https://www.jackmcneill.co.uk/live daily 0.75 2023-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1656826246809-RXETLYJNYJW41RY5B9QY/MLJ-Openair-021_www.klapper.cz.jpg Live https://www.jackmcneill.co.uk/blog daily 0.75 2022-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1656916363860-TURVGCEVC8FHDB3SAAFN/JACK+BASS.JPG Blog https://www.jackmcneill.co.uk/blog/flight monthly 0.5 2022-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1645986393950-VJKD0UJJXEFHMCB3WB83/JACK_AERIAL20211011_0001.jpg Blog - Flight - the end of a residency, the start of a new story In my time as Brewery Arts Musician in Residence, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the opportunities to lay down early groundwork for the Future Creatives scheme and meeting some of the emerging musical voices in Cumbria. I’ve had fun workshopping with some young local makers, and have used the space to write, record, film and learn new skills from my own mentors. My solo project is slowly unfurling and I’ve enjoyed performing at re-opening events and one of the areas most exciting new projects, Aerial. A lot has also had to be done behind the scenes. Venues around the country have reeled and staggered back to life after the depths of the pandemic gutted them. I’ve been lucky enough to be supported during that time, to work away in the belly of Kendal’s arts centre, making a new project called Flight with my ensemble Propellor, and stretching my wings in some new creative directions. It’s exciting finally to spread those wings, to be sharing the premiere of my newest work here in my hometown Kendal, and to have grown so many wonderful new creative relationships along the way. I look forward to working with the Future Creatives at Brewery Arts, and to bringing Propellor to Kendal for our premiere of Flight on October 1st. It’s the start of a journey towards forming a production company, as associate artists of BA, that can be an engine of inclusive, skilled collaborators for the north and its map of makers. (photo: Juliet Klottrup for Aerial) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/948312c8-24cc-40f0-90aa-353e11170153/Propellor-performance-images-43.jpg Blog - Flight - what is flight? Flight is a project that exists in three formats. It’s an 8-part podcast series tracing the connections between music, birds, humans and the science in between. This is a collaboration with one of the UK’s leading authors on nature Mark Cocker, electronic pioneer Leafcutter John, and a host of incredible writers, artists and musicians - imagine a 12-piece band underscoring an episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage talking with musicians, writers and ecologist and you’ll be close… The first live version of the project came into being as part of the Reimagining Landscape Conference (Future Places Centre, Lancaster University) in partnership with Lancaster Arts. It’s called Flight // In Conversation and is a kind of live version of the podcast, where interviewees engage with the audience in real-time… Myself, Leafcutter John (live electronics), Robin Beatty (guitars) and Delia Stevens (percussion) from Propellor, were joined “in conversation” by nature writer Mark Cocker, and sound artist/soundscape ecologist, Linda O Keeffe. It was a magic evening with a wonderfully inquisitive audience, and the following day was full of talks at the conference, sharing ideas about how art and science can be powerful companions for change and communication. Plans are now afoot to action some of the ideas we discussed, and I’ll be back talking with Lancaster Arts about what Propellor and myself can bring to the table very soon. Finally, Flight is a live show with Propellor - a 12-piece ensemble of soaring strings, ambient guitar, double percussion and otherworldly winds. You can expect music that tells the stories of astounding bird migrations, how we listen and why it matters, electronic collaborations with artist Leafcutter John, live reactive visuals and spoken word alongside powerful contemporary dance, stunning paper lanterns and recycled instrument bird frames! Come and see it for yourself in Kendal on October 1st… (photo: Mark Battista) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1662618558908-5O0ZJLTQQ7177XQV99TO/PHOTO-2022-09-02-13-30-06.jpg Blog - Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1662618478395-D7PRODY4C8A24LHSUX1O/81e983fc-7a06-4c1b-b292-a4726cf06f7f.JPG Blog - Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1662618494593-HTINAHK6GN4EIN5TQWKQ/IMG_7320.JPG Blog - Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1662618478006-Q1Q9OG7AE9VF3UOPNEZB/0a65e904-9e7b-4816-a8cf-6cbaba726a28.JPG Blog - Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1662618494055-NK6BLFTFFL6FCYF3A0GD/IMG_7279.JPG Blog - Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1662618508195-0TG9J3XX60KS9I450U9X/IMG_7334.JPG Blog - Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1662618557103-JV7EE5I04MWPNX90ZV1J/PHOTO-2022-09-02-13-30-01.jpg Blog - Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1662618507685-XGOSKVFF4XSV8R05GO5C/IMG_7336.JPG Blog - Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/d552b4c2-f395-431d-b545-48f058fe693e/IMG_7345.JPG Blog - Flight - audiovisibility: the deaf perspective An exciting part of working on the live version of Flight is developing the visual elements of the project. Ruth Montgomery, director of the charity Audiovisibility for deaf musicians, is consulting on how Propellor can integrate ideas about making sound visual with Flight, so as to be more accessible to a deaf audience. I contacted Ruth as an interviewee for the original podcast series, and getting to know her a little while discovering a world of accessible music making for those who can’t hear has been a very rich experience. Ruth’s passion for music and changing awareness is infectious, it’s great to be working with her in this way. We’re working on a hand-drawn zine (my own sketches drawn from composing the music) that acts as a visual score for the sounds and ensemble you’ll experience in the performance. The way the text, moves through the visuals is also being thought about very carefully, as well as the colour palette we use. Flight is about listening differently, but talking about sound can be challenging for all of us. So much of what Ruth has contributed to the project so far isn’t about being deaf at all, it’s about how we pay attention to one another. My hope is that anyone will experience the ways we’ve added to Flight as an enhancement of their connection to it, and that the care we take will quietly signal to those who are deaf, that we’re listening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/3957cfd0-2e35-4ed2-9e4a-85236b2c6d4f/Jenny+Reeves%2C+Katie+Duxbury%2C+photo+by+Rebecca+Richards.jpeg Blog - Flight - Movement I’ve always loved working with dancers. One of my first touring experiences was with a Berlin-based dance company, playing re-imagined Baroque recorder music! The way the dancers worked in rehearsal together and before performances completely got under my skin. There can be an electric focus to the way physical performers prepare, but as a musician a lot of this happens below the surface. And so to see the care that dancers take to warm up and find a focus was very helpful, and I try to apply it in my own discipline all the time. Since that early work I’ve continued to seek out new collaborations with dance, still fascinated by the stories contained within a human frame. Jenny Reeves (About Time Dance Company) and her long time collaborator the costume maker Katie Duxbury, are such wonderful people to make with. Our shared interests in the environment, birds and music have been coming together very organically, and we’ve been working to create the two dance sections for Flight. I was introduced to Jenny nearly two years ago now by the lovely folks at Deco Publique, Jenny had been working on landscape ecology and wading birds, and after a cuppa, lots of laughs and ideas, it was clear that there was something brewing… Jenny grew up in Lancashire, and having always danced, pursued her professional training at The London Contemporary Dance School and Trinity Laban Conservatoire, specialising in contemporary dance performance. She has worked in a range of dance, street theatre and opera companies worldwide as a performer. In the last 6 years, Jenny has developed her own Company, creating her own choreographic work to share often forgotten stories of local women, through powerful performance and participatory projects. (photo: Rebecca Richards) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/46eaf383-84a2-4afd-b0d9-96c16467f8f3/Shipwrecked+Luke+Perkin.jpeg Blog - Flight - Material Katie Duxbury (Duxbury Designs) is a Morecambe based costume designer who takes inspiration from the colours and textures of the natural world. She has a love for recycling materials, both for the creativity this challenge inspires, but also for the sake of lessening the environmental impact of her work. Katie and Jenny have worked together for a long time on different dance projects, and she has produced two stunning costumes from recycled materials for Flight. The first is a Rook spirit - wild, wise and ragged, the dance forming a gathering to roost while a shronky bass clarinet grunge cuts loose with percussion, trombone and double bass… This costume is also being used as a field recording in the performance, we’ll be taking recordings of Jenny activating the sounds within it and transforming them into a new audio environment with the help of Leafcutter John. The second costume is a Swift, made from recycled tent material that hangs in the air and reveals new forms in the light. Jenny is dancing here to the sound of strings in the stratosphere and brass clouds that transform around her. The recycled material on the ground then becomes a sound map, seen from above. It’s been a privilege to play around ideas with Katie and Jenny in the rehearsal room, allowing each others ways of working to gently influence the other. I’ll be moving around with my clarinets, ducking out of the way of a dancing tailwind, or recording Jenny’s shifts while she explores the way the material moves with the sound, and Katie will be sketching new ideas for her next stitches! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/7d6d4ea8-1d0a-4080-a85f-9f7369cafc2f/Bethan+Maddocks.jpeg Blog - Flight - Paper Bethan Maddocks is a wonderful visual artist making a set of beautiful paper lanterns for Flight. They will contain the three birds that we focus on in the project for their particular qualities, environments and stories - the Bar-tailed Godwit, Willow warbler and Swift, lighting up the dark corners of the theatre and transforming our sense of that shared space. Bethan is an artist who works with archives, communities and organisations to collect stories and make socially engaged, site-specific artwork. Often working with light, paper, fabric and found objects she creates interactive, tactile sculpture and installations. Narratives gathered through conversation and collaborative making are constructed into playful, transformative artwork. We’d chatted a lot on the phone but meeting in person was when those good gut feelings clicked. Bethan, like Jenny, works a lot with text as jumping off points, and so I’ve been able to share the paragraphs of my own writing from the series as a way into the emotional content of the piece. Watching Bethan play with paper in the dark theatre was a lot like the early process of playing with my clarinet lines, placing them against and inside other sounds to see how opaque or luminous they might be. The lanterns are a nod to the bells that appear in Mark Cocker’s descriptions of Godwits arriving in New Zealand and David Hendy’s description of how we have decoded sounds through history. These paper bells don’t ring, but hopefully they’ll resonate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/c7926bea-43a2-49f3-83aa-74d8c2b018b3/Ted+Carefoot.jpeg Blog - Flight - Wood Local craftsman Ted Carefoot is creating four stunning 2m bird frames from steam-bent ash (locally and sustainably sourced), which the two percussionists in Propellor will play during the performance. The frames will contain recycled materials, close-mic’d and intricately hung, a sort of visual field recording and a reference to the shocking harm we have seen inflicted on these animals in the wild by our own waste. Ted actually started out making film and theatre sets after his art degree, so when I heard we had a craftsmen with theatrical tendencies in our midst I got in touch! The recycled element of the frames will be created and designed by local young musicians in a workshop with the musicians before the performance. We’ll be learning about soundscape ecology and making lots of fun music at the same time. These frames will then be available for anyone to play in the Brewery Arts foyer for a week or so after the performance, before the participants are invited to help me recycle the materials again! Working from a wood yard in the South Lakes, Ted has always been influenced by tradition and nature which continue to inspire his designs and craftsmanship. His impressive attention to detail and knowledge of nature is all feeding into the project. His dry humour has also been helpful when it comes to reigning in some of my more wayward stage ideas… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1662618508195-0TG9J3XX60KS9I450U9X/IMG_7334.JPG Blog - Flight - Light Propellor are also thrilled to be collaborating with visual design company Vent to produce the projection material for Flight. With a long track record working with musicians and dance (Fat Boy Slim, Tom Dale Dance Company and Full Tilt Aerial to name a few) they’ve got a really professional eye on the way we tell the Flight story with visuals. Director Barret Hodgson has filmed in the Brewery Arts theatre with myself and Jenny Reeves to capture a range of movement and texture that will be woven into the visual language of Flight. With the help of the Brewery tech team we were able to experiment in situ with different lighting states and moods, going with the energy shifts in the music and melodic narratives, to create a look and feel for the live show. Because a lot of the music was written with images early on, it’s been fun to talk about the way sound can communicate in different forms. The projections in Flight will also feature animated text, projection mapped birds and a live spectogram (sound picture) of the music you’ll hear Propellor playing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/87146abd-83cb-4c5f-87b9-7186be9e97e8/lottery_Logo_Black+RGB.jpeg Blog - Flight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.jackmcneill.co.uk/blog/brewery-arts-residency-august-september-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004903456-7IOVFXS4QT9DSG12FLTW/Soundscape+Ecology+Full+Score.jpg Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 - Make it stand out This is the score for episode 4 of Propellor’s podcast series, Flight. It’s called Soundscape Ecology and in the episode Dr. Linda O Keeffe (a sound artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland and head of the School of Art at Edinburgh College of Art) explains how this area of science listens to the health of the planet. The music treats Propellor like a field recording with everyone improvising using this graphic score, but without hearing the other players parts until it’s all put together in production. Everything is recorded reeeeaaaally quietly because when we listen to a field recording we are most often listening to an amplification of the soundscape. I wanted to try and recreate that sense of wonder you can experience when a landscape is made sonic; when you realise that you’re hearing wonderfully small details incredibly clearly and up close in a sound picture, but here we’re using the live band. So it’s recorded quietly but will be played back at a much more comfortable volume and allow the listener to go inside the sounds they wouldn’t normally be close enough to hear from the instruments… The partner episode for this score is called Melody and is a remix of the same recording by Leafcutter John, taking these improvised sounds and making new melodies from them! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004570106-WFRUBWHAKAFS9J4BD5RL/C0017T01.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004616563-3DBWLJXJJ5IBEKHQAVGH/DSC03815.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004625206-H0JF6WO9N5I6LLJDWL5T/DSC03817.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004662745-8OGQ73SQSPLHY3Q0C3B6/DSC03824.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004660660-QQP5O3W6E9LCAELN070I/DSC03933.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004704988-PSIKLB6VPWLU9F9DFSO4/DSC03946.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004705582-MF8MTK0MFEWWATBHX90L/DSC03959.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004751223-TLGZ9YK2XSYKMBZ5HOSW/DSC03968.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633004753566-5HLHHOZALZRHQSQ8HMAO/DSC03969.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633003054737-2JQ1CVDDDOAEFACPS1FI/Vicky+Clarke+at+BA.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633003312391-X52U8RNW3IPQ3F6NZRUC/Ableton+BA.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633003059531-IU45HFVKF2IRY2LYGLXE/Vicky+Clarke+in+Manchester.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633003370744-G8APPP0DSD63LNRD3B94/Jack+and+Vicky+at+BA.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633022753263-PGTJR15PADXG56G71IW8/Anna+Etherington+at+BA.JPG Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 - Improvising with Anna Etherington A producer and solo artist, Anna has recently joined the Brewery team of tutors and we’re going to be collaborating on a fresh course together. We thought it would be a great way to get to know each other a little better if we had a play and improvised for a couple hours in the Brewery’s studio. Anna is a lot of fun to work with and we can’t wait to share the course we’re preparing with you. We’ll also both be part of the Future Creatives events that are coming up where 18 - 30 year olds are invited to come along and hear from industry professionals ahead of building a community and network of creatives based out of Brewery Arts. The first of these free sessions is coming up in October, keep an eye on the Brewery’s website and socials for more news about the (very) exciting guest artists and ambassadors… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1633006360128-7RDKUSW4VEVD4U533RTB/Jack+at+BA+opening+night.png Blog - Brewery Arts Residency: August - September 2021 - Make it stand out Photo credit: Stuart Walker https://www.jackmcneill.co.uk/blog/musician-in-residence-at-the-brewery-arts-centre monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1627917988690-QAKDKRVN9C27OA94JN7K/JackMcNeill.JPG Blog - Musician in Residence at Brewery Arts - musician making here It's been quite a year... Now is the time for new music Now is the time for new ideas Now is the time for collaboration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1627916983488-MH1USSPM6Q0KVCYPPEZJ/Rec+in+the+Brewery.JPG Blog - Musician in Residence at Brewery Arts - R&D FOR NEW PROJECTS… I’ve had a lot of fun discussing plans for new projects with the Brewery’s passionate Artistic Director Miriam Randall. One of the first things Miriam said to me was that as part of her vision for Brewery Arts, she feels it’s imperative to be a hub where new things get made. So as well as bringing some existing connections to my residency (including a mini pop-up concert series), I’m buzzing about making brand new work here in my hometown Kendal! Over the next few months I’m going to be undertaking the R&D for a solo show with live processing and playable staging! As well as Propellor’s next live project, Flight. I’ll be sharing my progress on here, in open sessions with anyone who wants to come along, and online thanks to the Brewery’s new live stream facilities… I’ll be reaching out to collaborate with other local makers alongside the fantastic in-house Brewery Arts team as things develop, and I can’t wait to share it all with you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1627920013037-RKVYCHU3K3YHEOG2S8OC/Arts+Unleashed+sketch.JPG Blog - Musician in Residence at Brewery Arts - ARTS UNLEASHED - CREATIVE SUMMER CAMP Next week I’ll be joining the Brewery Arts team of tutors and a group of freelance artists to make lots of music with the Arts Unleashed participants! We’ll be exploring how music can be a powerful binding force with other art forms and will be letting our creative spirits run wild. I’m currently creating two short bits of music to underscore some animations (they both started life like this picture on the right), that the participants will be dreaming up… And I’ve been having a think about all the different ways we’ll be able to improvise, compose, make instruments, play with found sounds, and arrange our own music on the camp. I can’t wait to get stuck in! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1627920602781-C2JV8QK80CD5PSPUGRRB/Jack+McNeill+-+photo+credit+-+Elly+lucas.jpg Blog - Musician in Residence at Brewery Arts - FUTURE CREATIVES at Brewery Arts Centre Alongside composer and multi instrumentalist Anna Louisa Etherington, I’ll be collaborating on the creation of a new workshop series for participants aged 18-30. This pilot interdisciplinary series will run at the Brewery from September to November this year and looks to be shaping up to include all kinds of creative writing and improvisation techniques, live processing, field recording, composing, beats making, arranging and devising. Been wondering where to take your music next or want to learn from a team of active makers? Keep an eye on Brewery Arts communications for news of how to sign up and get involved… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1627915381476-LJEP842RHMAEDXB2JUJP/A8E413EB-C985-4950-9446-4F2A8A81DF5B.JPG Blog - Musician in Residence at Brewery Arts - Recording I was super excited to have the opportunity to bring members of my ensemble Propellor to Kendal and start working on our next project in the Brewery’s theatre space. We recorded some material for our new podcast series called Flight which we’re creating alongside one of the UK's leading writers on birds, Mark Cocker, and electronic musical pioneer/instrument builder Leafcutter John. The huge theatre space allowed our percussionists Stu Brown and Delia Stevens to get creative with big sounds and LOTS of drums. A special mention for the Westmorland Youth Orchestra who let us use their orchestral bass drum for the session - thanks folks! Flight will explore the interconnected worlds of birds, soundscape ecology and music, tracing lines between the birds of our imaginations and the science of our times. The series also lays the groundwork for a touring installation, which we’ll be putting together at Brewery Arts, and exciting developments in the way Propellor make new work and collaborate in the future. I’ll share some of the results of these recordings on here next month… While I’m in residence at the Brewery I’ll also be making the most of the space to record a handful of other things including premiere recordings of works by Alex Groves, Kate Halsall and David Matthews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1627915930803-10AWJW71RTCENF1DRYEG/4E5A69BE-7E30-445B-B397-885E38C45FA7.JPG Blog - Musician in Residence at Brewery Arts - GIGS are back! July also saw the return of some performances, which meant that Propellor could see out our ACE tour of Loom at Cheltenham Music Festival. Some of you may have seen us perform this in Kendal at the last Lakes Alive festival where we collaborated with local printmaker Caro Stow and poets Hannah Hodgson, Polly Atkin and Katie Hale. I’m really excited that Propellor will be producing our next project at Brewery Arts. We can’t wait to explore the various performance spaces, projection mapping and surround sound installation possibilities in these spaces to bring Flight to life! I’ll also be doing some small duo performances in August, the first is this Friday 6th in Newcastle’s ‘secret library’ The Lit & Phil with the wonderful pianist, composer and curator Kate Halsall. Following that I’ll be popping up in a Kendal space with some more of my musical friends in the coming weeks, keep an eye out around Elephant Yard for more news ;) Hope to see you around the Brewery very soon. Jack https://www.jackmcneill.co.uk/blog/a-hopeful-rewilding-rewindwild monthly 0.5 2020-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1600353915366-WVE0W02YHIA96M2IAYDA/IMG_6970.JPG Blog - A hopeful rewilding As a lockdown musician I stopped making music entirely at first, feeling demotivated and uninspired. The newly unfolding online musical environment offered little personal comfort and so I lost myself in supporting family, reading, looking and listening while the landscape around me unfurled from its own, centuries-old human lockdown… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1600350420102-8NIUVB76EBVQUQ1BOW8X/IMG_7486.JPG Blog - A hopeful rewilding - Sounds I’ve used field recordings from the woods and fields which I’ve spent these past strange months listening to, piecing together an aural picture of my surroundings. I’ve visited the edges of the Lake District National Park at different times of the day and night to see what sounds were there and changing over time, as well as recording areas of higher population noise and some of the most popular tourist spots during lockdown easing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1600430426957-37J2USK6Q5K88IQWMKVZ/1108d10c-4802-4652-a15d-e77f21d42ddc.jpg Blog - A hopeful rewilding - Owls Loud has always been synonymous with powerful, humans have been obsessed with this idea although today are perhaps less aware of the damage our ‘silent’ presence can do. For parts of Rewindwild I also used a magnetic coil pickup to record some of the everyday sounds that we don’t hear, I recorded mobile phones and the sound of YouTube (while watching some Bernie Kraus Ted talks…) to get the electric fizz and crackle you hear. Just as much of the vocalising animal sounds in the wild are beyond the limits of our hearing, so is the constant bustle of this invisible anthropophony, our technology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1600351414389-INKBHI1CF89JUKEHRNPV/IMG_8041.jpg Blog - A hopeful rewilding - Driving On a hot sunny weekend in the Lake District I followed a route that would be familiar to a lot of tourists, from the motorway junction to Tarn Hows, a Victorian hotspot that has lost none of its popularity. I drove this route in reverse on a Saturday as the area was beginning to fill up with visitors again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1600350105399-RXY9VUYHHLSO35VGAUVU/IMG_5794.JPG Blog - A hopeful rewilding - Durations Rewindwild’s length and structure felt like a mystery until quite late in the day, the gathering of sonic artefacts was changing what I imagined the shape of the piece would be almost daily. Then one morning I took my microphones out for a walk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1600348339497-29R82FEMHBYT4ED4MO4Y/IMG_7543.jpg Blog - A hopeful rewilding - Clarinets In addition to this, contact mics all over the bass clarinet have been used to create complex, a-rhythmic woodland floors and leafy canopies, teeming with life and hidden patterns. Half-pitched wind sounds, songs and articulations using just the top half of the instrument have also been constructed into playful gusts, theatres of air and left as untamed voices. This imaginary clarinet ‘biophony’ and ‘geophony’ is combined with melodic material (clarinet, bass clarinet and voice) written during the height of the nationwide lockdown which weave a lyric through the piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1600347649709-36VICE0BPJVEUVNM41QW/JackMcNeill.JPG Blog - A hopeful rewilding - Words The last thing I added to Rewindwild was my own voice (apart from some humming while I played the clarinet melody at the end). 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I went outside and filled my lungs with the place, feeling my whole body relax and my head instantly clearer - you couldn’t see that far, the late arrival had meant I’d slept longer than usual and by now the mist had obscured much of the middle distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1575836731986-BE335R5N5SOXY43NW4UH/0cafe705-2aed-4350-886d-7142b4549701.JPG Blog - Writing music by the Sound of Jura - Cretshengan Bay A burial chamber watched over by fishing boats and fishing birds, huge oystercatchers, gulls, terns, shags and kittiwakes. We sat by the sea for a while and then tramped back as the rain started picking up to make a hearty lunch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1575836978078-LD3FRPSSDBI3VV9TOI6J/IMG_4580.JPG Blog - Writing music by the Sound of Jura - ABLETON I think that as musicians with any imagination on our instruments, we are missing out by not engaging with the increasingly intelligent, nuanced and incredibly powerful sonic tools available, and that if you can set your own parameters based on musical necessity rather than technical limitations the possibilities right now are very exciting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1575836847695-NT92WPMC9ZS2D15IWCLF/bfc96d7b-92a7-49bc-956b-20ad3c9e40ff.JPG Blog - Writing music by the Sound of Jura - Loch Eun Soph wanted a swim and it did look inviting, but it was baltic-cold, the night was drawing in and Jaz was shivering so we walked back over the peaty tussocks to the path and came down the hill, our eyes had adjusted and we didn’t need the torches we’d brought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1575837236200-TYIL1OPX3295RA05USM4/14eb1132-4192-457b-b0e0-21037a8ca0f4.JPG Blog - Writing music by the Sound of Jura - nature of the project This suddenly gave me a sense of freedom. I realised that what I’d come to do was develop as a musician, to write new music, learn new skills and examine the way I was working so that I could decide which tools were useful and interesting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1575837126081-FDKWHBVQ4VHSBQ0QTZJC/IMG_4569.JPG Blog - Writing music by the Sound of Jura - To KIlberry point This traverse went on for some time before a track up on the left took us to the top of the little cliff. A herd of cows on the shore below us now at Kilberry Point and an ancient path into a box of woodland concealing a walled garden, the domed and turreted Kilberry Castle and huge numbers of Victorian rhododendrons. An elderly couple seemed to be managing the estate and left us to our wandering. We saw the ancient Kilberry Stones with illustrations from a long time ago, the whole place felt strangely forgotten about. 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intersecting traditions and sound worlds… I play clarinet and bass clarinet, write music and make things that happen between the worlds of music, theatre and dance. With a background rooted in contemporary classical performance practice and an interest in folk and ancient resonances, the work I make moves between the seams that tie these elements together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1559556271821-7U3RO7G5ID9MFJ4HHSXW/Birmingham11.JPG Home - What I do… I’m involved in a wide variety of performance projects, chamber, orchestral and as a solo clarinet player. A lot of my work combines audio visual elements, live processing, spoken word, dance and theatre. Sometimes these projects are large scale tours and sometimes they’re much smaller, intimate events - one-off happenings invented by friends or collaborations coming into being on the hoof. I have been supported by the Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants, PRS Open Fund, Transmission Fund (Help Musicians UK), Sound and Music (Seed Award), IVORS, Brighter Sound, Worshipful Company of Musicians and Countess of Munster. I also teach and run various chamber music and creative courses, because I feel that one of the best ways to make new discoveries is to have to try and bring about the same curiosity in others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1559736140091-WG5DKDSDOFI0MCZHAKHD/Craig+Roberts1.jpg Home - Writing music… Through my work as a clarinettist, I’ve had the extraordinary pleasure to perform and collaborate on hundreds of new works, and to learn from a variety of inspiring mentors. I’ve also been an artist in residence at Snape Maltings Open Space, Sage Gateshead Summer Studios and Brewery Arts in Kendal. I used this residency time to develop the ensemble Propellor alongside some of my favourite musicians. The Snape residency led to writing our first hour long touring work Loom along with five miniatures for different combinations within the group, and in turn, gave me the confidence to start a series of new writing projects. At Brewery Arts, I worked on Propellor’s second project Flight, which explores the connections between music, birds and soundscape ecology. https://www.jackmcneill.co.uk/recordings daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1656918024605-0FDKFFFH0Q92NRXGIRE2/Jack.jpg Recordings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1559736878951-31VXX9U35DVHBYJLXW7D/Craig+Roberts3.jpg Recordings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1600935710132-TR3L05K7UZFFYDBXSUYR/a3402602654_16.jpg Recordings Original soundtrack for the game Creaks. amanita-design.net/games/creaks.html Created over 5 years, the music in the game is generative, randomised, and infinite. This OST takes just 21 of the 100+ pieces in the game, and turns them into traditional 'fixed' versions of the tracks. The soundtrack reflects Amanita's marriage of beautiful hand-drawn artwork with technology, as well as the game's progression through time - a mix of genres including primitive hand-made instruments, an ambient baroque world with bells and choirs and organs, a Classical world filled with piano and strings, an electronic world pulsing with analog synths, and a futuristic noir underworld with moody bass clarinet.. released July 23, 2020 Written, recorded, mixed and produced by Joe Acheson. Arrangements and programming by Joe Acheson. 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The Strad on the Gildas Quartet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1559643582750-PV172EI3WRICRG8XGRDR/Drawlight1.jpg Projects - “Incorporating found sounds, whole-group interplay and spontaneity DRAWLIGHT cast improvisation within the timbres of traditional music.” Aaron Diaz (trumpet player, improviser, electronic experimenter and composer) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1559734052046-HFEFEQ3BGMMPIUQBRRMY/IMG_1820.jpg Projects - Scintilla Composer Liz Johnson and Digital Artist James Dooley Inspired by David Hart’s extended poem Crag Inspector this new theatrical work for clarinettist/actor, live electronics, percussionist and dancer (Dane Hurst) is currently in development through Sound and Music’s New Voices programme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1559730694453-GMTJJSEE42B9ICDIAFEP/RedDressPromo1-e1553183185323-2000x1125.jpg Projects - Rowan Rheingans The Lines We Draw Together A companion to Rowan’s acclaimed one-woman show Dispatches on The Red Dress, her debut solo album features cathartic collaborations with indy, jazz, classical and electronic musicians, including bassist Michele Stoddart (The Magic Numbers) and clarinettist Jack McNeill (Propellor). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1559504935254-9HVJGEQCFOTP0YIPQM53/Jack+McNeill+%28credit%3A+Ian+West+at+Sage+Gateshead%29 Projects - Solo/Duo/Trio After developing a solo show for two special concerts in the London series run by composer Alex Groves, SOLO. Jack has been devising sets for alternative late night venues, involving live processing, visuals and original composition alongside reworkings of the contemporary, classical and early music repertoire. Initially a solo project idea, it quickly developed and Jack has started working with long time collaborator Kay Stephen (Viola/Violin) and Stuart Brown (Percussion) whom he met being part of the Sound and Music New Voices project with Liz Johnson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cf424dac775120001d453a3/1559643929133-57S2M1F3J5HMHL7PSG5K/Propellor+%28817%29ii.jpg Projects - Kay Stephen - viola/violin Born in Aberdeen, Kay divides her time primarily as violist with the Gildas Quartet, violinist and violist with the Jacquin Trio. As a member of these ensembles she has been a recipient of numerous awards including the Royal Overseas League Chamber Music Prize and the Audience Engagement Prize at the Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition, Graz. 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