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Ephemeral Cube and Solid - a collaborative work between Colin Reid (glass maker) and Rob Godman (composer) has been short-listed for the prestigious Bombay Sapphire Prize. As a result, the work will be toured in galleries throughout the United Kingdom. more ...  Fly Wheel Fantasy |
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Biographical NotesRobert Godman (b. 1964) studied at The Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and later with Simon Bainbridge in London.Much of his music explores the relationship between sound and the other senses - can you 'see' a sound or 'hear' visually? Rob has developed a keen interest in the work of Mike Leigh and has composed four works that deal with issues of communication (or rather lack of communication!), hearing and listening. He has received ACE commissions from The County Youth Second Orchestra of Bedfordshire and for a percussion and UPIC work for Evelyn Glennie. A frequent collaborator, he has worked with Roger Heaton and the Siobhan Davies Dance Company, the CandoCo Dance Company (for which 'Fly Wheel Fantasy' is released on the Discus CD label), and Architect Jason Cornish. continue |
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Most recent performances include 'The Golden One' by The County Youth Second Orchestra of Bedfordshire at this years Edinburgh Festival, 'Abigail's Video Diary' by The New River Wind Orchestra at Canterbury (BASBWE) and 'Abigail - the Sequels!' (for Solo Piano) by Peter Lawson at the BBC Manchester Platform for Composers' at Manchester University. He has had works premiered at The St. Magnus Festival and The Bath International Festival. Other works have been performed by The BBC Singers and Gemini.In 1989 he was awarded The Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for Composition. He worked under the PRS Scheme as Composer-in-Residence for Bedfordshire and published 'Looks Composed!' - a book and tape containing teaching approaches to mixed-media and collaborative methods of composing. More recent projects have included a sound track for the documentary film 'Bird' with writer Adam Lively at HM Prison, Bedford and an exploration of evolving artificial and 'real' acoustics (with purpose written programming for an installation initiated by The Lighthouse, Brighton). A community project with The Philharmonia Orchestra in Bedford producing an audio documentary featuring stories of the musical lives of people from Goldington Day Centre, his own parents and relatives and the orchestral members themselves. starting from 23rd September 2003 until January 2004 at: The Geffyre Museum Kingsland Road London E2 8EA Ephemeral Cube consists of 256 strips of glass suspended to form a one-metre cube. As each piece of glass and its reflections move, the work shifts and changes. Looking at it is like trying to focus on the reflections in moving water. The piece has a quiet, intriguing presence, tempered by slight feelings of menace of such a weight of glass suspended so lightly. Solid is derived from sounds of glass. Rob digitally dismantled the sounds into tiny constituent parts (known as sonic grains) and reconstructed them into a self-generative and ever-evolving piece of music, which has a haunting resemblance to the sound, and feeling of glass. Solid is an imaginary exploration of the resonance of glass, heard from within the structure, rather than outside in the air. http://freespace.virgin.net/colin.reid2/ephemeralCube.htm |
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