Collateral Parallels
By Music Technology Graduating Students 2010
Collateral Parallels is a compilation of student works by Mark Bradstreet, Ellie Cumming, Mikaela Davies, Jarryd Bird and Jake Steele. These tracks were composed during 2010 while studying the Bachelor of Music: Music Technology course at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Each artist contributes two tracks, which displays the range of different styles and electronic musical studies that the students have engaged in.
Mark Bradstreet’s work Raw, is an electronic tribal orientated piece, based on a contemporary dance collaboration. Run was composed with electro-acoustic sounds, including electric guitar and live drum samples, generating an immersive electronic soundscape.
Ellie Cumming’s works consist of a mixture of cultures, exploited using a saxophone quartet.
Mikaela Davies’ pieces “In The Darkness We Shall Fall” and “Chordal Sinewaves” utilise the emotions that we go through in life circumstances. They are a blend of using Max/MSP processing and using live instrumentation to harp on emotions such as; hope, despair, sadness, depression and manic states.
Jarryd Theodore Bird has created two pieces based around the manipulation of guitar tracks through time. The works are intended to create a melancholic and gloomy affect.
Jake Steele has composed a ‘hip hop symphony’ utilizing live instruments that merge the classical style with modern grooves of hip hop. These tracks are remixes of elements from the symphony.
These works are short interpretations of each students graduating recitals .
Track Listing
Mark Bradstreet.
1. Raw (4:59) Raw
2. Run (5:24) Run
Ellie Cumming.
3. Desert Lands (2:36) Desert
4. New York City (2:24) NewYork
Mikaela Davies.
5. In The Darkness, We Shall Fall (9:18) Darkness
6. Chordal Sinewaves (4:16) Sinewaves
Jarryd Bird.
7. In the Autumn (Exiled) (6:00) Autumn
8. Gaussian Ghost (7:57) Ghost
Jake Steele.
9. Journey (reinterp/remix) (4:03) Journey
10. Rampage (reinterp/remix) (5:23) Rampage
