Paragon PET 05
PET 05
Paragon Ensemble
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The Paragon Ensemble has launched PET 05 - a new online interactive commissions project. Launched on 22 November 2005 in the CCA, the PET project is part of Paragon’s 25th Anniversary Season and aims to give audience members a chance to try their hand at creating electronic music online.
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Composers Nick Fells and J. Simon van der Walt, and software artists Retina Burn Graphics and Colin Law have created two online interactive commissions. These commissions allow the user to navigate around image-based platforms selecting sounds from a palette of different timbres created by the composers. Van der Walt’s piece codifies text patterns into sounds and is called 'Talking Glitch Machine'. Fells’ piece allows the user to select sounds and place them into ‘music machines’ which appear almost at random enabling you to have a more improvisational composition.
If you log on to www.paragon-ensemble.com and click on ‘PET’, you will find a choice of three Paragon online commissions: PET_00 (2004); PET_01 (2005); PET_02 (2005). Each commission allows you to create and store your own piece in Paragon’s online vault.
The Paragon Ensemble is a professional organisation dedicated to the development and performance of contemporary music. Paragon Ensemble was founded in 1980 by David Davies and is now led by its Creative Director, Ninian Perry and conducted by its Principal Conductor, Garry Walker. The company is based in Glasgow where it has been Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Glasgow since 2001.
Their work encompasses:
- international platform appearances,
- education and community projects,
- performance opportunities for new composers,
- a main season of performances throughout Scotland,
- development projects,
- collaborative work with artists from dance, drama, visual art, film, literature and digital media and
- broadcasts and recordings.
Paragon Ensemble Ltd is a charity registered in Scotland.
| For more information on the Paragon Ensemble and the PET 05 project, have a look at the Paragon Ensemble website. |
PET 05 is supported by the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council |