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Snowden (eyes in the sky) [2015]

from Lines of Flight by GreyWing Ensemble

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Sam Gillies
Snowden (eyes in the sky) [2015] for clarinet, electric guitar, harp and electronics.

Snowden (eyes in the sky) [2015] Like many people I struggled to understand the real-world implications of the revelations made by Edward Snowden during his initial leaks of the metadata collecting activities of the NSA. After all, surveillance of this kind has probably been happening for a while and, if so, my life has been no worse off than before such suspicions were confirmed. I could satisfy myself that I wasn’t giving anyone anything that I considered to be particularly valuable. It wasn’t until several months later, following a change of government and the continued recurrence of media news stories that continued to hark back to the original leaks made by Snowden, that it started to dawn on me the truly awesome significance of the data mining activities of the NSA in 2014.Monitoring the surrounding metadata of our online activities – the data about data – raises countless questions, and the ultimate effect such activities could have on the individual are difficult to ascertain. The temptation is to fall into conspiracy theory, but at the very least we can assume that such data is of some value to someone, somewhere, and we have no say or knowledge as to who that person is. Perhaps we are all too used to, and preoccupied with, uncertainty in our immediate lives following the GFC that we can happily ignore the more vague, poorly defined uncertainty that surrounds the harvesting of metadata by security organisations.

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from Lines of Flight, released March 25, 2018
Sam Gillies is a composer and sound artist with an interest in the function of noise as both a musical and communicative code in music and art. His work treads the line between the musically beautiful and ugly, embracing live performance, multimedia and installation art forms to create alternating sound worlds of extreme fragility and overwhelming density. Sam’s music has been programmed at both national and international conferences and festivals, including the Test Tone Series at Superdeluxe, Tokyo and the International Computer Music Conference. Sam was recently awarded the Liz Rhodes Scholarship in Musical Multimedia from the University of Huddersfield, where he is studying under the supervision of Dr Julio d’Escriván and Prof Monty Adkins. [www.samgillies.com]

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GreyWing Ensemble Perth, Australia

GreyWing is an Australian new music group exploring and creating repertoire for harp (Catherine Ashley), electric guitar (Jameson Feakes) and winds (Kirsten Smith and Lindsay Vickery) and electronics. Important thematic strands in the group’s exploration have included environmental music, political commentary, text, generative works, improvisation and noise. ... more

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