Nick Williams

Alternative / Experimental / Electronica

Newcastle, United Kingdom

News Pipe

16.4.08 Granular Improv 1.1 This improvisation was recorded using my Max/MSP improv patch. The patch now has a human user interface (UC-33e for the geeks) and goes some way toward transposing the performers gestures. This is a giant leap forward from the first version of the patch that was used to perform the original Granular Improv track

13.4.08 Granular Improv is a short improvisation using the bare bones of a Max/MSP patch I'm working on. I'll keep posting short improvs using the patch as it evolves. It's not very user friendly at the mo but seems to have the potential for some interesting sounds. Anyhoo, it's there if you want to hear what I'm up to. Bonza.

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Pipe Watch

Present and future pipe:

theybreakinpieces: Super-Art company with Dr.Paul Stapleton and Mona McCarthy. More info at the company MySpace;
Electro Moosick: Electronica from Electronia with Mona McCarthy;
Dashiel Hammett: Neo-Nailbomb Improv with Adam Parkinson BA MA PSP;
SDF collective: Sex music. Check out the SDF MySpace for tip-top-toons;
Grotesque Theatre: Filth-prov with Yiorgos Bakalos. This beast is young;
Superwaker: Anus-Vox quartet with John Ferguson, Adam Parkinson, Paul Bell;
Music in Cross-disciplinary performance PhD: Knowledge-Blob making at Newcastle University;
My Digit: Folksports with Caroline Pugh. Here's the MyDigitSpace;
Space Race: The Greatest (and least prolific) Band In The World . This band doesn't exist but still manages to be super awesome, with Simon Bowes.

Cameo pipe:

The FATHom Project: Guest Artist with FATHom whilst Adam Benjamin choreographs the hell out of us. Premier of 'Slight' March 2008+2009 'Slight' Tour.

Past pipe:

Dialogic Performance Improvisation Ensemble: One-off performance with a group of brightly burning old flames at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University, Belfast. 15th November 2007;
HearImprov: Improvisation ensemble directed by Adinda Van't Klooster. Performance at the Sage, Gateshead, October 2007;
Cab: Solo electronic improvisation. circa 2003.

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