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Cory Champion - Untitled Improvisation
Time/Tone. Toi Pōneke, Wellington. January 2019.
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In 2019 Cory Champion was the third recipient of the Toi Pōneke / New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōki sound art residency, during which he developed Time/Tone — a performance/installation work for technologically-augmented drum kit.
Time/Tone is a modulation matrix. The software powering it uses live audio input from individual instruments within the drum set as control parameters for modulation synthesis. By using a combination of microphones and triggers, audio signal features (such as drum-strike velocity, or drum frequency resonance) are tracked, interpolated, and scaled to user specifications.
The Time/Tone sound-field combine digitally generated output of the modulation engine, in addition to both raw and modulated signals from the acoustic drum set. The augmenting layer of digitally generated audio is comprised of sine- and saw-wave oscillators in combination with the sounds of the drum kit itself. In this way, the project explores drum set augmentation not only at the input and from a performative angle, but also at the level of output, where acoustic and synthesized elements are merged into each other to form a sonic hybrid.
In More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction, Kodwo Eshun presents an afro-futurist, ethno-musical notion – the Futurhythmachine – characterised by “2 opposing tendencies, 2 synthetic drives: the Soulful and the Postsoul. But then all music is made of both tendencies running simultaneously at all levels”, making the Futurhythmachine an inherently paradoxical categorisation, bringing within it it’s own internal incongruity. As a conceptual framework for the modulation systems which comprise Time/Tone, the paradoxical impulse the heart of the Futurhythmachine is embraced: two systems (the acoustic and augmented) are collapsed into a single, seamless techno-musical entity – Time/Tone.
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Riki Pirihi, Cory Champion - Opening Performance (excerpt)
Time/Tone. Toi Pōneke, Wellington. January 2019.
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Time/Tone exhibition. Toi Pōneke, Wellington. January 2019.
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Opening Performance
Time/Tone - Audio Foundation, Auckland. March 2020.
https://actualbone.bandcamp.com/album/time-tone-audio-foundation-auckland
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James Paul, Riki Pirihi, Cory Champion - Opening Performance (excerpt)
Time/Tone. Toi Pōneke, Wellington. January 2019.
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AM MODE
Studio recordings of drumset and Max/MSP modulation systems implemented in Time/Tone.
https://actualbone.bandcamp.com/album/am-mode
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