Peterloo in Sound 

‘Sound as Being’ organise electroacoustic music concerts held within unique architectural spaces in the North West of England.

Sound as Being

<SPAN ID="docs-internal-guid-cdd2e0ca-7fff-4348-e9d1-9cfd9db751eb" STYLE="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sound as Being present ‘Peterloo in Sound’ a 5.1 sound composition by <A STYLE="font-family: -webkit-standard; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://markpilkington.org.uk/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark Pilkington </A><SPAN STYLE="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">inspired by a historical event that came to be known as 'The Peterloo Massacre', that happened in Manchester, England on the 16th August, 1819. The sound material consists of location recordings captured from student protests held in Manchester 2010 and the rural setting of Maccelesfield Forest, Cheshire. Historical transcriptions and archive sound recordings were gathered with the help of Prof. Robert Poole of the University of Central Lancashire, The <A STYLE="font-family: -webkit-standard; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-decoration: none;" HREF="https://phm.org.uk/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peoples History Museum</A><SPAN STYLE="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Manchester, The North West Sound Archive and the British Library. The text transcriptions provided a narrative framework to structure the electroacousitc sounds. The soundscape recordings were sonically transformed using a computer and spatially arranged within a 5.1 loud speaker array. The spatial aspect of the composition considers the listeners position, reception and inclusion. Realised at <A STYLE="font-family: -webkit-standard; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-decoration: none;" HREF="https://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOVARS Research Centre</A><SPAN STYLE="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the University of Manchester.

The Reading Room, Manchester Central Library

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