Hannah Gibbs

PermalinkComments Off Aside

Hannah Gibbs works in audio collages of music, text and poetry, creating ‘radiophonic soundscapes’. A sound artist, she composes electro acoustic music in addition to collaborating with/commissioning composers. Particularly interested in creating musical works which use text and poetry, which both inform and entertain, she challenges preconceived ideas of ‘tape’ composition.

Works:

‘Of Laughter and Forgetting’: A Sound Installation September 2011

Tale: A Radiophonic Soundscape March 2011

Tale for Horn and Electronics March 2011

The Blue Guitar: A Radiophonic Soundscape April 2010

Tours and Projects Administrator

By hannahgibbs on January 14, 2012
This entry is filed under Uncategorized.Comments Off

After finishing my internship in the Tours and Projects department at the leading London Music agency Intermusica, I was offered the role or Administrator, Tours and Projects and since April 2012 I have been working full time in the department.

Of Laughter and Forgetting

By hannahgibbs on August 16, 2011
This entry is filed under Performances.Comments Off

On Tuesday 6th September 2011 from
2.30pm till 5.00pm my newest work, a sound installation called ‘Of Laughter and Forgetting’ was installed at the Unitarian Chapel on St. Saviourgate in York city centre.

About the juxtaposition of forgetting and remembering please click here to find out more information.

Wilton’s Music Hall

By hannahgibbs on July 12, 2011
This entry is filed under Uncategorized.Comments Off

I am extremely pleased to say I have received an internship at the wonderful Wilton’s Music Hall in London, starting in September. As an assistant producer, my particular project will be to help to co-ordinate the Cable Street Celebrations, commemorating the 70th Anniversary of Eastenders stopping Fascism, literally in its tracks, in London (and the UK). So, come on down the Wilton’s from 30 Sep-4 Oct for cinema screenings, sound art, concerts and much more!

The Blue Guitar on URY

By hannahgibbs on June 10, 2011
This entry is filed under Performances.Comments Off

Many thanks to John Wakefield for broadcasting The Blue Guitar on URY (University Radio York) on 5 June 2011. John’s interview with me, plus an extract of Blue Guitar can be heard on the URY website here.

Tale: A Radiophonic Soundscape

By hannahgibbs on June 10, 2011
This entry is filed under Works.Comments Off

Inspired by French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s poem ‘Conte‘, or ‘Tale’ in English from his Illuminations collection, this radiophonic soundscape simultaneously charts the progression of the poem, and Rimbaud’s life. Using my composition Tale for Horn and Electronics as a music basis for the work, poetry and text are woven to create a tapestry of sound.

Arthur Rimbaud by Picasso

Toutes les femmes qui l’avaient connu
furent assassinées. Quel saccage du jardin
de la beauté! Sous le sabre, elles le bénirent.

All the women he had known were done
to death. What havoc in the garden of beauty!
As the blade fell, they blessed him.

- Arthur Rimbaud ‘Conte’ trans. Sorrell

IAWM

By hannahgibbs on June 10, 2011
This entry is filed under Uncategorized.Comments Off

I am pleased to announce I received an honourable mention for ‘Tale: A Radiophonic Soundscape’ by the IAWM (International Alliance of Women in Music) in their search for New Music 2011 Competition – New Genre Prize – Innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation.

The full list of all winners and honourable mentions can be found at:
http://iawm.org/oppsComp_snm_currentWinners.htm

Tale for Horn and Electronics

By hannahgibbs on March 29, 2011
This entry is filed under Works.Comments Off

An electro acoustic piece for French Horn and tape track, ‘Tale’, was inspired by the poem Conte by Arthur Rimbaud and traces the story of the poem.

Beginning with a jealous, angry Prince, the soundscape narrates both his subsequent murder of women and animals, and everything surrounding him: but nothing brings him the Truth he craves. A Génie appears. The distinction between the Horn and the Electronics becomes difficult to discern. A voice suddenly becomes clear, singing the riddle ‘La musique savant manque à notre désir.’

The Blue Guitar at the Spring Festival

By hannahgibbs on March 29, 2011
This entry is filed under Performances.Comments Off

On the 13^th, 14^th& 15^th May 2010 the Blue Guitar: A Radiophonic Soundscape was premièred, in a revised version, as a multimedia installation at the Spring Festival of New Music.

Etchings by David Hockney, which were created to accompany Wallace Steven’s poem ‘The Man with the Blue Guitar’, were projected on to a screen, while the radiophonic soundscape was played over loudspeakers.

Listening on sofas, chairs and eventually standing around, as people waiting to see the concert after the installation arrived, the audience could enjoy the ‘broadcast’.

The Blue Guitar: A Radiophonic Soundscape

By hannahgibbs on March 28, 2011
This entry is filed under Works.Comments Off

Imagine a tapestry of music, woven around words.

The man bent over his guitar,

A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.

They said, “You have a blue guitar,

You do not play things as they are.”

The man replied, “Things as they are,

Are changed on the blue guitar.”

And they said then, “But play you must,

A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,

A tune upon the blue guitar,

Of things exactly as they are.” – Wallace Stevens, ‘The Man with the Blue Guitar’.

The Blue Guitar: A Radiophonic Soundscape is an audio work exploring the world of the Blue Guitar through music, poetry and art.

Combining new compositions by six students/alumni of the University of York, together with poetry recitation, a spoken text the piece explores the chain of inspiration from Pablo Picasso’s painting ‘The Old Guitarist’, Wallace Stevens’ poem, ‘The Man with the Blue Guitar’ and David Hockney’s etchings, ‘The Blue Guitar’. Created to be broadcast on radio this work also functions as a performance piece and an installation.