Dear friends and backers of the DIVE recording project. A long overdue update is in order. Much has been done over the last months. Most importantly, more than half of the recordings have been through a first draft of mastering. It’s been a real pleasure to be working with Michael White who has great ears, […]
Update on Music for DIVE: mastering, digital distribution, Nostrodamus and a turtle Read More »
‘Lament’ will almost certainly be the last track in the CD.
A very simple, and very elegant, plaintif melody sung (and composed) by Fides over the subdued remnants of ‘The Storm’.
The bed track for ‘Lament’ was built up using the same set of Poly Six improvisations as ‘The Storm’…
A Call to DIVE VII – Lament Read More »
‘Lighea’s Idyll’ is really a full on ambient work, summoning a brilliant sunlit sea, awash in the sounds of ripples and waves in a multiplicity of patterns, and the emergence – gently bobbing up from the deeps – of the mermaid as her natural self, in her oceanic element…
A Call to DIVE V – Lighea’s Idyll Read More »
The exceedingly talented photographer & filmmaker Jeremy Mimnagh created a very cool video for the project, and you can pre-order downloads, CDs, a poster of the cover art, and you can even order me. If you’re really special (I know, you’re all really special!) you can book a visitation from the mermaid herself!
A Call to DIVE IV – Crowdfunder Launch! Read More »
I give you ‘PaulArio’. This is a piece which some of you may genuinely wonder if it actually qualifies as music, and some of you will think maybe Brian Eno met Kayhan Kalhor… Persian Ambient Psychedelia?
How can I explain?
Two searching souls meet one another, and through a strange course of recognition and discovery, become inextricably bound to a divine being, and a mutual pathway of devastation and awakening.
A Call to DIVE III – PaulArio Read More »
Greetings encore, diverse divers and lovers of dives.
It was a thrill to send the last missive off, and it’s been an even greater thrill to have so many amazingly cool responses from friends far and near, and new and old. Honoured indeed to have such great folks having a listen!
But the story’s just begun!
In this email I’ll present three more works:
The Pastry Shop, Lighea’s Lovers, and Bar Hades
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An Aria sung over a bed track of waves, gulls, Crystal Baschet, and a buoy bell run through a Line 6 delay modeler. Mussolini’s ‘Vincere’ speech (in which he declared war on the Allies) slowed down
and stretched out so that it screams and moans. Jack boots and Leni Riefenstahl samples. Dulcimers, pan delay and Array Mbiras.
An ambient composition for microtonal instrument creator Harry Partch’s ‘Cloud Chamber Bowls’. Layers and layers of fat classic analog synth (PolySix) layered in with howling wolves as a bed track for an astonishing vocal storm by the truly and terribly astonishing voice of our muse and main protaganist, mermaid and siren, Fides Krucker.
A Call to DIVE I – The Prelude & The Pearls Read More »
Lighea’s Lovers is a song from the Sonic Theatre work ‘DIVE’.
The lyrics are by Richard Sanger, and the ‘Sailors Chorus’ is an adaptation by Nik from Richard’s original text.
The scene is a seedy bar, and the main character is the mermaid in the guise of a waitress who, while apparently reciting the tabs of patrons, is in fact reciting the names of her former lovers (famous sea explorers).
This music was recorded at the ArrayMusic studio in Toronto, Oct, 2013.
The Sailor’s Chorus was recorded in Davy Jones’ Locker, Dec, 2013.
Vocals – Fides Krucker
Percussion & Vibraphone – Rick Sacks
Acoustic Bass – Rob Clutton
Sailor’s Chorus: Stephen Goring, Anthony Smith, Neil Gardiner, Alex Follis, Nik Beeson
Studio Engineering – Rick Sacks
Mix Production – Nik Beeson
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Song from Sonic Theatre/Opera ‘DIVE’ Composition – Nik Beeson Libretto – Richard Sanger Voice – Fides Krucker Bass – Rob Clutton Piano – Neil Gardiner Vibes – Rick Sacks Recorded at Array Studio
Fides Krucker, Richard Sanger and I have been working on this for about the last two years. This is a ‘workshop’ of the sonic elements of a ‘sonic theatre’ performance with text by Canadian playwright/poet Richard Sanger. Alex Fallis and Heidi Strauss are collaborating with direction, and Simon Rossiter is in for lighting. We workshopped the text elements last year at CanStage.
‘DIVE’ – an immersive voice salon-sound installation Read More »