CAT PRINT

CAT PRINT

A player-piano replays a recording of a cat that walked across the keys 30 years ago. The piece illuminates the death and revivification inherent in all mechanical recording. As the keys visibly repeat the act of being depressed, they reveal the imprint of the live body and follow the negative space of the creature. As with the piano rolls that recoded Rachmaninov playing his own music in 1919, the observer is attending a kind of séance and the random, spontaneous, and unrepeatable elements are extrapolated back to the player and composer as a kind of signature of presence and authenticity.  In Cat Print, the same is true although it is composed (almost) entirely accidentally.

CAT PRINT was shown in the group sound-art show at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, not necessarily in the right order Feb – April 2023

VIDEO CAT PRINT

Lost Chord

LOST CHORD

Lost Chord is a social musical work currently being researched. Sets of organ pipes are carried through the landscape, each pipe resonating with its own voice. It is a relational work at both a sonic and human level with the drift of travel, the constraints of landscape, the labour of the task and the collective process of the group all determining the nature of an unrepeatable band of sound. The work exploits the psychoacoustic effect of the drone on the carrier and the observer alike and inevitably, while taking place in the secular world, has magical and religious resonances.

 Lost Chord is supported by Arts Council England

VIDEO LOST CHORD STUDIO

In Golden Brogues

In golden brogues

In Golden Brogues (2007) was written for the website Do The Green Thing as walking music. Over 9 minutes if follows a comfortable 100 beats-per-minute yet shifts pace and intenstiy

 

VIDEO IN GOLDEN BROGUES

In Golden Brogues

by Graeme Miller

BRIGHSTONE 428

BRIGHSTONE 428

Made by Graeme Miller for the BBC Radio 3 series Between the Ears this 30 minute radio essay examines the passing lore and language of the landline, the mythical geogrpahy and materiality of the network and the phone’s entry into domestic culture and art in the 20th century.

It was first broadcast in April 2017 and is a Cast Iron Radio production

Hear on BBC iPLayer

 

Moth Theatre

Moth Theatre

 

Moth Theatreis a small-scale freestanding plywood theatre fitted with a video feedback system and ultra-violet lighting. Standing in a pool of its own radiance, it is theatre for moths by moths.

Insects are drawn to the miniature cinema where their image is filmed and fed back to the same screen, generating pattern and unwitting choreography. Moth Theatre plays with the nature of spectacle across the species divide. Drawn by the same light and image as the insects, the human observer is able to eavesdrop on this evolving and autonomous performance.

Moth Theatre was commissioned for the Latitude Festival 2010 in Suffolk, UK and was the first winner of the Latitude Contemporary Art Award. It was show also at Serralves em Festa, Porto.

VIDEO MOTH THEATRE LATITUDE 2011