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Field Divisions

8/1/2021

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Field Divisions 1, Fuji XT-3, 23mm f1.4
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Field Divisions 2, Fuji XT-3, 23mm f1.4
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The Fundamentals of Architecture

14/11/2020

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The Fundamentals of Architecture (2020), photo zine, limited edition 50, A5 landscape, 130 gsm silk paper, 20 pages, stapled.

£3.00 + postage (contact me to purchase) 

​My first photozine explores the fundamentals of architectural forms through a series of images taken in Lefkimi, Corfu in 2019.
The Fundamentals of Architecture (2020), photo zine, limited edition 50, A5 landscape, 130 gsm silk paper, 20 pages, stapled.
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exchanges welcome
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drookitarlùp

2/11/2020

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Spazio di Hausdorff
presents
drookitarlùp
giancarlo toniutti / james wyness

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(12 page booklet and folded score)
(T2d20)
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1. drookitarlupia incauta    [23'21"] adapted by Giancarlo Toniutti
2. drookitarlupia undique temere interiecta    [23'00"] adapted by James Wyness
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drookitarlùp
composition for 42 players with non-standard string,
wind, friction and percussion instruments
performed by
The Kafkian Cladistic Claque
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retail price:-
£13,00 per cd (contact me)
14 euros per cd (contact giancarlo)

+ postage
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Early 2020.
Giancarlo Toniutti and James Wyness met several times in various European places to compose
drookitarlùp, a 23' piece for 42 players
with mostly folk, extraeuropean, or self-built and unusual wind, string, friction and percussion acoustic instruments.

An orchestra of specialised players,
The Kafkian Cladistique Claque,
gathered with the authors at Andrej Bagar Theatre in Nitra, Slovakia.
They rehearsed time and again,
then both composers conducted one performance each with their specific interpretation of the original score.
Each session was recorded and finally brought home to be mixed by the authors.

​Ideas around musique brut
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'Adaptation is the node of research'
(Hine Kawharu Galbraith)​

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the quiet project

15/10/2020

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the quiet project is the ongoing development of several years research into instrument design and building, from hand-made bowed psalteries to tiny percussion ensembles and vibrating cigar boxes to resonant domestic objects and materials activated and energised using small battery driven motors.

The unamplified music is quiet yet complex and differentiated as the unique sound of each instrument finds its place within the ensemble. The instability of the activating devices and their power sources present the listener with an ever changing sound field. ​

Performances are site-specific in that individual sound source can be easily moved to take advantage of the architectural features of a given space.


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Forest Transformations

30/7/2020

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More work today on painterly effects and dense textures. These two images are two as yet experimental outcomes from  a work-in-progress where I'm stacking layers of several images of the same woodland captured from slightly different positions. Then I'm trying out different background textures that I shot myself in the garden, using blend modes and selective blurring. There's a lot more work to be done, especially with colour balance and blurring. I like the effect though. With blurring in the right place and small 'clearings' in the overall density you can draw the eye in towards a region of the picture or even into the depth of field. In the top image it's somewhere right of centre in the bottom third. With some textures, bark and woodchip for example (tree-on-tree), you get those distinctive breaks in the picture, resembling early cubism. 
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Painterly Effects and Colour

29/7/2020

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These are some initial explorations into the use of painterly effects on colour images and in the final picture a touch of gradient lighting. A lot of this involves creating your own textures - an alternative yet interesting day out shooting walls and surfaces - along with the use of blurs, blend modes and masks. I use Affinity Photo for image processing and am indebted to David Straker for his generosity in sharing so many online tutorials. I particularly like the effect of offsetting one or two colours against near black and white. Having seen some very good work in the urban setting I think it would be interesting to work with solitary figures against a landscape. The trick is not to overcook things. But who's the judge of that? By the way these were all shot with decent lenses on one of the cheapest Panasonic micro four-thirds cameras. 
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lonely lemon
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alleycats
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dreamboat
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cottage garden
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Landscape as Narrative

5/7/2020

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I came to photography by way of collage. All I ever wanted to do was take my own pictures and make collages but as I found there's so much more to investigate en route. Anyway, here I am, back at the beginning, experimenting with the kind of work that I always wanted to make with respect to landscape. I was discussing the use of film, rolls of 35mm, with a friend of mine, a very experienced and gifted photographic, sculptural and land artist. He spoke about the narrative of the roll of film and it got me thinking about the practices involved in travel photography and about ways of presenting landscape as a simultaneous series, as memories of a day's walk, the intimacies of a personal adventure. 
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Corfu, 2019, Series 1.
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Corfu, 2019, Series 2.
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SELF PORTRAITS

22/6/2020

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I've started a new series of self portraits. I was thinking about one of my favourite photographers, Francesca Woodman, who said she could always rely on herself being available as a subject (don't worry, I've kept my clothes on). Nobody seems to have decided if self portraits are about how you see yourself or how you want others to see you as portrayed by yourself. I never succeeded in getting a handle on commercial portraiture though I'll shoot a wedding if you want to pay me enough. I far prefer these long exposures because they say something about the fragmented nature of our experience of ourselves and because they allow time to enter the frame. Perhaps also, in some cases, such a technique allows us a glimpse of the vulnerability of the subject. This is a project I want to develop both at home and in other environments so I'm looking forward to researching all the great work out there by artists past and present.
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Dream Therapy

17/6/2020

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Twelve track album available for streaming and purchase on Bandcamp

This album is a departure from previous works. The pieces are shorter, more linear and less dense in texture, each short piece making use of no more than three or four sounds. Nonetheless they still sit within the domain of electroacoustic and musique concrète. 

Sound sources include hand-made, found and conventional instruments, home-made electronic devices, field recordings and recordings made with body microphones 

These are abstractions of studies carried out in the natural world - recollections of dreams, walks, walks within dreams and dreams within walks. Released May 22, 2020​

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Glimpse

12/5/2020

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Oxnam Water
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