Shioum concerns itself with gradual changes of state. In the early stages of developing material for this piece, I created a short phrase made from electronically generated sounds produced by feeding the output of a sound processor back into itself. The first part of this phrase, which is quoted in full about a minute into the piece, sounds like the invented onomatopoeia "shioum", but more importantly is a sound which is changing state as it progresses - harmonically (it moves gradually along the harmonic spectrum) and melodically (it drops gradually in pitch). Much of the material used consists of long phrases, some aspect of which changes gradually. Sounds which were background material at one stage are brought to the fore at another stage. Some phrases fade away, some skid to a halt or gradually disintegrate into constituent parts.
Shioum was realised in the Electroacoustic Music Studio at Northern College, Aberdeen in 1994 and was first performed in December 1994 at the MAC in Birmingham, UK as part of the RUMOURS concert series.
Shioum appears on Un Son Peut En Cacher Un Autre available from bandcamp
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Acousmatica
Performances
1994
Dec 4 - Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham - BEAST
1995
Mar 2 - University of Glasgow
Apr 7 - LAFORIA, Université de Paris VII/VIII, France - Journées d’Informatique Musicale
Jun 11 - The Lemon Tree Theatre, Aberdeen
Sep 2 - Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada - International Computer Music Conference
Sep 30 - Acquario Romano, Rome - Musica Verticale
Dec 10 - RTQE, Madison, USA
1996
Jul 13 - Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh
Dec 14 - Centre Noroit, Arras, France - Acousmatica
Jul 24 - 220 Volts, De Conzertzender, The Netherlands
Apr 26 - Studio 303, Montréal, Canada - Bruits du Noir
Sep - Earwaves Radio Network, USA
Feb - Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer, London - State of the Nation
Apr - Temporary Nice Place, CIUT-FM, Toronto
1997
Mar - The Lemon Tree Theatre, Aberdeen - Dance and Technologies; dancer - Andy Howitt
Apr - Temporary Nice Place, CIUT-FM, Toronto
May - John Lill Music Centre, Hatfield
1998
Feb - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA - Unbalanced Connection 2
Mar - Turner Sims Hall, Southampton
2000
Dec - Virtual Concert Hall, KAJX, Aspen, USA
2001
Jan 21 - 220 Volts, De Conzertzender, The Netherlands
2002
Jan - Melbourne Possible Musics 2002
2003
Mar 10 - Acoustic Frontiers, CKCU-FM 93.1, Ottawa, Canada
2004
Mar 1 - Universidade FM Radio Station, 107.9 MHz - Springel & Zabrinsky Radio Programme
2006
Nov 17 - Borderline Music für Grenzengänger, Freies Radio Kassell, Germany
2007
Apr 1 - Radio Horizon, South Africa
May 14 - Foldover, WOBC 91.5 FM, Oberlin, Ohio, USA - Foldover
Aug 19 - Martian Gardens, WMUA 91.1 FM, USA - Martian Gardens
2008
Mar 1 - Radio Horizon 93.9, South Africa
2010
Jan 18 - CKCU 93.1FM, Canada - Acoustic Frontiers
2013
Apr10 - Cincinnati Conservatory of Music - CCM
2022
May 18 - FOLDOVER, USA