NYE PARRY

(( ATC ZERO ))

Taking as its starting point two recordings I made in London after the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which left all air traffic grounded for several days (a condition known as ATC Zero), the piece moves through an invented landscape of exterior and interior spaces (including that of the Portal itself) and explores the simultaneous feelings of openness and enclosure experienced in that time.

ATC Zero – stereo mix )) LISTEN

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Bio:

Nye Parry works across genres of music and sound art and has made work for numerous museums including the Science Museum, the National Maritime Museum, Heineken Experience and the British Museum. Many of his pieces are site-specific and deal in some way with evoking a sense of history, both in the choice of sound sources and their spatial composition. In particular, the multi-channel installation Boomtown (Oldham, 1998) spawned an interest in oral history which led to a number of collaborative projects with Cathy Lane, including the Memory Machine at the British Museum (2005), a co-edited edition of the journal Organised Sound on the theme of Sound, History and Memory, and a residency at Srishti College of Media in Bagalore. He is interested in the structural possibilities of spatial awareness and has developed navigable soundscapes using a variety of approaches including the use of locative media (GPS) in Scratch, a collaboration with BBC Radio Drama and members of the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University in 2008.
He has written concert works including a number featuring Balinese Gamelan alongside western instruments for the London Symphony Orchestra’s Community Gamelan as well as works for live musicians and electronics such as the site-specific musical game Ludus for 2 saxophone quartets, Dice and Colour Sensors (2009) for the Colourscape Festival. His work has been broadcast internationally including on BBC Radios 3 and 4, France Musique, CBC (Canada) and Hessischer Rundfunk Germany. As a performer he has played in many styles of music from classical piano to Balinese Gamelan to free improvisation, including appearances at the Spitz, Southbank Centre, MTV (Bjork unplugged).
He has also worked extensively with contemporary dance with pieces for Bedlam, Scottish Dance Theatre, Raphael Bonacela, Colin Poole and Charles Linehan among others. He was programme leader for the MA in Sonic Art at Middlesex between 2003 and 2011. He also lectures at The Guildhall School of Music, Tinity/Laban and Goldsmiths Colleges and has a research fellowship at CRiSAP, the Centre for Research in Sound Arts Practice at LCC, University of the Arts, London.