Ambrose Field
Ambrose Field is a reader and senior lecturer in music at the University of York. He also composes ethereal electronic music that he has performed around the world.[1][2]
In 2006 he assembled the first electronic orchestra comprising 50 musicians using laptops, styled the "Worldscape Laptop Orchestra".[3]
He has also instantly remixed bagpipe music sent from Scotland to York by broadband.[4]
Works
- Aquaduct Zero
- Geosphere
- Grey Sky Traffic
- Till
- Expanse Hotel (first performed at the ICMC in China, 1999)
- One Hell of a place to lose a cow
- UK weather
- Storm![5] (on Sargasso Records)
- Being Dufay, 2009 (choral works by medieval composer Guillaume Dufay set to electronic music).[6]
Prizes
- Prix Ars Electronica honourable mentions; 1997,1998 and 2006
- Electroacoustic tape music without instrument, 2003 Bourges Competition.
- Laureate, 30e Concours International de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustique (2004)
Samples online
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