Friday, May 16, 2008










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....

sonic architecture

full text soon

a term I first used in a public setting back in 2000 - related to the audible aspects of structures.

residencies

July 2011 - Topolo, Italy

June 2011 - Mullae Art Space, Seoul, Korea

April / May 2010 - Nodar / Binaural, Portugal

March 2010 - Port Meirion, Wales

October 2009 - Nodar / Binaural, Portugal

Sept / Oct 2009 - vestiges of industry, Czech republic

September 2009 - Mayrau, Czech republic

July 2009 - Connected 09, Pollau, Austria

June 2009 - Q-02, Brussels, Belgium

May 2009 - Moks, Estonia

October 2008 / April 2009 - Artist in residence @ Hull school of Art & Design

June 2008 - Skolska 28 / Open studio (full residency) - Prague, Czech Republic

July / August 2007 - Generator arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK

May 2007 - Skolska 28 / Open studio (short term residency) - Prague, Czech Republic

2003 - Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, UK

curatorial / on-going projects

'in place' - project exploring aspects of field recording, sonic architecture, audible silence & the intuitive compositional arc in performance - 2008 - on going

seeds & bridges – arts event series for Hull & East Yorkshire 2006 - on going

Founder / composer – ime (intuitive music ensemble) 2000 – on going

New Work Yorkshire – member of the advisory group 2006 – ongoing

Co-ordinator, promoter for visit to Hull by contemporary Chinese artists – Hull 2005

Shell / Huff – series of exchange concerts between Hull & Sheffield based improvisers. 2006

ime / lima (leeds improvised music association) – series of exchange concerts between Hull & Leeds based improvisers 2005/2006

lecturer / teaching positions

regular tutor - wildeye field sound recording courses (alongside Chris Watson), Norfolk 2009 - 2010 - 2011

presentation - Goldsmiths, London 2011

3 day field recording workshop - Mullae art space, Seoul, Korea 2011

Guest lecturer - Newcastle University 2009

Guest lecturer - Zlin university - 2008

Guest Lecturer – Leeds School of Contemporary art & Design - 2008

Guest lecturer – Hull school of art and design – 2008

Lecturer in intuitive composition – independent art school 2004

Guest lecturer – Hull school of art – 2003

published recordings / writings

'tierce - caisson' (another timbre)

'four objects' (engraved glass)

'between gestures' (engraved glass / compost & height)

'instamatic # 8 - portugal' (engraved glass)

'sonata for clarinet and nodar' (engraved glass / binaural)

'dawn chorus - north & south banks' (engraved glass)

'instamatic # 6 - prague' (engraved glass)

'bath oil salt glass' exclusive track on the 'Klingt' double cd (mikroton)

'building 14, Zlin' exclusive track on the Framework 250 double cd (framework)

'the bright work - hydrophone recordings' (engraved glass)

'Pollau' - mp3 / pdf download + limited cdr release (blog & engraved glass)

'four appraoches to quietude' - mp3 download (blog)

'as (urfaces)' - to accompany residency & exhibition at Hull School of Art & design (engraved glass)

'pelure # 6' (compost & height split series)

'pelure # 9 - gathered wire' - free download / stream (for The Wire magazine website)

'tierce' (with Daniel Jones & Ivan Palacky) (. point engraved editions)

'....audible silence' edition (engraved glass)

'the view from the studio window' (engraved glass)

'instamatic series # 3 & 4 - Ghent bird market & Ghent beguinage' (engraved glass)

'instamatic series # 2 - Vienna' (engraved glass)

'instamatic series # 1 - Bridlington harbour & Thornwick bay' (engraved glass)

'pocklington canal head / wansford canal and watton beck' - audio cd (engraved glass)

‘field recordings volume 21’ – audio cd (engraved glass)

‘generator pieces 2727807’ – audio cd (generator projects / engraved glass)

'church door & window' - track on ‘Autumn Leaves’ download release to accompany book on sound art by Angus Carlisle (gruenrekorder)

'boat ropes & lake hollow pole' - track on ‘Rhythm’ – audio cd (cherry music Japan / gruenrekorder Germany)

'recorded clear input improvisation 202 (.24)' (1995) - mp3 download (compost & height)

'extract from Spike Island performance' - mp3 release (compost & height)

'zither & rain' - track on the 'rain is pretty music' mp3 release (rain music)

‘two events’ – audio cd (engraved glass)

Text piece ‘silence’ for ‘Then the silence increased’ exhibition catalogue – Manchester, University of Salford – May 2007

‘Global ear – Hull’ – article in ‘The Wire’ magazine + numerous reviews for same publication & on label websites 2005/2006 – ongoing.

2 hour radio program on the film music of Toru Takemitsu – Resonance FM 2006

Field recordings Volume 20 - East Yorkshire & Germany 2006 – audio cd (engraved glass)

‘a bastards tale’ – soundtrack for radio play 2004

‘piece for guitar, zither & microphone’ – radio broadcast (resonance fm & artradio, Berlin) 2004

‘temperature’ – soundtrack for film by Aurelie Klien 2003/2004

‘Hull on earth (Jez Riley)’ – radio documentary on resonance fm radio 2003

‘piano / ice’ (piano & ime) – broadcast on artradio, USA 2003

full list of recordings published:

‘field recordings volume 21’ – engraved glass 2007
‘generator pieces 2727807’ – engraved glass / generator projects 2007
Various artists – ‘Rhythm’ – guenrekorder / cherry music –2007
Various artists – ‘Autumn leaves’ (download release) – gruenrekorder 2007
Various artists – ‘Rain is pretty music’ (download release) – rain music 2007
‘two events’ – engraved glass 2007
‘church flower stand # 2’ – engraved glass 2007
‘photo film compilation’ – engraved glass 2006
‘seeds & bridges live performance’ (with Lee Patterson) – engraved glass 2006
‘Field recordings vol. 20’ – engraved glass 2006
‘book series one’ – engraved glass 2005
‘book series two’ – engraved glass 2005
‘field recordings vol. 19’ – engraved glass 2004
‘maybe everything you hope….’ – engraved glass 2004
Various artists – ‘ime compilation’ – engraved glass 2004
‘clear inputs vol. 2’ – engraved glass 2003
‘field recordings vol. 18’ – engraved glass 2002
‘clear inputs vol. 1’ – engraved glass 2001
‘with a coney’ – engraved glass 2000
‘brzeska than capra’ – engraved glass 1999
‘houses - field recordings vol. 17’ – self released 1999
‘in fields - field recordings vol. 16’ – self released 1999
‘intuitive compositions vol. 2’ - self released 1999
‘fence recordings - field recordings vol. 15’ – self released 1998
‘waters - field recordings vol. 14’ – self released 1997
‘surfaces - field recordings vol. 13’ – self released 1997
‘assorted - field recordings vol. 12’ – self released 1996
‘churches - field recordings vol. 11’ – self released 1996
‘windows - field recordings vol. 10’ self released 1995
‘fences & waters - field recordings vol. 9’ – self released 1993
‘field recordings vol. 8’ – self released 1991
‘field recordings vol. 7’ – self released 1990
‘intuitive compositions vol. 1’ - self released 1990
‘field recordings vol. 6’ – self released 1989
‘field recordings vol. 5’ – self released 1987
‘live performances’ - self released 1986
‘field recordings vol. 4’ – self released 1986
‘field recordings vol. 3’ – self released 1985
‘Abintra works’ - self released 1984
‘field recordings vol. 2’ self released 1983
‘gardens - field recordings vol. 1’ – self released 1982
‘tape pieces’ - self released 1982
‘doppel trio’ - self released 1981
‘simple 2’ - self released 1980
‘simple 1’ - self released 1979
‘feedback works’ - self released 1979

exhibitions

June 2011 - 'four mullae resonances', Mullae art space, Seoul, Korea

february 2011 - 'score for paiva river', paiva region (various galleries), portugal

July 2nd 2010 onwards: 'four approaches to quietude' exhibited, Folkstone

2010 - 'as (urfaces)' - audio / photographic exhibition, Hull School Of Art & Design, Hull

April 2009 - 'in place' - audio / photographic exhibition, ArtLink, Hull

September 2007 - ‘Hammonds’ - photographic exhibition, Hull

April - November 2007 - ‘east riding’ (audio/ visual) – 4 part work, various venues, Hull

July 2007 - ‘mouth of the humber’ (audio / visual) - Humber mouth festival, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

May 2007 - ‘Then the silence increased’ group exhibition - University of Salford, Manchester

December 2006 - 'Auditory' group exhibition – Holy Trinity, Leeds

2006 - ‘Tristesse 22102006 1 & 2’ – New Work Yorkshire perambulator, South Square gallery, Bradford

2006 - performance - resound exhibition, Mid-Pennine gallery, Burnley

2004 - ‘quartet avj2004-2’ – EICH gallery, Hull

2004 - ‘duet – images of sky’ - Platform 2 exhibition, Hull

2004 - ‘tags (tufts of art)’ – ‘Stuft’ group show, Red Gallery, Hull

instruments / sources

I play / make use of....

. field recordings
. piano
. zithers - english box zithers, autoharps, kantele & Guzheng
. dulcitone (tuning fork piano)
. organ
. guitar (acoustic / electric)
. cello
. clear-input methods
. inside-methods
. contact microphones
. hydrophones
. coil pick-up's
. objects (pebbles, shells, paper, salt, polenta, glass lenses, plants, grasses)
. clarinet
. gen sx1000
. xylophones
. melodica
. alto recorder
. bells
. pitch pipes

concerts

July 2011 - below is a list of main performances from the early 2000's until 2010. I haven't updated this section later in 2010 - the reason ? well, simply one of time....

25th September - solo @ the old vicarage, Bradford

August 13th - solo @ Moor music festival, Skipton

18th March - performance with Hankil Ryu / Daniel Jones / Patrick Farmer / Paul Khimasia Morgan, Coachwerks, Brighton

14th March - performance with Hankil Ryu, seeds & bridges, RED gallery, Hull

5th February - performance with Rowan ForestierWalker, Cella venue, Brighton

2009:

12th December - photographic score performed by Phillip Thomas (piano), Ferens art gallery, Hull

7th November - performance (inc photographic scores) with Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes, Rachel Dean & Shayla Reynolds, Holy Trinity, Hull

1st October - performance, Arnolfini gallery, Bristol

Sept 27th - sound and music expo, Leeds

Sept 26th - freesonic, Bloc gallery, Sheffield

July 18th - Pollau church, Austria

June 29th - q-02, Brussels

June 18th - Victoria hotel, Leeds

June 13th - Seven arts, Leeds

June 10th - r.o.d., CalArts, Valencia, California, USA

May 22nd 2009 - Goiya, Riga, Latvia

May 21st 2009 - Riga radio, Latvia

May 18th 2009 - y gallery, Tartu, Estonia

March 31st 2009 - Adelphi, Hull

March 28th 2009 - Street Level gallery, Glasgow

March 18th 2009 - East street studios (installation & performance) - with Stuart Bannister

February 15th 2009 - Cube cinema, Bristol - duet with Patrick Farmer

February 8th 2009 - Cafe Oto, London

January 29th 2009 - Newcastle University

November 21st 2008 - Zlin university, Czech Republic

November 8th 2008 - Canton uniting church, Cardiff - duet with Heleen Van Haegneborgh

November 7th 2008 - Sussex Uni - duet with Heleen Van Haegenborgh

November 6th 2008 - Cafe Oto, London - quartet with Heleen Van Haegenborgh, Patrick Farmer & Matt Davis

November 4th 2008 - Ferens Art Gallery, Hull - duet with Heleen Van Haegenborgh

November 3rd 2008 - Peel hall, Slaford - duet with Heleen Van Haegenborgh

October 14th 2008 - Logos foundation, Ghent - solo field recordings + Pauline Oliveros piece (in quartet)

September 12th 2008 - Seeds & bridges, Hull - trio's with Angharad Davies & Catherine Kontz (works by Wolff, Oliveros + intuitive composition for trio)

September 4th 2008 - Artlink Gallery, Hull

July 19th 2008 - Bloc gallery, Sheffield

July 9th 2008 - Port Mahon, Oxford

June 19th 2008 - Skolska 28, Prague

June 14th 2008 - duo with Ivan Palacky - Brno, Czech Republic

May 28th 2008 (trio with Patrick Farmer & Dom Lash) - LMC festival, London

January 2008 - Spike Island gallery, Bristol

December 2007 - duo with Daniel Jones (+ Max Eastley, Evan Parker, Mark Wastell and Graham Halliwell) - Chisenhale dance space, London – Dec 2007

December 2007 - 'audible architecture # 6’ - Bloc assembly, Sheffield

November 2007 - solo & with Taku Unami, Noid, Klaus Fillip & Tim Blechmann – Amann studio, Vienna

October 2007 - duo with Ivan Palacky - No-Fi, Newcastle

October 2007 - trio with Daniel Jones & Ivan Palacky - seeds and bridges, Hull

April - November 2007 - ‘east riding’ (4 part audio / visual work) - various venues in Hull

July 2007 - ‘mouth of the humber’ (audio / visual performance) - Humber mouth festival, Hull

July 2007 - Duo for field recordings & strings (with Rhodri Davies) – St Mary's Church, Hull

April 2007 - solo & duet with Daniel Jones (+ Toshimaru Nakamura & Billy Roisz) - Hull Time Based Arts, Hull + 'The Art Space', Nottingham

May 2007 - Skolska 28, Prague

May 2007 - Amann studios, Vienna

May 2007 - solo + collaboration with Ivan Palacky - Sklenena Louka, Brno

May 2007 - Rhiz, Vienna

May 2007 - Quitch gallery, Linz

March 2007 - leeds (private house)

March 2007 - trio with musicforone & Charlie Collins - Red Deer, Sheffield

March 2007 - duo with musicforone - Lamp, Hull

February / March 2007 - duo with Lee Patterson + trio wth Angharad Davies - Nottingham (Knee Knees), London (Omega works, Ray's Jazz / Foyles), Brighton (Westhill hall), Manchester (Salford Mill).

February 2007 - with Okkyung Lee, Matt Bourne, 7 Hertz & Will Guthrie - Leeds, Hull, Nottingham.

December 2006 - Holy Trinity, Leeds

November 2006 – Kinetica gallery, London

further 2006 concerts:

‘Tristesse 22102006 1 & 2’ – New Work Yorkshire perambulator,South Square gallery, Bradford

Re-soundtrack performance - digital Scarborough festival, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough

UK tour (with Pamelia Kurstin) – venues inc. e:vent gallery London, Generator arts Dundee, Nottingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Brighton, Bristol

Hommage to Ozu 1 (film & live performance) - Slack video, Hull

Solo & trio performance with Lee Patterson & Ben Gwilliam - resound exhibition, Mid-Pennine gallery, Burnley

Two presentations / performances @ Sonic Arts Group events – Leeds Uni, Leeds

Two performances for Hull Art Lab’s rolling performance series – Hull Art Lab, Hull

selection of earlier concerts:

‘two-teburi-koe’ (audio / visual) – ‘humbermouth’ festival, Hull

‘dliamansctlndpls’ – ‘imetexture 2', Hull

‘quartet avj2004-1’ – NewWorkYorkshire, Bretton Hall, Wakefield

‘quartet avj2004-2’ – EICH gallery, Hull

‘duet – images of sky’ (audio / visual) - Platform 2 exhibition, Hull

‘for guitar, zither & microphone’ – performance & radio broadcast (resonance fm & artradio, Berlin)

‘goodbyes’ - Anlaby road school of fine art, Hull

‘limitedspace’ – limited space performance – Tokyo

‘piano / ice’ – HTBA live art weekend, Hull

‘september start’ & ‘september end’ – Hull school of Art

‘brzeska quartet’ – HTBA, Hull – 2003

‘k-foundation – burning a million’ (live soundtrack) - Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

‘blue book / sun-wed’ – humbermouth festival, Hull

compositions

photographic scores: a pdf publication featuring a number of my photographic scores is available to view online or download by clicking here

below is a short list of compositions completed from 1979 - 2007

Pollau - for field recordings

four approaches to quietude, bruxelles - for field recordings

Thornwick Bay # 2 - for field recordings / hydrophone recordings

Czech waters - for hydrophone recordings

Estonian lakes - for hydrophone recordings

Estonian rivers - for field recordings / hydrophone recordings

as (urfaces) - 6 pieces for field recordings / surface vibrations

pelure # 9 - gathered wire - for field recordings / internal electronic signals

pelure # 6 - for field recordings / surface vibrations

....audible silence - enter (Kettle's yard, Cambridge) - for field recordings / surface vibrations (2009)

....audible silence - a next moment (JdP, Oxford) - for field recordings / surface vibrations (2009)

....audible silence - towards evening (Czech republic) - for field recordings / sonic architecture (2009)

The view from the studio window - for field recordings (2008)

instamatic # 4 - Ghent (beguinage) - for field recordings (2008)

instamatic # 3 - Ghent (bird market) - for field recordings (2008)

instamatic # 2 - Vienna - for field recordings (2008)

instamatic # 1 - Bridlington harbour & Thornwick Bay - for field recordings (2008)

Jez riley French / Heleen Van Haegenborgh - 'in place series # 1 - 5' (2008) - intuitive composition for piano, field recordings, zithers & objects

intuitive composition for trio (2008) - with Angharad Davies & Catherine Kontz

pocklington canal (2008) - for field recordings / hydrophones

Wansford canal and watton beck (2008) - for field recordings / hydrophones

'audible architecture # 7 - Prague' (2008) - for field recordings

'Generator pieces - onsite # 1' (2007) - for field recordings

'Generator pieces - onsite # 2 (2007) - for field recordings

'Generator pieces - offsite' (2007) - for field recordings

'east riding parts 1 - 4' (2007) - for field recordings

'mouth of the humber' (2007) - for field recordings

'audible architecture # 6 - Sheffield' - for field recordings, zither & objects

'two events - east yorkshire' (2007) - for clear inputs, inside methods, zither & field recordings

'two events - west yorkshire' (2006) - for church flower stand, piano & field recordings

'church flower stand # 2' (2006) - for church flower stand

'Lake Konstanz' (2005) - for field recordings

'book series # 1 - 4' (2005) - for clear inputs

'64 short pieces - sudek' (2004) - for guitar

'temperature' soundtrack (2003) - for guitar & field recordings

'piano / ice' (2003) - for piano & ensemble

'intuitive compositions # 5 - 8' (1991 - 1997) - for various solo instruments

'intuitive compositions # 1 - 4' (1987 - 1990) - for various solo instruments

'tape pieces # 1 - 6' (1980-1982) - for tape

'doppel trio' (1981) - for guitar & tape

'feedback works' (1979) - for guitar

biography

Jez riley French (b. 1965)

composer | musician | artist | listener

born & lives in East Yorkshire, UK.

Using intuitive composition, field recording, improvisation and photography, Jez riley French has been exploring his enjoyment of detail, simplicity and his emotive response to places and situations for the past 3 decades.

Alongside solo performances and exhibitions he collaborates with other artists, runs the ‘in place’ project on field recording – a subject on which he also lectures, organizes the ‘seeds & bridges’ event series and runs the ‘engraved glass’ label.

In recent years Jez has been working extensively on recordings of surfaces and architectural spaces, some results of which make up the ‘....audible silence’ project and has also been developing the concept of photographic scores.

His work has been performed, exhibited & published widely, including in France, Austria, Japan, Korea, the Czech Republic, UK, Belgium etc.


‘I am fascinated and passionate about the infinite detail and expanding vistas of life around us, its sights and sounds, often overlooked or hidden. My creative output focuses on this never ending, joyous exploration via intuitive composition, conventional & extended field recording techniques, photography & photographic scores. The music / sound I create has evolved from improvisation to what I prefer to term 'intuitive composition' and has increasingly involved elements such as a love of audible silence & stillness & the empathy of compositional arcs. These evolved from my need to always remain open to my emotive, intuitive response to situations & environments’ - JrF