WORKS LIST
Selected works of Stevie Wishart
2008
New Work for members of the Britten Sinfonia and young musicians from three Ipswich Schools for Random Dance, July 2008
Sound of gesture - solos for violin, sensors & computer sound transformation/ synthesis (Wishart has directed the development of an audio and gestural interface to control the computer as a violinist). The computer generated music moves between the speakers of the sound-dome to create sonic clouds around the acoustic sound and physical placement of the violin. ZKM|Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie. Germany. MORE ...
2007
Europa with the ensemble Sinfonye using theorbo, guitar, organ, hurdy-gurdy and voices for Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Styriarte Festival in Graz, for June 2007. MORE ...
Quartet by Margie Medlin for dancer, robot camera, musician and virtual dancer. Performed and composed the music for violin, music sensors and computer instruments. Co-produced by the ICA and the Wellcome Trust, London, February 2007.
2006
Music for dance piece the Chambre Blanche by Michele Noiret, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, and Festival Bellone-Brigittines, Brussels. Lauréate du Prix de la Danse 2006 de la Communauté française de Belgique
The sound of gesture for violin, voice, & sensor controlled virtual-instruments for laptop – performed by the composer/improviser for the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, hosted by IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris in collaboration with the MINT/OMF of the Sorbonne University; Cambridge Music Festival, and Arts Centre Vooruit Gent/UNESCO, Homo Futuris festival, Belgium
2003-2005
Wellcome Trust Sciart Production Award with Margie Medlin in collaboration with the Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge: to research, compose and develop a gestural musical language and technique for the music for QUARTET, for musician, virtual dancer, solo dancer and robot camera, 2005-2006
Music for video installation PANG Anouk de Clercq commissioned by for Contour 2nd Biennale of Video Art 2005, Mechelen and TEMPS D'IMAGES at Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels) and at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland), September to December 2005
ISLAND UNIVERSES - ensemble piece for tuba, bass flute, viola, bass clarinet, and harp, with live electronics and the mechanical sounds of 4 slide projectors. The audience is immersed in a series of Island Universes* where electronic and instrumental sound interact with the gradually darkening concert space and the continuously changing gaseous images of Ludo Engel’s’ projections. Commissioned by the new music group Q02, Brussels with funds from the Flemish Government, in production with Concertgebouw, Bruges, and De Singel, Antwerp.
ICED for orchestra, Theremin and live electronics commissioned by Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Belgium and Art Zoyd, Transfrontalier de Productions et de Créations Musicales, France. The work is notated with a score including parts to be played on midi keyboard and drum pads to “play” virtual instrument in Max/MSP, with string orchestra, gongs, and Theremin with 6 channel sound spacialisation.
ROUGE CLOÎTRE inspired by the madness of the painter Hugo van der Goes for renaissance and contemporary voices, harp, organ, lutes, hurdy-gurdy, commissioned and produced by the Festival van Vlaanderen/Radio Klara 2004
JONGLEURS DU COEUR - new piece for Zefiro Torna; soprano, lute, wind instruments, tromba-marine, percussion, hurdy-gurdy and medieval fiddle. Commissioned by the early music group, Brussels 2004
Transients for voices, prepared and classical harps, oud, sentir (Arabic lute and string bass), Moroccan hand drums, drum-kit, hurdy-gurdy and live electronics. The ensemble is ongoing and was specially chosen to include musicians from Sinfonye the composer’s medieval group, and from improvised, contemporary, and Arabic music. Commissioned by the Beursschouwberg, Brussels and the radio Klara festival van Vlaanderen
Music for theatre piece Wraak (REVENGE) by Belgian actor Nadia Abdelouafii. Produced and commissioned by the Cultural Centre of Berchem, Antwerp, about the lives of Moroccan women in northern Europe. Toured in Holland and Belgium and music performed live by the composer
Music for Slow Love by the Australian writer Richard Murphet. Produced in Belgium by Theater Malpertuis, the piece toured the Flemish theatres during autumn 1999 and then played for the 2000 Telstra Adelaide Festival, Australia.