Simeon Nelson’s Wellcome Trust funded Anarchy in the Organism exists as an installation and live concert-hall versions. Initially installed at the new Macmillan Cancer Centre, University College London Hospitals (UCLH), running for twelve months, it was later developed for live performance as a new composition for Eb Clarinet with Live & Algorithmic Sound Projection and Responsive Video.
Central to the concept of the music is the idea of interruption, interference and disturbance. It uses a rhythmic technique of shifting accelerando/rallentando effects that mimic the cycles of life. Breathing, tension and relaxation, physical and psychological time all come under the auspices of the technique. Definitive pulses quickly becomes perceptually complex and/or chaotic. In essence, the composition modulates both pulse and time whereby a series of accelerandos and rallentandos are layered over a fixed pulse.
Music for the installation is an evolving algorithmic composition that is layered with four simultaneous video projections. The sound is projected using 'whispering windows' audio diffusion. Eight Feonic transducer speaker drivers are attached to the glass of the windows - the windows then function as loudspeakers transmitting the sound of the installation directly into the street.
LINKS
Anarchy in the Organism - complete score
Anarchy in the Organism - Simeon Nelson website
Cancer Trees - Simon Walker-Samuel
Whispering Windows - Feonic
