webwizard, Author at Leigh Landy

Musical Bow Old / New (2024)

Musical Bow Old / New (2024) For various musical bows and 8-channel recording, 14′ – commissioned by the South African College of Music / University of Cape Town for

In Transit (1999)

Photo from a performance of In Transit at the Maxis Festival at the University of Leeds. This piece is about the feeling of always being too busy or in between things

Lottopus (1998)

HA devised piece in which the spirit of games and competition initially inspired by the social icon known as the Lottery merged with the hard work of an Opus whilst

Experiencing Organised Sounds, The Listening Experience Across Diverse Sound-Based Works

Experiencing Organised Sounds: The listening experience across sound-based works. Abingdon: Routledge – x, 229p. + copious media examples online. Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using

Qing + Cha 磬 + 镲 Old / New 舊 / 新 (2023)

For E. Asian bowls and cymbals, 8-channel recording, commissioned by Thierry Miroglio, 6’. Programme note: This is the fourth work in Landy’s Old/New series that commenced with the international commissioned

Aplican Términos y Condiciones (2022)

Mexican piece for the radio series (7), commissioned by CMMAS+ENES/UNAM for the Visiones Sonoras festival, 8-channel work, 13’20”. Programme note: This is the 7th piece in the Radio Series, which,

E Pluribus Plures (2021)

Commission from the Musicacoustica Festival, Beijing: 8-channel work using world music samples, 18’45”. Programme note: : Shortly prior to starting this work I heard Issho-ni (Together, 2014, 31’) in which

Bon voyage? (1997)

“Bon voyage?” deals with the quirks of travel in a dynamic sound and movement work which takes the viewer from many a queue at the beginning of a voyage to

PS REMLX (2020)

Samples of Pete Stollery’s voice, soundscape recordings and compositions remixed (for his LXth birthday) – 1′.

(Y)our House (1996)

(Y)our House is fully devised work which is influenced by Georges Perec’s unusual text La vie – mode d’emploi, translated as “Life – A User’s Guide”. This large book does nothing but