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What their label says...

London based sound artist Conor J Curran’s Form is a retrospective of the CjC output
between 2000 & 2003. Although there have been several previous releases from
this album (Psychonavigation records - Psy 001,Psy 002 & Psy 003 and Silverdoor
records - SIDO 10) it has never been released as one complete body of work.
Sound sources range from found sounds (elastic bands, match strikes,head shavers,
tapped glasses, bicycle chain-sets, shaken water bottles) to processed traditional
instruments (harmonica, hammond organ, guitar,voice, rhodes) to digitally gener-
ated artifacts such as glitches, noise variants and sine waves.
As the artist explains : “Even though it’s old I felt this album captures my over-
arching sound aesthetic. Recently I have been developing a custom compositional/
performance audio software suite that exhibits timbres very similar to those
found in ‘Form’ which was written using conventional audio software of the time
(VST’s,sequencing, EMU samplers).”

From 2001 to 2003 Conor’s focus was split between audio work and the software
development of ‘Parallel’, a 2D music visualisation application. He sites the geomet-
ric qualities of ‘Parallel’ as the origins of the timbre and expression of the music, as
is echoed in the design of the album.

“It occurred to me that my inspiration - even then - was as much influenced by the
software I was writing as it was by my love of music, embodying the strict adherence
to form, precision and discrete interpretations of state.”


Conor J Curran studied at Trinity College Dublin under electro
acoustic composers
Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle.After leaving Dublin in 2003 Conor lectured
Software Design at Aalborg University Esbjerg/Copenhagen for two years before
moving to London where he now works for Canonical (Ubuntu) as a
desktop software architect for sound.

His work both music and audio/visual software has been used in video and still
image by Tim Redfern (www.eclectronics.org), in modern dance by Dance Theatre
of Ireland (Evidence 2001) and in Film by Conor McCourt (Four Cops
1999). Conor’s
Parallel, a music visualisation application, was featured at London’s
Cybersonica
2002, on Rhizome.org and Neural.it. Parallel v1.2 was exhibited in
‘exhibit1’ at the
Digital Hub in Dublin city from January to March 2003.

More recently Conor's efforts have been guided towards the live improv
project known as Sonnamble.

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