Wishart has directed the development of an audio and gestural interface to control the computer as a violinist.
Mixing arcane technologies such as Stevie Wishart's own hurdy-gurdy with contemporary digital and analogue sound, transient fragments of pre-classical music cross fade, collide and undergo electronic transformations.
Stevie Wishart, composer, improviser and experimenter returns to her medieval roots in Red Iris, a sequence of 14th century Florentine istampite of dazzling virtuosity.
The hurdy-gurdy is one of our oldest musical instruments, and specifically of European invention. Its sound is utterly unique: both timeless & musically undefinable.
ICED for orchestra, Theremin and live electronics commissioned by Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Belgium and Art Zoyd, Transfrontalier de Productions et de Créations Musicales, France.