Date: Saturday 29 January 2005 Duration: 15 + 27 minutes + software download Venue: Tate Modern Event: The Sound of Heaven and Earth Composer's Notes Performance Archive Compositional Score Composer's Biography The Sound of Heaven and Earth Event Overview d_ cultuRe Umbrella Season

Composer's Notes

Replika by Achim Wollscheid

An initial sound (by the ensemble or the audience) is recorded transformed and re-played. The resulting sonic structure serves as an (audible) score for the ensemble to continue. The continuation is again recorded, transformed and replayed. Thus the piece will result in a continuing interchange.

Performance Archive

Instrumentation included: Bass by John Edwards, Bass Saxophone by Tony Bevan, Electronics by Andrew Morgan and David Toop, Harp by Rogeri Davis, Cello by Neil Heyde and Interactive Interface / Electronic Transformation by Achim Wollscheid.

Performance Recording:

Replika - re-mastered performance / score 15 min 128kb mp3

This file is in 128 kb MP3 format. Clicking once on the download button will download the file to your default download folder. To select where to download the files to your computer on a (PC) right click and select save target as / on a (Mac) ctrl click and select download link to disk (download will take a few minutes). Then open the files in any mp3 compatible player.

This Performance Recording, is licensed under an Attribution-Non-Commercial Share-Alike 1.0 (UK) Creative Commons Licence. As licenced via a contributors agreement with the original authors. Terms of the Licence: You are free to copy and distribute the work in conjunction with this licence. You must give the original author credit. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. See here for further information on Creative Commons.

See here for The Sound of Heaven and Earth Event Overview, including biographies for the musicians. Produced in collaboration with Tate Modern, the Goethe Institute London and the London Consortium.

Compositional Score

The scores could take any form, from verbal instruction, found sound and poetry, to other music, so long as it is delivered exclusively in audio, with no written text, conducting, physical cues or gestures.

Audio Score:

The Score itself was an interactive process by which the ensemble played... which was in turn, recorded directly onto a computer, operated by Achim sitting in the audience, running PD (Pure Data). The sound was processed in real-time and played back to the room, from speakers at the back of the auditorium. The musicians would then respond and transform their reply. And so the piece evolved a live dialogue between musicians and composer. See above under Performance Archive for the final version performed live at Tate Modern.

Immediately below is a recording of Achim Wollscheid rehearsing with the ensemble on the day of the performance. See further below to download and install the interactive application Achim developed for the work.

Replika - rehearsal 27 min 128kb mp3

This file is in 128 kb MP3 format. Clicking once on the download button will download the file to your default download folder. To select where to download the files to your computer on a (PC) right click and select save target as / on a (Mac) ctrl click and select download link to disk (download will take a few minutes). Then open the files in any mp3 compatible player.

This Performance Recording, is licensed under an Attribution-Non-Commercial Share-Alike 1.0 (UK) Creative Commons Licence. As licenced via a contributors agreement with the original authors. Terms of the Licence: You are free to copy and distribute the work in conjunction with this licence. You must give the original author credit. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. See here for further information on Creative Commons.

Download components of Achim Wollscheid's transformative score. The interactive score is a downloadable application developed by Achim, for audiences to further engage in the dialogical structures and intentions inherent in the original work. This download package includes a fully functional version of the PD software (for PC - see link for further information regarding Mac and Linux versions), the source code / patch for replika, as well as PD tutorials should you wish to expand upon the patch.

Go here to Download : Replika Patch / pd_tate_w32.zip

Software Licence: This PD patch is licenced under a GNU General Public Licence, which enables users to run, study, improve and re-distribe. Any copy, distribution or transformation of the patch must be for non-commercial purposes only and must include the source code as well as retain the GNU licence. See here for further information on GNU licences.

Composer's Biography

Achim Wollscheid: artist, writer, teacher. Creates both recorded and installation work, collaborating since the early 80's, with a variety of artists and musicians. His work in sound has led him to an interest in the relation between sound, light and architectural space, which he continues to pursue and investigate. He is a member of SELEKTION, an organisation for the production and distribution of information systems. Works and lives in Frankfurt A.M., Germany.
http://www.selektion.com

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