Friday Garden
Programme Note
Friday Garden is an hour-long, static video view of a summer garden complete with birdsong and other sounds. The accompanying soundtrack is a surround-sound mix of 2 long solo Reson8 pieces performed by Jeff Cloke at the Shunt Vaults in London in October 2009.
Reson8 is a laptop-hosted software setup using Ableton Live! and some spectral plugins, controlled in real-time with a MIDI controller. In simple terms, input sounds are transformed into output sounds: the input sounds may be live (microphone) or pre-recorded (Jeff only uses spoken words for his pre-recorded samples). These input sounds (live or recorded) may themselves be sampled, split and looped on the fly, and the output spectrum, texture, volume and spatial position are 'composed' as the performance progresses. The resulting soundscape is generally dream-like, complex, and slow-moving: often described as 'ambient' or 'drone', but in fact unique.
Technical Requirements
Standard DVD Home video setup with 5.1 (Dolby 2/3.1) surround speaker system. The video has no menus, and will loop continuously.
