An improvised sonic performance imbued with the seriousness of play, photo by Yvette Hawkins

An improvised sonic performance imbued with the seriousness of play, by Nick Williams

This performance may or may not draw upon my enthusiasm for reel-to-reel tape recorders as gestural instruments; flocking and swarming; music concrète; and cold, hard, digital noise.

Nick Williams is a PhD research candidate at Newcastle University. His current research interests include electronic music in cross-disciplinary performance, emergence in complex systems, and improvisation. Nick is also founder and co-director of theybreakinpieces, an interdisciplinary performance company based in the UK.


Last updated: 04:01 29/04/2009 author: Yvette Rose