About this album
the performance that generated this recording was hosted by the web application zoom. This is an online collaboration.
The ensemble is called The Blank Canvas Octet.
The ensemble employs a music system called System 50:50 for improvisers. For more detail about System 50:50 for improvisers enter the following script into a google search box
`improvisers networks system 50:50`
The track `26th January 2022 19.35` details are.
The duration of the piece is 32 minutes.
The piece is made up of five parts.
Each part of the five assigned to an improvisers displays a different ratio of `freeplay to tacet` that they follow.
credits
released April 7, 2022
Album Credits
The Blank Canvas Octet features the following, more or less.
GARFIELD SOUTHALL, guitar, Chester
GEOFF BRIGHT, reeds, aerophone, Sheffield
GILL WHITELEY, strings, Sheffield : website
LYN HODNETT, voice, Wales & other
MARTIN HACKETT, Korg Ms, Oxford
PHIL MORTON, accidents and treatments, Liverpool
CHRIS PARFITT, Alto Saxophone, Bridgend, Wales
Played: System 50:50 for improvisers using the rotation format.
members not featured.
PAUL MEDLEY. clarinet, Oxford
ROBIN HARTWELL, misc
CLAYTON JACKSON, electronics and objects, Silverdale
IRENE IZQIERDO, voice
GUILLERMO TORRES, sound, Spain.
Venue: zoom online
Audio edited in audacity by Martin Hackett.
Cover art work by Gill Whiteley & Lyn Hodnet generated whilst listening to the Blank Canvas Octet sound file
The Blank Canvas Octet is a System 50:50 collaborative project for improvisers who meet weekly over the internet to play
free ensemble improvisations in music applying System 50:50 conditions. The web application `Zoom.us` is the current virtual host of choice. The term `octet` usually means 8 musicians but in this instance the ensemble numbers may vary from 4 up to 16....more
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