August 2024
Li Song -
Metronome and snare drum pieces
Li Song is a London-based musician and software engineer. who performs and composes improvised music using electronics and acoustic instruments.
He has worked extensively using the metronome as a performative and compositional tool, his performances focus on compositions using environment sounds, acoustic instruments, computer algorithms, and random sequences.
Selected audio works
Metronome 1 - Taken from ‘Voices from Green Pines’ - Released 2020‘
- I wanted to go outside and play it (the metronome) Where? Seems like it could only be there, under the overpass I've frequented many times’
Two snare drums, metronomes, drumsticks, masking tape,
bluetooth speaker, microphone
Recorded live at Hundred Years Gallery, London by
Graham Mackeachan on the 9th of October, 2021 - released May 14, 2022
Taken from - Two Laptops - Recorded in London on 10th August 2019
Part 1 recorded at Abney Park
Maeda Yasuyuki: laptop computer (portable bluetooth speakers)
Li Song: laptop computer (built-in speakers)
Taken from Computer Works 2013-2015, released November 7, 2023
For metronome, sine wave oscillators and live animated sliders on tablet
24 input sliders on a custom web page, each mapping to the volume and pitch of 12 sine wave oscillators. Using a conductive pad attached to the metronome's pendulum, it would sometimes 'touch' the web page when it hit the tablet, thus changing the oscillator. The sliders were then animated live during the performance, moving slowly and quickly, zooming in and out, rotating clockwise and counter-clockwise.
Interview
Links
Hundreds of Cups, Thousands of Cups , One More Cup
Bandcamp
Two Movements - Snare drum trio with Conol Blake and Regan Bowering