Monday 30 January 2023, 8pm
The halldorophone is a ‘feedback-cello’; a cello-like instrument with built-in loudspeaker and volume controls for each string, allowing any string to self-oscillate in feedback. The design has been developed by Halldór Úlfarsson since 2008, and he kindly loaned an instrument to the University of Leeds for a year. Five composers and performers have been working with the instrument for several months in open-workshops at Leeds, presenting their work tonight in concert. New pieces by Joy Ingle, Mia Windsor, Dave Riedstra, Billy Harrison, and Scott McLaughlin.
Scott McLaughlin is an Irish (Huddersfield-based) composer and improviser, specialising in the contingencies of feedback-instruments. http://lutins.co.uk/
Joy Ingle is a composer and fiddle player based in Leeds. Incorporating influences from contemporary British folk music, spectral music, field recording practices, and game music. Joy has come to focus on the exploration of landscape, environment and ecology in their compositional practice. https://www.joyingle.com/
Billy Harrison is a cellist and pianist who studied at the RNCM in Manchester and is currently studying at the university of Leeds. He loves performing contemporary compositions and enjoys composing himself when he gets the chance.
Dave Riedstra (b. 1989, Ontario, Canada) works with mostly quiet sound in a variety of modalities including composition, sound art and installation, double bass performance, and code. Focusing variously on material, processes, experience, and transduction, Riedstra hopes to offer an immediate sensation of engagement with entangled environments, networks, assemblages, and milieux. https://daveriedstra.com/
Mia Windsor is a composer and improviser based in Leeds. Her works intricately manipulate timbre in real-time, feeding glitches back into recursive processes to develop further. Mia also makes pipe organ drone music, writes about the creative potential of artificial intelligence in music and plays synth in band Static Caravan. https://miawindsor.com/
