Video still from live performance © Tate 2005

Replika

Achim Wollscheid was commissioned to make a new 'aural' score for The Sound of Heaven and Earth.

Performance recording: Replika by Achim Wollscheid
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An initial sound (by the ensemble or the audience) is recorded transformed and re-played. The resulting sonic structure serves as an (audible) score for the ensemble to continue. The continuation is again recorded, transformed and replayed. Thus the piece will result in a continuing interchange.

Achim Wollscheid, 2005

The score itself was an interactive process by which the ensemble played, which was in turn, recorded directly onto a computer, operated by Achim Wollscheid sitting in the audience, running PD (Pure Data). The sound was processed in real-time by software on the computer and played back to the room. The musicians would then respond and transform their reply. And so the piece evolved as a live dialogue between musicians and composer.

Instrumentation included: Bass by John Edwards, Bass Saxophone by Tony Bevan, Electronics by Andrew Morgan, Electronics and Flutes by David Toop, Harp by Rhodri Davies and Cello by Neil Heyde. The ensemble was put together by Andrew Morgan.

Produced in collaboration with Tate Modern, the Goethe Institute London and the London Consortium.