Collaborative Music Projects Call winners announced

by Caitlin Rowley

We are delighted to announce the winners of our Call for Collaborative Music Projects. Kathryn Williams and Ed Cooper will create a new piece using Soundbrenner devices, while Harry Matthews and Ben Jameson will push Vochlea’s Dubler 2 software to its limits for their new work. We are excited to see the work these very different duos will create over the next six months.

Ed Cooper and Kathryn Williams

Harry Matthews and Ben Jameson

Based in Northern England, flautist Kathryn Williams and composer Ed Cooper will write a new work using the Soundbrenner vibrating metronome. The piece will use the device and physical movement to explore the relationships between performance activities, bodies, and heart rates. 

Composer-pianist Harry Matthews and composer-guitarist Ben Jameson, a duo based in South West England, will create a new work using the audio-to-MIDI software Dubler 2 by Vochlea. By combining field recording and microtonal tuning, the duo will push the software beyond its conventional commercial uses.

We received many ambitious and innovative proposals to the call and would like to thank everyone who applied. Zubin Kanga, our Director and Principal Investigator, says, “We’re very excited to be commissioning these two duos, who stood out from a very competitive field with their ambitious projects that push the technologies into new and unexplored areas. This is the first of several calls that we are planning over the coming years, and with each focusing on a different type of industry partner technology.”

Both duos will work alongside their respective technological partners and the Cyborg Soloists team and we will follow their progress here and on our social media accounts. The new works will be premiered by the duos themselves in Winter 2022/23.

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