Stormchaser

from Line​-​in: R by Stephen Roddy

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Stormchaser is an exploration of the role of embodied pattern recognition in the structuring of musical experience. Embodied patterns are patterns we encounter in our daily lives that separate meaning from randomness. When the features of an embodied pattern emerge in a random signal that signal stops being random and becomes immediately meaningful. Embodied patterning is at play when the noise of TV static momentarily resolves to present the features of a familiar face, or the clouds align in the shape of some familiar beast. Embodied patterns make the random familiar and add meaning to the meaningless.
Stormchaser explores the use of embodied patterning to structure music along a spectrum of meaningful familiarity that incorporates patterning elements of physicality and bodily movement, spatial location and degrees of harmonic subversion. It never veers from the domain of meaningful musical discourse, preferring signal to noise, but rather explores the grey areas where one embodied pattern blurs into another to create a distinct and specific experience of meaning that is nonetheless elusive and beyond any truly objective quantification. It is the exploration of the new senses of meaning that emerge in the qualitatively concrete yet quantitatively elusive spaces between other meanings that is focus of this piece.

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Stormchaser is an exploration of the role of embodied pattern recognition in the structuring of musical experience. Embodied patterns are patterns we encounter in our daily lives that separate meaning from randomness. When the features of an embodied pattern emerge in a random signal that signal stops being random and becomes immediately meaningful. Embodied patterning is at play when the noise of TV static momentarily resolves to present the features of a familiar face, or the clouds align in the shape of some familiar beast. Embodied patterns make the random familiar and add meaning to the meaningless.
Stormchaser explores the use of embodied patterning to structure music along a spectrum of meaningful familiarity that incorporates patterning elements of physicality and bodily movement, spatial location and degrees of harmonic subversion. It never veers from the domain of meaningful musical discourse, preferring signal to noise, but rather explores the grey areas where one embodied pattern blurs into another to create a distinct and specific experience of meaning that is nonetheless elusive and beyond any truly objective quantification. It is the exploration of the new senses of meaning that emerge in the qualitatively concrete yet quantitatively elusive spaces between other meanings that is focus of this piece.

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from Line​-​in: R, released March 7, 2014

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Stephen Roddy makes "quirky, odd, heavy" electronic music that is "big and bold" and "not afraid of taking risks". Stephen creates immersive multimedia performance systems which he uses in collaboration with other musicians, dancers, and sound artists. Some of this work has been described as “raw, rhythmic, primal yet playful” and “searingly powerful and a sheer joy to behold” ... more

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