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Moorings (electrocoustic composition, 5.1-channels, 11:22)
David Berezan
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound), University of Manchester; 2014 Mar 02 (premiere).2014.
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Abstract
Moorings is the second piece in my series of works that explores maritime soundworlds. The first, Buoy (2011), was concerned with sounds, environments and concepts arising from sea buoys. Moorings, on the other hand, develops a music and soundworld out of the sounds of maritime vessels' mooring rings, lines (or hawsers) and chains, as well as the sounds of boat hulls moving against the different kinds of bumpers found alongside docks and piers, boat engines and the interaction of water in, around and underneath harbour berths and vessels. All sound material used in the work was recorded in Visby Harbour (Gotland, Sweden) in 2012 and the work was completed in the electroacoustic music studios at the Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC, Sweden), EMS in Stockholm (Sweden) and University of Manchester (UK). Subsequent performances include Sonic Fusion Festival, Salford, April 2014.