Jez riley French - '...audible silence'

egcd028 - Jez riley French - 'audible silence'

*69min + taiyo yuden cdr with photo prints etc / limited edition of 280 copies*

Jez riley French - audible silence - enter (mp3 extract)

after several months of living with these recordings & waiting for them to feel 'ready' this new release if now completed. As some of you aleady know these recordings capture sounds gathered in Kettle's Yard - Cambridge, the JdP building - Oxford & several sites in the Czech republic (Skolska 28 gallery, Josef Sudek attelier etc).

The three resulting tracks represent, as far as i'm concerned, the music of these spaces using elements such as the sound of vibrating tables / surfaces, floors, empty rooms & heating systems filtered through various surfaces & objects.

more details can be found here: audible silence edition

mp3 audio extract: click here

(more info & writings to be added over the coming weeks)

price / postage options

UK £6.00 GBP rest of world £8.00 GBP

a review of '....audible silence' on Brian Olewnick blog can be found here (nb. one small thing to point out - an answer to Brian's pondering in the first sentance: none of the recordings are processed at all - I never process my recordings as i'm always fascinated by the sounds I explore as they are).

audible silence - Jdp, Oxford (extract)

nb: due to the low frequencies of certain surface vibrations playback via laptop / computer speakers might not result in representative playback.

audible silence - JdP, oxford (mp3 extract).mp3

....in place

(click here to explore field recording, audible silence & sonic architecture)

....listen

(click here to listen to MP3 extracts by Jez riley French - field recordings, intuitive composition etc)

photographic scores

. I am currently involved in a series of personal scores forming the heart of a new strand of my work.

bruxelles photographic score # 3
bruxelles photographic score # 4

estonia photographic score # 4estonia photographic score 3

duet # 4 (part)


duet # 4 (part)



solo 2008 / 2009



solo 2008 / 2009

a method for compositional scores based on photographic images.

Several of these scores are currently in circulation:

There has always been a strong emotive and intellectual link for me between the visual and the audible. My approach to photography has connected with those ‘other’ impulses and inspirations that perhaps are more commonly associated with forms of musical expression. The images themselves are concerned not with the precise capture of a physical space or object but rather they are my way of an emotive visual response to a location or experience, often taken in conjunction with my explorations with conventional and extended field recording methods.

During the time i've been working on this process I have assembled several images into one piece, experimented with applying certain conventional musical notation to the images & various other processes. In a sense, I moved further away from the point, from the musicality of the images during this time. Perhaps it was necessary ?

It is my hope that the direct and simple approach that I feel is the most successful way for me to explore this form of visual composition offers the performer an enjoyable, interesting and rewarding experience.

The scores are supplied with notes that are intended as an outline of an initial way to approach the basic aspects of the form, however they are by no means restrictive.

scores are supplied as A4 sheet per part.

If you would like to purchase a score or perform one of the pieces please contact me at:

tempjez@hotmail.com

intuitive composition

full text soon.

a term I came up with in the early 1990's which is related to focused improvisation but feels closer to describing what it is that I do in performance - mostly....