Jonathan Impett's music reflects particular interests in the roles of improvisation and new technology; he was awarded a Prix Electronica in 1994.  He will perform a programme of music including compositions by Nic Collins and Jonathan Harvey, finishing with his own composition Inside Drum / Mad Things (1999). The material for Inside Drum is derived entirely from the sound and acoustic properties of a particular instrument - a shaman's drum. It is brought to life by the physical and "musical" actions performed on the meta-trumpet, which constitute the environment for a population of evolving melodic agents. trumpet, sensors, computer, composition and material are a single instrument. Within this "mediational space" is performed another piece - Mad Things - likewise derived from a single "non-musical" percussion instrument. In this case, however, the self-organization is generated by the content of the sound itself.

Ernest Edmonds uses a computer as a logic-based generative device to make time-based abstract digital video. The underlying logic is used to provide a structure in time, which is the basis of the generation of the display. The individual images are very simple. It is the sequence of colours and forms that contains the complexity and interest. As the sequence develops, midi signals are generated which can inform other devices, such as a sound system, about the evolution of the work. In this piece, Northampton, the images are projected onto a sheet of suspended plastic. Thus the images hang in free space.

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