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Sound Samples
of Orginal Compositions
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You'll need the Shockwave Plug ins
to hear anything!
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4 hour and 17 minute cyclic phase composition. NCEIA Industry
Award, "Best Experimental Song 1996". 1998 National Digital Arts Award finalist, exhibited at Brisbane's Institute
of Modern Art First 57 minutes available on CD now!
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A funky instrumental guitar based
tune spiced with modulating modality. Guitar performed by Colin
Black.
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A non-linear interactive version of
"First Kiss". This is a scaled down sample from the
"Clearing The Water"
Enhanced Music CD. Don't forget to use that mouse! (418k
download)
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Internationally
recognised composer/sound artist Colin Black won the prestigious
Prix Italia Award (2003) in the category Best Music Radio - Composed
Work for composing and producing his major work 'The Ears Outside
My Listening Room' which BBC radio 3 has described as "a
haunting evocation of Australia". In 2004 Black was invited
by The National Radio Company of Ukraine to help adapt this work
for a Ukrainian audience.
In 2006, Black
will be creating a new major radio art work entitled 'Alien In
The Landscape (Extended Enviro Guitar)' which has been commissioned
for Deutschlandradio Kultur's Klangkunst program. He is also currently
writing and recording a new major musical/soundart hybrid work
for performance and broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
network.
In previous years
Black was commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
to co-produce & compose two major audio/musical works with
a Greek theme for their Olympic programming. Black's works have
also been selected for performance at events including ""En
Red O 2000" music festival Barcelona Spain, the Festival
Synthese Bourges France, Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel
France, 60x60 Pacific Basin Regional Concert Los Angeles USA,
Zèppelin 2004-Festival de Arte Sonoro Barcelona, Spain,
Hipersonica 2004 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, The Literature Sound Barrier
2002 in Wien, Austria, Sydney University's Live Wires concerts
'97, '98, and Melbourne's Extatic Concert for the Next Wave festival
'98
Black's sound installations
include the Parramatta Heritage Centre's "Parramatta: People
& Place" exhibition which is to run for seven years,
a dynamic multi-site soundscape and the Starcourt Theatre Space
sound installation "Floodscape" for the NORPA 2004 production
of "The Flood". A finalist in the Australian National
Digital Arts Awards '98, his experimental composition "118,
120 122" was exhibited at Brisbane's Institute of Modern
Art.
Black is a graduate
of the UNE Contemporary Music Degree and has an Honorary Graduate
Diploma of Musical Directing and Composing for TV from the Australian
Film, Television and Radio School. He has presented his research
paper on Radio Art at the 2005 'Vital Signs' conference, which
was organised by RMIT University's, School of Creative Media,
Melbourne. Black was also invited to talk about radio arts and
his work on London's Resonance 104.4FM, at the Sibelius Academy
in Helsinki, Technische Universität Berlin, Macquarie University
in Sydney and the Victoria University of Wellington.
Black's work has
been selected for broadcast and podcast on stations including
Deutschlandradio Kultur, the BBC, YLE Radio, Sweden's Sveriges
Radio as well as many other European stations and in South Africa,
New Zealand and numerous times across Australia.
Black's Awards, Nominations
and Fellowships include:
<<
what they say about colin's work >>
"A haunting evocation
of Australia"
- BBC Radio 3,
11th June 2004
" a unanimous choice
as the winner in this category."
"It created a mood
and sustained it throughout, with the speech and music adding
up to something distinctly more than the sum of their parts."
"...lived up to the
claim that here was a patchwork sonic quilt that can be passed
down the generations."
- Prix Italia Award's
International Jury Report, 2003
"The Listening
Room broadcasts it's last show. It goes out with style, broadcasting
the Prix Italia Award-winning work of Australian composer Colin
Black. The Ears Outside My Listening Room was specifically created
for the acoustic music show and features people speaking from
all around the country"
- The Sydney Morning Herald, 15/12/03
"It is the human
themes and Black's clever composition that bind the stories and
music together."
- State of the
Arts, Arts News, 1st December 2003
"Voices are burned
into my auditory memory rendering them unforgettable"
"... a comprehensive
work made of suggestion, mood and voiceprint character studies
that gives a tangible, inclusive and unselfconscious impression
of Australian-ness and its many voices. "
"... both a celebratory
and a melancholic work about the fragility of existence ."
- Gail Priest,
Arts/Music Journalist, RealTime magazine, No.52 December 02/January
03
"The jury of the
Prix Italia was right to give you the award. The way to "think"
music as a composition done out of language, noise and instrumental
arrangements works perfectly"
- Andreas Hagelüken,
RBB-Internationale Radiokunst, Berlin/Freiburg
"Colin's music and
multi-artform works are technically competent, original and engaging.
he has also demonstrated a considerable interest in and talent
for some of the more innovative and experimental aspects of contemporary
music making including electro-acoustic music and the interaction
between music and other media, both in theatre, live multimedia,
and web-based multimedia."
- Associate Professor
Michael Hannan BA (Hons) PhD, Southern Cross University
" it's very much
about memory."
"This convergence
of recordings as an audio documentary and at the same time a carrier
of music and sonic experimentation really explores this dual potential
for recording."
- David Toop, Author
of "Ocean of Sound", 11th June 2004,
"A hard act to follow.
You've done a fantastic job on bringing all the music together,
and directing the band."
- Edward Primrose,
Screen Composition Lecturer, Australian Film Television and Radio
School
"wonderful program,
high artistic level of which impressed all editors of our Music
Department. We use it as an educational aid and example of outstanding
professionalism and creative seekings."
- Valery Krutouz,
16th April 2004, International Relations Dept, National Radio
Company of Ukraine
<< Film
& TV Soundtrack Credits Include >>
2002, Dusk Productions,
"Dusk" - Feature film music commission
2000,
Armand de Saint-Salvy, "Punch Me, I love You" - St Kilda Film
Festival 2001 finalist, NSW Film and TV Office funded short film
music commission.
2000, Cristina Veira, "Coda"- Short film music commission.
2000, Robert Puffett,
"Blind Spot"
- Short
film music commission.
1999, Arena TV - Foxtel,
"The Variety Show
at The End of The World" - Musical Director/ Composer/Arranger/
Session Musician
1999, David O'brien,
"Fixxed"
- Short
film music soundtrack commission. Brekfest Short Film Festival
Finalist (Art Gallery of NSW screening) & Pandanus Film Festival
Finalist.
1999, FaNODa "Jump" - Short film music soundtrack
commission.
1998
Elizabeth Carlon "2nd
Wind" - Short film music soundtrack commision. Bathurst
Film Festival Finalist.
1995
LINC TV "Video
Factory" - Surfing music soundtrack, "Green Peace"
- soundtrackMusic
1992
LINC TV
"Not The Nasty News" - Theme Music "North Coast
Harley" - Jingle "Bryants Nursery" - Jingle "Electronic
Enterprises" - Jingle
1992
Feral Productions "Visions
of Killerankie" - Documentary Soundtrack , "Mummel '92"
- Documentary Soundtrack, "NEFA goes to Sydney" - Documentary
Soundtrack
"Hell
Fire" (TV show band for "The Variety Show at The End
of The World" live on set)
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