Jessica Curry : Composer / Sound Artist

Website: www.jessicacurry.co.uk


Jessica Curry is an award-winning composer and sound artist. Her work incorporates performance, video, installation, public art, virtual worlds and computer games. She fuses traditional orchestration - most frequently based around piano, samples, loops and spoken word – and integrates distortions and out of context sounds into the pieces. Her compositions often mix an urban, modern edge with a haunting and ephemeral yearning – one which is deeply embedded in the very particular spirit of English classical music..

In 2009 Jessica created the music for a series of experimental computer games by Dr Dan Pinchbeck. Dear Esther was exhibited at Prix Ars Electronica 09 and won an Indiecade award in Los Angeles. Their Second Life piece The Second Death of Caspar Helendale was performed at the Royal Opera House in November 09.

Jessica creates beautiful, powerful and provocative music that has a profound effect on the audience- where the music creates the sense of place and evokes unexpected emotional responses.

In September 2010 Jessica’s new work, Perpetual Light: Requiem for an Unscorched Earth will be performed in nuclear bunkers across the UK.

Apr201006

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Frameworks, Crowdfunding, Cassandra and Undocumented Wind Instruments: A look back at SXSWi 2010

There is a good overview of the SXSWi experience and sessions at:
http://rhizome.org/editorial/3410#more
The author of the piece, Nick Hasty writes:
“what I took away from the conference was a rejuvenation of critical, big-picture questioning, a reminder of just how drastically technology is contouring contemporary society and culture and that, ultimately, it is still in our hands to [...]

Mar201020

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South by Southwest: how the geeks took over the world’s coolest festival

Really interesting article in today’s Guardian (20th March 2010)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/20/south-by-southwest-technology-interactive
It questions whether the interactive element of the festival now dominates the event:
“This year has seemed like two tribes – music fan and geek, who, while not quite at war, are engaged in something of a grapple for SXSW’s soul. With fewer members of the music media, [...]