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Ambrose Field is a British composer. Field’s music is characterised by lush, harmonic sound worlds and evocative vocal textures. It connects both ancient and contemporary approaches to composition, often drawing inspiration from visual cultures. The influence of medieval forms and process is audible in his current music, yet this is combined with a sound world informed by
spectralism Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition. Definition Defined in technical language, spectral music is an acoustic musical practice where compositional decisions are often inform ...
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room acoustics Room acoustics is a subfield of acoustics dealing with the behaviour of sound in enclosed or partially-enclosed spaces. The architectural details of a room influences the behaviour of sound waves within it, with the effects varying by frequency ...
, and the possibilities offered by live electronics.


Works

* Aqueduct Zero * Geosphere * Grey Sky Traffic * Till * Expanse Hotel (first performed at the ICMC in
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, 1999) * One Hell of a place to lose a cow * UK weather * Storm! (on
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) * Being Dufay, 2009 (choral works by medieval composer
Guillaume Dufay Guillaume Du Fay ( , ; also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397 – 27 November 1474) was a composer and music theorist of early Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered the leading European composer of h ...
set to electronic music).


Prizes

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Prix Ars Electronica The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria ...
honourable mentions; 1997, 1998 and 2006 * Electroacoustic tape music without instrument, 2003 Bourges Competition. * Laureate, 30e Concours International de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustique (2004)


Samples online


Storm! (2 tracks)Being Dufay (1 track)


References

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