ANU music students electrify crowd at Carillon
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ANU students and their lecturer have combined electronic music with the bells of the National Carillon on Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin to create a unique musical experience.
The 14 students and School of Music lecturer Dr Thomas Laue mixed the Carillon bells with sounds from their own pre-recorded compositions that were processed through a computer to produce the "Electrillon" concert.
"It sounded like the Carillon was being accompanied by something else that doesn't usually occur in that space, on Lake Burley Griffin," Dr Laue said.
"There were other pieces where students composed an electronic sound track recording which I played back through the speakers. Some students recorded natural sounds like magpies singing and then I played with that sound track back through the speakers."
Some recordings split soundwaves upside down or played them back slowly.
Dr Laue said the end result was unlike a traditional music performance.
"You wouldn't hear that and think 'that's a violin or that's a saxophone or that's a flute'. It's not instrumental, it's actually soundscapes that they were building," he said.
The compositions were a part of the student course assessments. The project was a collaboration between ANU and the National Capital Authority.