carmelfreeman
carmelfreeman
carmelfreeman
Composer. Improviser. Sound Artist.
THE ACT OF WINNING
A pair of shoes, their identity concealed by a cloak of toilet paper, glue and scraps. The shoes are in control: manipulating the voice of Nike creator Phil Knight, disintegrating a video of Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi throwing his shoes at then-US president George W. Bush.
Created and performed by Carmel Freeman
ROOM
Breath is process. Air enters and exits the lungs. Cyclic movements. Repetitions. Follow your breath as you listen. Learn from your breathing. Place yourself in a room that is silenced by noise. Place yourself in a room that echoes with silence. Give yourself room to explore different modes of listening. Give yourself permission to disorganise your hearing. See what follows you.
Sander Bos - Harp
Composed by Carmel Freeman
OISEAU
Oiseau/tsipor/vogel/bird mean the same thing but feature their own musical activity. The discreet sound components of the words are graphed using phonetic categories for speech sounds and assigned a register. Players must, through their instrument, connect to the timbres of these utterances and splinter the divide between language and music.
Nina Künzel - voice
Agnes Eyja Gunnarsdóttir - violin
Jan Zygmunt - cello
Carmel Freeman - composition, piano, foot flute
NUDE
Everything that will happen has happened and is happening. The flesh of time is revealed by an awareness of its non-linearity. Capturing this infinite moment proves difficult for a video camera struggling not to travel forward in time.
Carmel Freeman - Composition, Video Manipulation, Guitar, Radio, Electronics Nina Künzel - Voice Mireia Costa Viladrich - Violin
LISTENING IS UNHEARING
Scientists have demodulated recently discovered signal transmissions received by trees as antennae. For the first time, this sound world is untangled and unmuted. Is this communication? Is this entertainment? Who owns these sounds?
SIMULATION
Consciousness can be simulated in a computer. Nano-machines transformed planets into computers. A single planetary computer runs millions of ancestor simulations. With simulated consciousnesses outnumbering biological ones, I am likely a simulation.
ONE POINT FIVE METERS
A simple measurement has taken on a completely new meaning. As well as being performed in quarantine, the musical gestures are shaped by a social distancing architecture that has forced us to be both linked and detached, intertwined and isolated.
Maria Martpay - Marimba
Mayuko Takeda - Bass Clarinet
Ola Kwiatkowska - Violin
Chema Martinez Martinez - Violoncello
Composed by Carmel Freeman