Immersive Modular Choirs
I play at this fantastic festival spearheaded by the wonderful Leander Reininghaus this weekend, it is on both Friday and Saturday night but I play on Friday only. Come along for a fresh look at live musical constructions.. 🙂
Need more info? Check www.tuesdayspost.com
“London’s Georgina Brett is part of a generation of solo artists who use layered loops to build trascendental, rotating textures from repetition. Hardware loopers and effects pedals remain the preferred tool here for Brett as for many such artists. But Brett’s work is worth a particular mention for its ghostly, ethereal quality and thoughtful, delicate compositions.
There is for me a continuum connecting to the Minimalists, of course – as a soloist, she’s doing some of the things that the Meredith Monk Ensemble did (minus the loopers), and there’s a feeling of the “discovered folk music” that Monk used in her work. Other moments have the quasi-Medieval sounds of Philip Glass — one track recalling the “Knee Plays,” other moments perhaps channeling Hildegard, in flourishes of modal monophony that underlie the writing. But this voice seems personal and intimate, centering on folk song round-style directness.
Watching her build up a track, even after many years of watching looping performances, is a pleasure, beginning fragile or even uncertain like an echo, but gently growing to a calmly rolling sea of sound.” Peter Kirk
Full article here. http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/07/hear-the-gorgeous-ethereal-vocal-music-of-georgina-brett-and-more-live-looping/
Delighted to have been featured here, really, so happy.
So much more music in the pipeline which i am dead excited about, do keep popping back… 🙂
or #SCOTD as it is shortened to… So excited… 🙂 I opened my account that morning to find hundreds more plays that usual on my music, so I knew something was up… Found out later on in the day that i was featured on the twitter and tumblr soundcloud blogs as artist of the day. So grateful for some unexpected exposure, had some super nice comments and met some new artists for possible collaboration. Hoooorrrayyyy 🙂 www.soundcloud.com/georginabrett
..at the Art of the Moment Festival. He explained that not only does the Ninja Jamm app come with tune packs but that we could make one there and then.
I had a go at some on the spot vocals (in a room full of technology wizards…!) which feature here on the video. 🙂 It was an interesting, enlightening and amusing few hours.
I put together the best bits of my performance in this empty swimming pool.
Thanks Michael Shepherd for the cool video, very much appreciated.
What a site! The best festival site, next to the beach, clean showers, lots of warm interior spaces, good food, great music and lovely people… What more could you want?
Here’s me singing a totally unrehearsed improvisation around the well known tragic love song “Black Orpheus”, it kind of goes wrong as I try to adjust the tempo on the second pedal.. wishing i had turned the output of the second pedal down at the time, so no bubbly noises… i thought it was nicely arty… perhaps it is?
I have been helping to make radio shows for Ov London Collective. Ov London is specifically focused on Improvisation. Here is the first radio show to be broadcast on K2K Radio K2K (Kilburn To Kensal) Radio a brand new internet radio based in Green Park.
It features:-
Track 1 – The Feral Choir with Phil Minton 24th January 2008 by
Phil Minton, Maggie Nichols, Sharon Gal, Moshi Honen, Frank Charlton, Carmel Morrisey, Illi Adato, Steve Moyes, Dave O’Connor (and others Please do get in touch if you were here and want to be listed!!)
Track 2 – Known Not Learnt and Known Unknowns by
David Cooper Orton
Track 3 – A Living Score. CWM Festival, Wales June 2012 by
Bethan Graham Dolman, Illi Adato, Mia McAllister, (and others Please do get in touch if you were here and want to be listed!!)
Track 4 – A Cave with Curious Twins by
Georgina Brett
Although a great deal of my music is pre-composed, I do enjoy an improvisation, either solo or in a group preferably.
Georgina Brett Nonsense A and Nonsense B are finished.
Buy Nonsense A and Nonsense B on iTunes
All can be downloaded from iTunes or Bandcamp, but you can buy the CD’s here if you like. All Cd’s are one of a kind and contain artwork by myself. They can all be signed and dedicated to you personally. (All CD purchases come with a surprise gift CD of some sort)
I have been focusing on vocal sound collages for a while now, and have called it ‘Non Sense’ for many reasons. The word “nonsense”, in terms of language, talks of no verbal sense, no meaning conveyed. Language needs context, structure and grammar in order to function. These albums are “non sense” from a language point of view. However, there is so much more to communication than language, and ‘hear/here’ I attempt to make pure emotional musical matrices which each have a particular flavour.
The album also endeavours to show the power of the voice as an instrument. The songs give the listener a ‘Vocal Bath’. You get the freedom to ‘use’ each individual track as concentration music, or for meditation or as a means to sleep. Think whatever you like, there is no narrative. However…. the development of the notes and chords and rhythm is pretty compelling, so follow in the musical journey and switch off your own words, it’s relaxing.
“Your mind is captured by [this sound healing] sound, there is so much to be busy with, your brain is thirsty for things, if you give food to the mind somehow it is quiet, like if you give a dog a bone. allowing the other dimensions of the mind such as self-awareness finally to have space and ‘let go’. ” Monika Soundgate in reference to Soundgate sound healing.
Non Sense A and B were made in the hope that they can afford a similar space for the listener.. a space of healing. The mind is often described to be like a restless and curious monkey (Taoism), it tries to find complication. Hopefully what you will find with this album, is gentle complication in sound, coupled with beauty and a general sense of reliability.