Sorties
Jonty Harrison
Programme notes
Sorties [Exit] was composed as part of Web, a collaboration between seven BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) composers and graphic artist Lorne Christie. Web was a ‘sound sculpture’ — a walk-through installation in an open-sided canal-side warehouse. The work as a whole evoked images of the elements (air, earth, fire and water) and of a journey — enhanced by the movement of the audience through a continuously varying visual and sonic landscape.
This idea of traveling from one sonic location to another underpins the evolution of Sorties which, as well as forming part of Web, was designed as an independent work. The title has two meanings
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Sorties was realized in 1995 in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (UK) and premiered at the Bond Gallery in Birmingham (UK) during the performance of Web on May 26, 1995 during the Music Live ’95 Festival organized by the BBC. Web was commissioned by the BBC and Birmingham City Council. Sorties was awarded a Prize in the Programme Music Category of the 1996 Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (France).
Premiere
- May 26, 1995, Music Live ’95 — Web
: A Sound Sculpture, Bond Gallery – The Icehouse, Birmingham (England, UK)
Awards
- Composer(s): Jonty Harrison
- Year of composition: 1995
- Duration: 15:14
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: BBC, Birmingham City Council
- ISRC: CAD500014150
