Peter Batchelor: composer, sound designer

Cascade

for 256 channel flat panel speaker array • 2018+

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CONCEPT • DEVELOPMENT • DOCUMENTATION
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DOCUMENTATION

Cascade presents a flat-panel array of 256 small loudspeakers suspended in a 16x16 array above the listener. The volume of speakers is accommodated by the use of affordable technologies—networked Raspberry Pi computers and cheap multichannel gaming interfaces. Aside from exploring the technical and aesthetic challenges inherent in managing such volumes of loudspeakers with a view to creating a coherent spatial sound environment, the installation seeks, through a series of short compositions, to consider the deployment of acousmatic compositional materials and strategies across the ‘flat panel’ speaker space.

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PACE Studio 2, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Presented as part of the Bringing New Music to New Audiences international conference run by the Music, Technology and Innovation - Institute for Sonic Creativity (MTI2)
21 - 23 September 2018

"a thing of great delicate beauty" — Duncan Chapman

Cascade: DMU, Leicester

Cascade: DMU, Leicester Cascade: DMU, Leicester

Cascade: DMU, Leicester Cascade: DMU, Leicester

Cascade: DMU, Leicester Cascade: DMU, Leicester (photo: James Andean)

(photos by James Andean (used with permission) & Peter Batchelor)

(footage by Peter Batchelor)

 

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Studio 1, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Presented as part of BEAST FEaST 2018 international conference run by the Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre
26-28 April 2018

Cascade: BEAST, University of Birmingham (photo: William Fallows)

Cascade: BEAST, University of Birmingham Cascade: BEAST, University of Birmingham (photo: William Fallows)

Cascade: BEAST, University of Birmingham Cascade: BEAST, University of Birmingham (photo: William Fallows)

(photos by William Fallows (used with permission) & Peter Batchelor)