EA is a photo-electro-acoustic project instigated by Gill Arno (b, Italy), Richard Garet (b, Uruguay), André Gonçalves (b, Portugal), Andy Graydon (b, Hawaii, USA), Ben Owen (b, USA), and Gil Sanson (b, Venezuela). While the interests and approaches of each participant vary widely, everyone generally works within the idiom of computer-processed natural and instrumental sounds, and with the interrelation of the visual environment with the aural environment through slide, film, and video projections. The group’s involvement is open and evolving, always incorporating new forms and dividing into smaller focused specialties. EA works with improvisations as well as with rules-based scores written by individual participants. Performances alternate between large group improvisations and practiced scores drawn from the group’s repertoire, often played by smaller units of the group. In keeping with this evolving paradigm, the acronym EA does not refer to any fixed phrase.
Participants
The list of contributors to the EA collective keeps growing since its beginning in Spring 2005. Some of them have been participating quite regularly, some for a period of time, others just for one session. Gill Arno/mpld, Chika, Richard Garet, André Gonçalves, Andy Graydon, Adam Kendall, Siew-wai Kok, Zach Layton, Derek Morton, Brendan Murray, Ben Owen, Reto Pulfner, Radio_Ruido, Gil Sanson, Sawako, sc.all, Jeremy Slater.
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video EA - EA’s quick time movie excerpt - (3:28”) + (10 MB) ¬ sound by EA - video by André Gonçalves
video EA @ NISUS Rise Over Run For Four Players - (image: Andy Graydon) - (sound: Gill Arno + Richard Garet + Ben Owen + Gil Sanson) - EA live at NISUS Galeria Galou, NYC, June 30, 2005
video EA @ NISUS IMPROVISATION 1 - (image: Gill Arno + Andy Graydon) - (sound: Ben Owen + Gil Sanson) - EA live at NISUS Galeria Galou, NYC, June 30, 2005
video EA @ NISUS IMPROVISATION 2 - (image: Gill Arno) - (sound: Richard Garet + Andy Graydon) - EA live at NISUS Galeria Galou, NYC, June 30, 2005
sound EArework-1097 (24:21”) + (36.7 MB) -
This is Gill Arno’s rework of a live session at Ruben Noise studio, dated June 02, 2005.
Release
balancing act with controled dynamics @ winds measure recordings
edition: 100 cdr
2 panel letterpress sleeve and one score card insert.
score written by gil sanson.
time keeping application made with Processing by andré gonçalves.
recorded at the fotòfono, 2005 05 19.
mastered by andy graydon
designed and printed by ben owen and gill arno.