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David Ross, Plonk Ensemble - Stones

from Stones (1968) ~ Christian Wolff by E42.A8

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St.Georges Church, Colegate, Norwich,
4/8/17

This performance of Stones was prepared
especially for a concert marking
12 months since NNSAC’s
(www.nnsac.com/about/) inaugural Plink
Plonk show (featuring David Ross and John
Butcher), celebrating the collective’s highly
successful first year promoting innovative
improvised music events in Norwich.
The Plonk Ensemble comprises the participants
of the ‘Stones’ workshop lead by David
Ross, which met for the first time several
hours before playing at the evening concert.
In the workshop the group explored the
range of acoustic sounds we were able to
produce from the materials gathered and
also created some piezo contact microphones
to explore the sonic possibilities of
amplified signals created from the action of
different sizes of stones on/in various surfaces
and receptacles.

We experimented with frame drums, a metal
tube at various angles, a bucket of water,
vibrating singing bowls, sandpaper and a
semi-acoustic guitar etc. blowing, tapping,
rolling and scraping. Audio from some of
the amplified signals was used for live processing
and also to create control voltages
for stimulating an analogue modular synthesizer.
The resulting audio comprises a combination
of acoustic, amplified, processed and
electronic sources.

The structure of the music was developed
collectively in the workshop and informed
by the most successful sounds and combinations
that we managed to discover.

The Plonk Ensemble:
Matthew Andrews, Andy Butler, Alex
Crocker, Jon Gatiss, Judith Goodman, John
Kramarchuk, Paul Levy, Michael Page, Chris
Richford and David Ross
Recording made by Oliver Payne, David
Ross, Judith Goodman

Mixed by Oliver Payne

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from Stones (1968) ~ Christian Wolff, released October 16, 2018

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