electronic music
and digital arts festival
foligno june 25.26

AMBROSE FIELD

 Ambrose Field, senior lecturer in music at the University of York and composer, is specialized in quadraphonic, ottophonic and soundscaping according to the ‘musique concrete’ of Pier Schaeffer who thought of sound in its completeness; in contraposition to the abstract, music written and thought through its abstraction (harmony, counterpoints, notations and logical devices), the listening of music in all of its aspects (audio onset, duration, development, density, trend, tone, frequency and scale).
The sophisticated sound tissue in ‘Storm’ therefore gathers the sounds of a journey around the world with recordings of desolate spaces, unique personal stories and urban protests, winning at the International Prix Arts Electronica, Ambrose then also assembles the first electronic orchestra, ‘Worldscape Laptop Orchestra” experimenting in sound making and execution.
The “concrete” approach of Ambrose Field according to BBC 3 is “music pushing against boundaries and aspiring to the visual”, especially cinematic in “Being Dufay” (ECM 2009) a collaboration with tenor John Potter, which recaptures the work of the Flemish Guillaume Dufay which becomes hauntingly beautiful much like Aldous Huxely’s “Brave New World” and the ‘savage’ John who reads Shakespeare.


2002, Brazil: all the passion and drama of a musical masterpiece!
Today though it's hats off to our hosts Italy for their success, and for having the foresight to commission the ‘Being Dufay’ pilot in the first place.

ambrosefield.wordpress.com
Last.fm - Ambrose Field
University of York - Ambrose Field
www.beingdufay.com