Sebastian Adams

Complete works

All materials are freely available, except where I don't own the necessary permissions. Provided as is, please report bugs or mistakes. Feel free to get in touch with questions or to let me know you're interested in my work!

Stolen Music

(2022)   [10]

fixed-media multi-channel video, diffused stereo sound, printed text materials, audience members with kazoos, interactive website and live narration

Stolen Music was originally conceived for my final project as part of the IRCAM Cursus, but it is also an ongoing musical world-building project composed of websites, audio collages, acts of piracy etc.

The basic aim of the project is to explore two main ideas that matter to me:

Examining the boundaries of a "piece" of music: questioning the idea of the sole author and finding ways to subvert the linear, sectional timeline of a typical musical performance
Presenting an argument that all musical material should be fair game for all people to work with, regardless of who owns it under current copyright law.

This project owes a huge debt to Claudia Jane Scroccaro, the other teachers at IRCAM, and my colleagues from my course who let me mess with their music. Much more info is available on the dedicated website.

Thought Music

(2022)  

interactive web page (for use by anybody): text input converted into music and can be played back and saved to a database

Freed Sounds Instrument

(2022)  

audience with internet-connected mobile phones

Near and Exact Repetition (collab. with Jonathan Nangle)

(2019)  

installation for tape loops, tape players and modular synthesiser

Beethoven Freeze (Broken)

(2019)   [10]

installation for smashed violin with embedded fixed media electronics

Small adjustments that over the years forged a new landscape [collab. Joan Somers Donnelly]

(2019)   [120]

performance installation; viola/performer/electronics/vegetation/casette players/

Umbrella [collab. with Jools Gilson; early prototype]

(2019)  

installation for electronic umbrella and audio [presented at CARPA6, Helsinki, Aug 2019]

Beethoven Freeze

(2018)   [120]

installation for string instruments with transducers