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Böse (2010) : A 5.1 channel version of Böse (2010) for large-scale multichannel electroacoustics (9 minutes) is to be included on a DVD featuring highlights of the Inventionen Festival in Berlin

Böse is a particular example of the approaches to large scale multichannel electroacoustic composition that we have been developing here in Birmingham. This work has grown out of our ongoing research with the BEAST system, and in particular follows on from our AHRC funded BEASTmulch project. The work makes use of a variety of idiosyncratic approaches to space in electroacoustic music, and uses such techniques as vector base amplitude panning, spectral diffusion using additive resynthesis approaches, spatial granulation, etc. Developing flexible strategies is a crucial aspect of this work, and Böse has been presented on a variety of systems ranging from 5.1 to a 90+ channel periphonic BEAST setup. (This is discussed in more detail in our Organised Sound article “Rethinking the BEAST”; also one of my REF submissions.)

Böse was composed for the Inventionen Festival in Berlin, and was featured (in a version for 5.1 system) in a special DVD featuring multichannel electroacoustic works in the 30 Jahre Inventionen series published by the German label Edition RZ with the support of the DAAD and TU Berlin. It has been presented in numerous other contexts, including in Birmingham, Derby University, De Montfort University, at the Sound Scotland Festival, at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, in Melbourne, Austrailia, and at the Institut für Elektronische Musik and Akustik in Graz, Austria. Note that as the work is purely electroacoustic, no score has been submitted.