Steve Adam
Steve Adam writes and performs electroacoustic music where live instruments meet computer processing, synthesis and the pulse of popular electronics. His HybriD and collaborative works with re-sound fuse chamber colour with realtime digital sound.
In HybriD, performance data from each player feeds the computer so acoustic gesture and generated sound become inseparable hybrids of the real and the virtual. With re-sound he has helped shape a language that can sit in a nightclub as easily as a concert hall: processed drums, site samples from Venice and Florence, cricket chirps and metallic loops folded into chamber writing. As mixer he brought clarity and a hypnotic hold to the ensemble’s bold reading of Riley’s In C, all electronica beats and electric grit. His ear stays at the seam where contemporary classical craft and club electronics keep talking.
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KAPPA
Italian chamber group Trio Altrove 1.3 joins six Australian composers of contemporary classical music – Steve Adam, Melanie Chilianis, Brendan Colbert, Philip Czaplowski, Paul Moulatlet and Thomas Reiner – in a programme of works written or arranged for the ensemble.
Ephemeral Densities
ephemeral densities is re-sound's third CD, devoted to new Australian work by members Steve Adam, Melanie Chilianis, Paul Moulatlet and Thomas Reiner. It brings together contemporary chamber writing, computer music and popular electronic idioms.
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Conversations
The recording of Conversations is an outcome of a research project at Monash University’s School of Music. Six composers worked with performers to shape this electro-acoustic piece, joining team-based composition, contemporary performance practice, and music technology.
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In C
Melbourne ensemble re-sound gives Terry Riley's minimalist landmark In C its first electroacoustic reading, folding chamber forces into beats, sequences and electric bass and guitar.