Digital Syzygies, by Andrew Hugill, Anya Ustaszewski, Elisabeth Wiklander, Simon Allen

Digital Syzygies

by Andrew Hugill, Anya Ustaszewski, Elisabeth Wiklander, Simon Allen

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1.	Andrew's world 03:09	info	buy track
2.	Anya's world 03:08	info	buy track
3.	Elisabeth's world 03:44	info	buy track
4.	Simon's world 03:18	info	buy track
5.	Syzygy 1: Andrew and Anya 04:33	info	buy track
6.	Syzygy 2: Anya and Elisabeth 02:22	info	buy track
7.	Syzygy 3: Elisabeth and Simon 04:57	info	buy track
8.	Syzygy 4: Simon and Andrew 05:25	info	buy track
9.	Syzygy 5: Andrew and Elisabeth 03:20	info	buy track
10.	Syzygy 6: Anya and Simon 02:01	info	buy track
11.	Syzygy 7: Andrew, Anya and Elisabeth 03:25	info	buy track
12.	Syzygy 8: Anya, Elisabeth and Simon 04:02	info	buy track
13.	Syzygy 9: Elisabeth, Simon and Andrew 04:23	info	buy track
14.	Syzygy 10: Simon, Andrew and Anya 03:31	info	buy track
15.	Syzygy 11: Quartet with Andrew's cello 05:36	info	buy track
16.	Syzygy 12: Quartet with Simon's cello 07:58	info	buy track

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www.digitalsyzygies.org.uk

Digital Syzygies is a digital score and a set of neural-controlled musical compositions and performances.

This first album was created as a Case Study for The Digital Score research project, which is funded by the European Research Council and led by Professor Craig Vear at De Montfort University.

The Digital Syzygies project is led by the composer Andrew Hugill, who is both autistic and has severe hearing loss. It involves three other d/Deaf and/or neurodivergent participants: Anya Ustaszewski, an autistic composer and musician who works with a variety of sounds and instruments and has a particular interest in immersive and abstract narrative sound experiences; Elisabeth Wiklander, a classical cellist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra who is also a Cultural Ambassador of the National Autistic Society; and Simon Allen, a composer and percussionist, who experienced a slow change in his hearing up until 1993(?) which has brought 50% loss from the top down on the audiogram, accompanied by hyperacusis, tinnitus and two hearing aids.

The project uses the Emotiv Insight EEG Brain Interface to connect these four musicians. Dring the Case Study, they were remotely located in Sweden, Sri Lanka/London, Brighton and Leicester. The system functioned as a digital score and was powered by a Python application built by Craig Vear that allowed the brains of the musicians to dictate the course of musical events, subject to responses measured by six performance metrics: engagement, excitement, focus, interest, relaxation, stress. This resulted in some extraordinary correspondences and revelations, which emerged at every level: musical, technical and personal. This is evident in the album, which contains sixteen syzygies (alignments) that explore the individual brains of each musician and their relationship with each others' worlds.

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released October 3, 2022

Musicians: Andrew Hugill, Anya Ustaszewski, Elisabeth Wiklander, Simon Allen.
Programming: Craig Vear.

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Andrew Hugill Market Harborough, UK

b. 1957. Composer of mixed acoustic and electroacoustic music.

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