Thanks to the miracle of SoundCloud, you can listen to some things that I’ve made, sometimes with the help of other people.
Solo
Ysbrydnos: Soundtrack to the Ysbrydnos installation at the Caerdroia, Gwydyr Forest, Llanrwst in October 2007
Banjo 2 (for Frank Proffitt): Piece created entirely from recordings of the fretless banjo. Dedicated to North Carolina folk legend Frank Proffitt.
Live at Rove: Live improvisation with uncooked rice in upturned speaker cones. Low frequencies in the region of 50Hz agitate the rice; an FX send loop in the mixing desk enables feedback to be harnessed. The whole piece is an attempt to control chaotic phenomena. Recorded by Rob Smith at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Many thanks to Rob and Matthew Lovett.
Bwyd Sonique
Bwyd Sonique: Karine Décorne (food) / Simon Proffitt (sound). Live recording of the multi-sensory sound art project where Karine creates mouth-watering food and Simon makes music from the sound of preparation and cooking. Audience members get to eat the food afterwards.
The Master Musicians of Dyffryn Moor
A group of teenagers from an unspecified LA neighbourhood standing around and chanting ‘You have been defeated and thoroughly humiliated’: A more traditionally rhythmic offering from The Master Musicians of Dyffryn Moor (Simon, Bambos, Gwydion, Owen, Richard & Sarah). Raw material improvised to tape, then edited, rearranged and compiled by Simon.
A Tedious Way of Saying That I Do Not Exist: Raw material improvised on a selection of household objects and implements by Simon, Bambos, Gwydion, Owen, Richard and Sarah. Recorded, chopped up, rearranged, produced and compiled by Simon.
Miscellaneous Fun Stuff
Hold On A Minute (edit): World première of Hold On A Minute, composed by me and performed by The Master Musicians of Prior Street. Participants are asked to reproduce a specific sound event once every minute for 10 minutes without the use of time-keeping devices – they must count out the time in their heads. They must also not be influenced by the other participants into speeding up or slowing down – the specific instruction given to each player is that ‘all other participants are wrong – you are the only player to be able to count correctly’. This is an edited version – the original runs to over 17 minutes because everybody apart from me lost track of how many minutes they’d counted and I had to tell them to stop.
Simon: prepared guitar
Hannah: paella dish
Hélène: hand saw
Owen: glass lampshade
Bambos: wooden log
Parts 2 & 3 of an improvisation with Louie and Taina back in 2005. Part 1 is best left unheard. I can’t remember who was responsible for what, but I can remember that despite it being badly recorded, and despite it not being our finest work, it was a lot of fun. Full names have been withheld in case either of the other two participants have moved on and are now embarrassed about the results. Rest assured they’re both really great, talented people and much better looking than me.