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Kaleidoscope

by Peter Batchelor

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1.
Kaleidoscope: Cycle - Fissure 09:51
2.
Kaleidoscope: Cycle - Nebula 13:21
3.
Kaleidoscope: Cycle - Pulse 08:07
4.
Kaleidoscope: Cycle - Fuse 09:44
5.
Kaleidoscope: Arcade 08:37

about

The idea for the Kaleidoscope works came from the composers' memories of playing with the prismatic toy of the same name as a child. The toy, of course, consists of colored beads in a tube of mirrors, whose reflections generate complex symmetrical patterns that change dramatically in density and texture as the tube is turned. With these pieces the aim was to emulate such dynamic spatial activity through sound, distributing fragmentary materials in space and immersing the listener in a rich and ever-changing sonic environment. They have been composed for an eight-channel listening environment, the speakers arranged equally in a circle surrounding the audience, and the spatial language consists of peripheral, rotational, oppositional and envelopment activities and relationships (in contrast to left/right and back/front as in stereo works and traditional concert diffusion). The works should therefore be spatially and musically coherent irrespective of audience position or orientation, and listeners should receive similar subjective weightings (relative levels) of front, sides and rear wherever they happen to be situated (even if the positions and trajectories of spatial gestures are perceived differently by each).

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released November 11, 2013

All compositions and sounds by Peter Batchelor

All works on this release with the exception of track 5 were completed in the Music, Technology, and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University and/or the composer's home studio. Track 5 was completed at the Electroacoustic Music Studios at the University of Birmingham.

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Peter Batchelor is a composer and sound artist living in Birmingham, UK. He has studied with Jonty Harrison and Andrew Lewis and lectures at De Montfort University, Leicester. Predominantly working with fixed-media, his output ranges from two-channel 'tape' compositions for concert diffusion to large-scale multi-channel installation work. ... more

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