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Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart was Educated at Cambridge, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music and is active as a composer, performer and improviser. She explores medieval & contemporary extremes, using ancient technologies such as the hurdy gurdy, as well as electronic and computer music technologies of our own time.
She studied composition and electronic music at the University of York with Trevor Wishart and Richard Orten as well as coming into contact with improvised and aleatoric music through studying with John Cage and David Tudor in Edinburgh. By contrast she continued postgraduate performance studies in early music (baroque violin and voice) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Diploma in Advanced Performance) and with a Nuffield Foundation award and a Vicente Cañada Blanch Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford for doctoral research into medieval musical iconography. More recently she received a major Wellcome Trust award to develop her compositions using musical gestures and sound to control how we use computers, and to work with the neuroscientist Ian Winter at the University of Cambridge University on audio processes based on the physiology of the ear.
she "built an imposing sonic edifice...sharpened by the ringing and clanging tones she brought out of the instrument … gradually the piece became a very peculiar hybrid, with shades of Trance and Prog rock, as long distorted notes were laid over the loops. It went down a storm and at the interval wishart CDs were fairly flying off the vendors' trestle tables”
LMC' 9th festival of experimental music Purcell Room, South Bank, London
Will Montgomery,The Wire, London
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