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ABSTRACT
// ART _ UNCONVENTIONAL

"IN DUST,
REALISATION."

Processed Collaged Loops
on ¼” Tape

for the New Museum of 
Networked Art, Cologne. 

2024

At a Berlin flea-market in 2017, I bought some curious 1/4” tapes containing amateur recordings made shortly after WWII of various church bells.

 

Many of the bells are no longer existent and it is possible that these recordings represent the only audio record of these lost artefacts. Another, almost completely decayed tape-reel contained barely decipherable orchestral recordings of unknown original, likely recorded in the 1950s.

 

From these materials I created tape-loops and collaged the results into a sound narrative evocative of the emotions one feels when reminded of once celebrated customs and cultures all but lost to time, apathy and decay.  


Duration: 10'30"

"IN DUST, REALISATION" • Processed Collaged Loops for ¼” Tape
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"EMBRYOPHITE"

for Music Box

2022

Commission for Spring Moon Design, New York. 

Compositional reflection on the Embryophyte genus of moss for unique handmade music box.

Duration : Until Spring Runs Down

'Embryophyte' • For Music Box [2023] • Composed by Brian Ledwidge Flynn for Spring Moon Design
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"BRIAN MAKES MUSIC"

Live Composition, Studies & Concepts • WEB SERIES

2017–2018

Interactive Web-based series in which I explore various unconventional methods of composition. 

Commissioned by Magnetic State Records, Berlin. 

EP2 • Composing with Pure ' π (PI) ' Tones
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"AMNESIA"

STUDIES IN MINIMALISM FOR ENSEMBLE, ELECTRONICS & TAPE

2024

If you forgot all you knew, how would you know? 

Extended visual suite of soporific compositions for Ensmeble, Electronics & Processed Magnetic Tape that aims, through the slowly shifting non-sequitur environments & soundscapes presented, to alleviate the viewer of preconceived ideas, memories and perspectives, that they might for a moment view the world through a fresh lens and hear the world through cleansed ears.   

Composed, arranged and produced between 2020 and 2024 for magnetic state records. 

Film assembled by Paisley Grey from vintage public domain celluloid ephemera..

'AMNESIA' • STUDIES IN MINIMALISM FOR ENSEMBLE, ELECTRONICS & TAPE [2024] #minimalist
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80s T.V. Lostalgia

Collection of early electronic compositions and productions, inspired by the calming, nostalgic memories of watching CEEFAX late at night in the mid-1980s. 

Visuals salvaged from aging VHS Tape by Paisley Grey. 

CEEFAX • "Various Testcards" LP // Cassette Transfer
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"CEEFAX"

ANALOG MUSIC SUITE

2016

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"CASSETTE RECORDING
OF A BERLIN STORM"

Magnetic Storm on Magnetic Tape.

2016

Unaltered Cassette Recording of an Approaching Berlin Storm recorded from the balcony of my Richard Sorge Strasse Apratment.

 

Duration 27' 12"

Commission in collaboration with composer/producer Tom McCarthy for 2013 Berlin vernissage of artist Jill Tegan Doherty. 

 

Four incommensurable pre-recorded looping compositions of between 10-15 minutes duration emanate from different locations throughout the gallery resulting in a never-repeating shifting spatial ambience.

DURATION : Indeterminate / Incommensurable

"ROOMS"

Spatial Music for Vernissage of Artist Jill Teagan Doherty.
Collaboration with Composer/Producer Tom McCarthy

2013

'Nothing Was Put In Place to Stop The Growth' exhibition performance
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"TESLA // NOISE OPERA"

In Collaboration with Hammerschlaegen [BERLIN]

2013

Noise Opera collaboration with Berlin based Industrial Sound Band Hammerschlaegen [Kerta von Kubin & Bacchus Blake] on the life and inventions of Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futurist Nikola Tesla.

Staging : Hammerschaegen are positioned in the centre of a circle of twelve electric guitarsists, each wearing activated headlamps. There is a large Tesla coil at the rear of the stage. At points of crescendo instructed in the performance score, the coil is activated by a stagehand. 

 

All performers and audience members wear metal gauze suits to sheild them from the coils voltage arcs. 

DURATION : 15' 24"

TESLA • A NOISE OPERA // Hammerschlaegen [Kerta von Kubin & Bacchus Blake] & Brian Ledwidge Flynn
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"1 MEGABYTE
EQUALS
10 SECONDS"

3.5 HR LIVESTREAM CONCERT For Electronics
& Mixed Resources

For Magnetic State Studios

2023

ELECTRONICA // LIVE

Live 3.5hr suite of eclectic electronic music/textural compositions for various electronic devices, guitar,  4-trk tape &. sampler for broadcast as part of the Magnetic State Studios KonzertKast series. 

Themes, movements and pieces presented often return for reprise or reinterpretation throughout the set, giving the suite a sense of being part of a whole despite the extended duration. 

Visuals • Assembled by Magnetic State for Simulcast with Audio,

ONE MEGABYTE EQUALS TEN SECONDS • ALT ELECTRONIC MUSIC LIVE MIX
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"THE BEEKEEPER"

Piece A Day in 2017

2017-2018

365 Pieces in 1 Year.

Second isntallment of my ABARXAS 365 Project, for which I composed a piece for every day of 2009.

Again, with 'THE BEEKEEPER'  I composed and produced a short piece of music or soundwork for everyday of 2017.

 

These pieces are presented together [often combined] in the accompanying video, assembled from public domain footage by Paisley Grey.

THE BEEKEEPER • 365 COMPOSITIONS [2017]
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"NIGHT
GALLERY"

7.5 Hour Collection of  Composition Sketches

1995–2023

SKETCHES & JUVENALIA 

Unfiltered 7 hour 30 Minute collection of composition sketches and studies, many unfinished works and experiments created between 1995 & 2023. Collected for reference / posterity.

Video Slideshow / Gallery assembled by Paisley Grey

all rights reserved to original authors / estates / galleries. 

NIGHT GALLERY

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©2024 BRIAN LEDWIDGE FLYNN MUSIC & Collaborators / Associates

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