for Fixed Media
Composer: James Mobberley
Year of Composition: 2005
Instrumentation: Fixed Media
Type of Electronics: Fixed
Number of Channels: 2
Duration: 8 minutes
Video Component: None
VOX METALLICA (2006), for fixed 2-channel digital media, uses a collection of recordings of non-singing sounds from several different voices, plus recordings of guitars, bass guitar, drum set, and organ as sound sources. Context being a critical part of our memory and pattern-recognition processes, Vox Metallica plays with familiar and non-familiar juxtapositions of elements from “classical” electro-acoustic and popular music. After all, it’s both a short walk, and a very long walk, from uptown to downtown…
Composer contact: [email protected]
Website (scores, recordings and info): http://jamesmobberleymusic.com