Books of Moses

My first tape piece, Books of Moses ap­proaches is­sues of cre­ativ­ity and the col­lec­tive con­scious­ness. I wanted to ex­am­ine the process by which sym­bols are as­sim­i­lated and re-used by cul­tures and the piece de­vel­ops open­ing ma­te­r­ial to­wards a new place un­mis­tak­ably rooted in the past. Sound sources in­cluded car­ri­ers of se­man­tic data such as books, en­velopes, cas­sette tapes and the sound of writ­ing, but also sounds of de­struc­tive processes such as tear­ing and crack­ing sounds.

Books of Moses was com­posed at the Uni­ver­sity of Man­ches­ter’s NO­VARS Re­search Cen­tre for Elec­troa­coustic Com­po­si­tion, Per­for­mance and Sound-Art under the su­per­vi­sion of Ri­cardo Cli­ment and Alexis Guner­atne and was par­tially dif­fused in NO­VARS Stu­dio 1 on 3rd June 2008 along­side works by Joel Bankhead and Nicola Hicks. It re­ceived its pub­lic pre­miere at the Au­tumn 2009 MANTIS Fes­ti­val (30th Oc­to­ber - 1st No­vem­ber).