Semisopochnoi (Семисопочный)

Programme notes

Alaska's Aleutian islands are like a string of pearls in the Bering sea, tenuously joining continents. At the western end of the Aleutians is Семисопочный, Semisopochnoi, a tiny island, uninhabited, rarely visited, and over 250 km from the nearest cell phone coverage. Shaped over the aeons by volcanic activity and forces of erosion, Semisopochnoi's seemingly barren landscape is home to millions of birds and a few arctic foxes. As environmental anarchist Edward Abbey noted Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. We all need a Semisopochnoi to escape to, if only in our minds.

In Singapore, Dr Pete Kellock is a prominent entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder and former CEO of muvee Technologies (Singapore-based company that pioneered and led in automatic video editing software). He is an electroacoustic music composer who has designedand built unique electronic instruments and performance systems, such as the Poikilophone and the Rhythm Engine. Pete is also a personal friend of Casteels, with whom he shares a passion for hiking.

Gerry Beauregard is a software developer, musician, and entrepreneur in the music technology field. He founded AudioStretch, a music creation application designed to help musicians transcribe music by allowing them to manipulate the pitch and speed of audio and video files.

Completion of the composition 

31-I-2014

Analysis

see Semisopochnoi thesaurus (2014) under Articles

Recordings

link #1 (video), link #2 (audio)

see blue cover logbook #5

Score follower

 link #3