here when the next ones are out.

Chopin Prelude on Beautiful Song of the Week

admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:22:06 +0000

My re-working of Chopin’s E Minor Prelude was featured on this weeks ‘Beautiful Song of the Week‘.

BSotW posts some interesting music from Erik Satie to the Foo Fighters. Definitely worth a look.