New Album Released

Images of Portugal

Released on Bandcamp 30 Sept 2020

https://davidhirst1.bandcamp.com/releases

7 Tracks include the 6 parts of the Portugal Suite and Imagining Viseu

25 minutes duration

Portuguese Suite on Acoustic Frontiers

Portuguese Suite on Acoustic Frontiers, with Ralph Hopper on CKCU FM 93.1 Canada

https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/46/48289.html

Sonochrome I at Seen Sound

SeenSound, 4 July 2020

Loop Back Bar

23 Meyers Place, Melbourne 3000

The SeenSound: Visual/Music series provides a space for the presentation of short visual/music works. SeenSound commenced in 2011, curated by Melbourne-based audio-visual artists Brigid Burke and Mark Pedersen, and is proudly supported by Loop Bar

Recording of video stream:

Sonochrome I – A video art music work by David Hirst, see:

From 22’12” to 28’51” 

ACMC 2020 Performance

My video art music work called Pierre and Frank was included in the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2020 concert series:

https://acmc2020.com/poster_10.html

This two movement piece uses the Various-Gen system I outlined in my presentation. The video art content was generated using 3D software I wrote with shapes activated by the music. Here is an extract from the program notes for the work:

“Presented in two distinct parts, this work is dedicated to two of the most original composers of the twentieth century: Pierre Boulez and Frank Zappa. Although their life trajectories were quite different, one an orchestral conductor and the other a rock musician, their paths crossed through their compositional activities. …”

Programmed in Concert 2, Pierre and Frank can be viewed as the 5th work in a video record of the concert from 35’27” to 43’35” on this Youtube video of the Concert:

ACMC 2020 Conference – Presentation

This year, the Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC 2020) was conducted as an online conference at the Australian National University, from July 3–11, 2020.

Gave a video presentation, titled Vari-Gen: A Generative System for Creating Musical Variations Using Max, Bach, and Cage in Real-Time

https://acmc2020.com/poster_9.html

This talk demonstrated a new system for generating variations on segments of music that have been previously recorded or composed and saved as MIDI files.
The system builds on work presented at the ACMC 2018 Perth conference which was documented in the paper Hacking Music Notation with Bach and Cage (Hirst, 2018), but actually functions in real-time.

The talk runs from 00’20” to 11’39” on this Youtube recording of the session stream. It is the first presentation on the video: