TORONTO, CANADA Montreal composer and sound artist James O’Callaghan’s Bodies-Soundings has won first place in Musicworks’ 2014 Electronic Music Composition contest. “I’m very grateful for Bodies-Soundings to have this recognition!,” O’Callaghan says. “Composition is usually a very insular, introspective process for me, and so once a work is released into the wild it’s a pleasure to seeContinue reading “Meet Our 2014 Contest Winners”
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James O’Callaghan’s Bodies-Soundings
James O’Callaghan’s Bodies-Soundings, winner of Musicworks’ 2014 Electronic Music Composition contest, is a highly suspenseful acousmatic piece in which sounds are partially diffused through tactile transducers (specialized speakers that transmit sound through any object to which they’re attached) that are attached to an acoustic guitar and a toy piano. The two instruments are not playedContinue reading “James O’Callaghan’s Bodies-Soundings”