Scott Gibbons
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Scott Gibbons is an American-born composer and performer of electroacoustic
music. His work is notable for its rigorous use of single objects as sole instrumentation (for example Imagined Compositions for Water, which uses only field recordings of bodies of water).
"It's not really possible to say how it sounds, only that it does. Knowing what it sounds like is a particular kind of knowledge that only seems to be useful, or even exist, at the time of hearing itself." - Nicholas Ridout, Performance Research
"Scott Gibbons' music... feels as if it is happening inside your own head." - The Guardian
Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
music. His work is notable for its rigorous use of single objects as sole instrumentation (for example Imagined Compositions for Water, which uses only field recordings of bodies of water).
Critical response
"Gibbons' tendency to understatement is extraordinary. What he shows us seems to be... not the event itself, but the trail." - The Wire"It's not really possible to say how it sounds, only that it does. Knowing what it sounds like is a particular kind of knowledge that only seems to be useful, or even exist, at the time of hearing itself." - Nicholas Ridout, Performance Research
"Scott Gibbons' music... feels as if it is happening inside your own head." - The Guardian
Significant works
- Genesi: from the museum of sleep by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (1999) - music and sound for director Romeo Castellucci's landmark piece for theatre.
- Scribble by Golan LevinGolan LevinGolan Levin is an American new media artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.-Biography:...
, Scott Gibbons and Gregory Shakar (2000) - a performance on Levin's AVES gestural audio-video synthesis software. - Dialtones by Golan LevinGolan LevinGolan Levin is an American new media artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.-Biography:...
, Scott Gibbons and Gregory Shakar (2002) - a performance for more than 200 cell phones. - Tragedia Endogonidia by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (2002–04) - music and sound for a series of eleven episodes, eleven video documents, an atlas room and numerous outgrowths.
- Feu d'Artifice by Scott Gibbons and Groupe F (2003) - music arranged and performed using only captured sound and samples of pyrotechnicsPyrotechnicsPyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound...
. - The Cryonic Chants by Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi (2005) - a vocal concert on a text which was formulaically created by a goat.
- La Face Cachée du Soleil by Groupe F (2007) - theatre of fire, light and pyrotechnicsPyrotechnicsPyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound...
with music by Laurent Dehors, Scott Gibbons and Eric Travers. - La Flamme de mes Rêves (Lux Populi ep. 1) by Groupe F (2008) - theatre of fire, light and pyrotechnicsPyrotechnicsPyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound...
with music by Scott Gibbons. - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (2008) - trilogy freely inspired by the Divine Comedy of Dante AlighieriDante AlighieriDurante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante , was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ...
, with original music by Scott Gibbons.
- des Paysages by Groupe F (2008) - theatre of fire, light and pyrotechnicsPyrotechnicsPyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound...
with music by Scott Gibbons.
Discography
- 1987: nipple runs. (White Noise)
- 1988: ripped nuns. (White Noise)
- 1990: The Taboos of the Lashing Creeper by Lilith (Ladd-Frith)
- 1991: Some Modes of Probability by Lilith (White Noise)
- 1991: Mantle by Lilith (White Noise)
- 1992: Stone by Lilith (Sub RosaSub Rosa (label)Sub Rosa is a record label based in Brussels. The label was established at the end of the ‘80s, and expanded its catalogue in the mid-‘90s through the release of electronic music. Directed by Guy Marc Hinant and Frédéric Walheer, the label has released over 250 titles...
) - 1994: Orgazio by Lilith (Sub RosaSub Rosa (label)Sub Rosa is a record label based in Brussels. The label was established at the end of the ‘80s, and expanded its catalogue in the mid-‘90s through the release of electronic music. Directed by Guy Marc Hinant and Frédéric Walheer, the label has released over 250 titles...
) - 1995: Redwing by Lilith (Sub RosaSub Rosa (label)Sub Rosa is a record label based in Brussels. The label was established at the end of the ‘80s, and expanded its catalogue in the mid-‘90s through the release of electronic music. Directed by Guy Marc Hinant and Frédéric Walheer, the label has released over 250 titles...
) - 1998: Orbitronik by Orbitronik (World Domination Records)
- 1999: My Computer My Stereo by Orbitronik (Thousand)
- 1999: Unplugged by Orbitronik (Ladd-Frith)
- 1999: Field Notes by Lilith (World Domination Records)
- 2002: Dialtones by Levin/Gibbons/Shakar (StaalplaatStaalplaatStaalplaat is an independent record label that is located in Amsterdam with a separate store in Berlin. Created in 1982, the company's mission was created as a sound forum for sound artists, who write and perform new and experimental music...
) - 2002: Imagined Compositions for Water by Lilith (Disques HushushDisques HushushDisques Hushush Inc. is an independent record label created by Dimitri della Faille in Montreal , Canada in 1998...
) - 2002: Strawberry by Strawberry (Taigkyo)
- 2007: Tragedia Summa by Scott Gibbons (Rarovideo)
- 2008: The Cryonic Chants by Scott Gibbons & Chiara Guidi (KML Recordings/Sonic Invaders)
External links
- Scott Gibbons official site
- [ Allmusic.com]'s entry on Gibbons' project Lilith