Deborah Humm

Music for 18 Musicians

Back in 1965 Alvin Lucier performed ‘Music for Solo Performer’ he sat in a chair, was connected to physicist Edmond Dewan’s brain wave equipment producing Amplified brain waves. Have a listen
http://youtu.be/bIPU2ynqy2Y

At the Wonder Street Fair we saw Muscle Controlled Music stand, interesting but very slow. I needed a personal demonstration!

Walk around DEF*GABC*D

On a walk about while DEF*GABC*D is playing in the situation I am trying. The corridor between the studios. The sound piece travels and permeates throughout the whole building subtlety. Getting into the psyche.  Having no beginning, no middle or end, exactly when the piece is encountered is irrelevant and now it is heard wherever you are the time spent with the piece is also immaterial-you do not enter a room listen and leave, the sound follows you around, you cannot escape…

Deborah Humm
www.deborahhumm.co.uk

My work conveys the miscommunication of brain and body; mind and functionality; thought and action. Articulating rogue communications, misinterpretations, lost and broken signals resulting in random, bizarre and contradictory sensations; loss of control; frustration and annoyance.

Impersonating the practical, biological functionality of the nerves. Heightening our awareness of their electrical pulses doing the everyday mundane, taken for granted action of breathing, blinking, seeing, walking, picking up and holding a pen to write or draw the spark of a thought…

UCA Canterbury BA (hons) Degree Show June 3rd -5th 2013
New Dover Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 3AN
Tel: +44 (0)1227 817302
Directions by road
From London, take the M2 towards Dover, then the A2 at Faversham (take the exit at Junction 7).
Exit the A2 at the A2050 to Canterbury. At the outskirts of the city, take a right at St Peter’s Roundabout and follow the A290/A28 Ring Road. Turn right at the third roundabout by the cinema (signposted A2050 to Sandwich) into New Dover Road.
Immediately after the traffic lights turn left into the University drive – look for the signs to Canterbury College and to UCA. Follow the drive round to the right and UCA is on your left.

DEF*GABC*D

Articulating the internal miscommunication between brain and body.

Composed using chance throughout, from start to finish, and in every dimension of the music; sounds, silences, rhythms, dynamics, densities, tempi.  Drawing upon the virtuosity of pianist David Tudor, Cage allowed his compositional process to create a wide variety of musical events at time pile up in thick layers.

Music of Changes