CV | Music by Charles Céleste HUTCHINS

Charles Céleste Hutchins / Composer

UK Tel: +44 (0) 790 825 5439

celesteh@gmail.com

b. 1976 in San Jose, California, USA

Statement

I primarily do computer music and installations, but also enjoy ensemble writing and tuba improvisation.

Press

“A . . . tension-building weapon to entice listeners through harshness and hypnosis” – Area Culture Guide, 1 August 2011
“Witty and concise” – Birmingham Live, 29 July 2011
“Worth submerging oneself in” – Disquiet, 7 May 2010
“satisfying manglings” – Hurd Audio, 17 April 2007
“takes the art of noise to a higher level . . . a great soundtrack to your life” – SFWeekly, 29 June 2005

Discography and Film

2019: The Last Christmas
2017: Christmawave
2016: Tuba on ijereja by Lauren Redhead.
2016: 12 Days of Crimbo
2015: One Track on No Room 2015, from Sound Collective
2015: Additional composition for The Public House, a film by Sarah Turner
2014: Two tracks in The Shape of Spaces Yet To Come in the December 2014, Vol. 24 of Leonardo Music Journal.
2014: Tenor voice on Walking Still by the Vocal Constructivists from Innova Records.
2013: One track on artists for laetitia schteinberg from Black Circle Records.
2009: Contributed to one track on Supercollider140
2006: One Track on Solo Modular Synthesizer Compilation from Experimental Musical Research
2005: Political Voices and Just.
2002: Virtual Memory, from Mp3.com.
2001: Faux Pas.
2001: Two tracks on Random Spheres of Influence, published by IBOL Records.
Unreleased, recorded in 2005: Tuba / Sax duo with Anthony Braxton.

Talks, Presentations, and Papers

October 2021 ‘Make America Grate Again‘ ARTECH 2021: 10th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts Article No.: 118, Pages 1–3
March 2021 ‘Breaking out of boxes: Building community in online events’ A Nourishing Network, Servus, Linz
August 2020 “Constructing Infinity” panel discussion about an online collaborative graphic
notation platform.
February 2018 ‘Trans and Noise’ at New Emergences #12, STEIM, Amsterdam
September 2016 ‘Temporality, Structure, Symbols and the Social: Graphic Notation as Process’ chapter in Music and/as Process, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
May 2016 ‘The Trouble with Twitter’ at the Art Meets Radical Openness festival in Linz, Austria
May 2016 ‘Please Touch: Sex Robot #1’ at the Sound Acts Festival in Athens, Greece
July 2015 ‘Live Patch / Live Code‘ at the Live Code Conference in Leeds.
July 2014 ‘Soundbeam: a Platform for Sonifying Web Tracking’ at NIME.
June 2014 ‘Temporality, Structure, Symbols and the Social: Graphic Notation as Process’ at Music and/as Process in Canterbury.
October 2013 Participated in concluding roundtable at the Notation Symposium at Goldsmiths in London.
May 2013 ‘The TuningLib Quark‘ at the SC2013 SuperCollider Symposium in Boulder, CO, USA.
April 2013 On a panel at the Notation in Musical Practice conference at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA.
April 2012 ‘Working on a mixed network with BiLETools’ with Shelly Knotts and Chris Tarren at the SC2012 SuperCollider Symposium in London, UK.
July 2011 ‘BiLE networking strategy and tools’ with Shelly Knotts at the Laptops Meet Musicians Festival in Venice, Italy.

Affiliations

2003 – present Board member of Other Minds in San Francisco, California
2009 – present Chair of the board of Fossbox in London, UK
2011 – present Member of the Vocal Constructivists in London, UK.
2014 – present Member of the Music and/as Process RMA Study Group.
2015 – present Member of Autonomous Tech Fetish arts organisation in London, UK.
2011 – 2015 Co-founding member of BiLE in Birmingham, UK
2011 – 2014 Project Coordinator for the Network Music Festival 2012-4.
2011 – 2013 Organiser of monthly London SuperCollider Users Group meetups.
2007 – 2011 Member of BEAST, Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre at the University of Birmingham, UK.
2006 – 2009 Member of the advisory board of Transonic Arts in New York

Education

PhD in Musical Composition, 2012, Thesis, ‘Portfolio of Compositions‘, University of Birmingham with Scott Wilson
Sonology Course, Spring 2007, Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands
CCMIX year long course in electronic music, Spring 2006
MA in Composition, Spring 2005, Wesleyan University with Ron Kuivila
BA in Electronic Music and Recording and also in Computer Science, Spring 2008, Mills College with Maggi Payne

New and Notable Performances

October 2021 Make America Grate Again installation presented at ARTECH 2021, Aveiro, Portugal
December 2019 Tenor in Three Sound Sculptures by Wojtek Blecharz in the Jazz and Experimental Music from Poland festival, London
September 2018 Wrote software for Chronica – live video cutting based on biofeedback, video content by Sophie Hoyle, presented at Jerwood Sapce, London
June 2018 Listen installation presented at Vocal Constructivists’s The Space of the Spirit concert at Lument Baptist Church, London
July 2017 Immrama live notation piece performed by toy piano, tenor and accordion at the Music and Philosophy conference, Kings College, London
May 2017 Set of algorithmically generated dubstep with live tuba wub at the Chemical Algorave in Newcastle
August 2016 Set of live coded dance music in the Algorave tent at the Electromagnetic Field festival, UK
June 2016 Chicken Fucker piece for ‘robot’ piano at the Slippery Chicken symposium at Goldsmiths College, London
May 2016 @BlockAllTwerps installation at Art Meets Radical Openness in Linz, Austria
April -May 2016 Please Touch: Sex Robot #1 installation at the Libre Graphics Meeting in London and also at the Sound Acts Festival in Athens, Greece
April 2016 Immrama live graphic notation piece performed by the Vocal Constructivists at Ideopreneurial Entrephonics II in Dublin, Ireland
November 2015 Please Touch installation of two ‘sex robots’ at Common House, Bethnal Green, London.
July 2015 Performed in The Great Learning by Cornelius Cardew at Union Chapel, London.
June 2015 #SC140 installation for playing SuperCollider tweets in real time on a Raspberry Pi, at the Klang Festival in Montpelier, France.
May 2015 Live synthesiser patching at St Laurence Church in Catford.
March 2015 Soundbeam with BiLE at Sex and Security at Furthfield Commons in London.
February 2015 Performed in The Scratch Orchestra’s Nature Study Notes at Cafe Oto in London, UK.
June 2014 Imramma live notation piece, performed by the Vocal Constructivists at the Music and/as Process Conference in Canterbury.
March 2014 #SC140 installation for playing SuperCollider tweets in real time at the SEAMUS conference at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA.
February 2014 Cloud Drawings at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.
May-June 2013 USA tour with piece Cloud Drawings, presented at the SuperCollider Symposium in Boulder and in San Francisco, Seattle and at the SubZero Festival in San Jose.
April 2013 Solo live synthesiser patching at the Live.Code.Festival in Karlsruhe, Germany
March 2012 Duo with live synthesiser patching and Will Conner on percussion at Boat-ting in London, UK.
January 2012 Piece The Death of Stockhausen, Act 2 performed by BiLE, the Birmingham Laptop Ensemble, at the Network Music Festival in Birmingham, UK.
July 2011: Piece Partially Percussive performed by BiLE at the Laptops Meet Musicians Festival in Venice, Italy.
April 2011: Piece in Ancient and Modern Concert at St Marys Collegiate Church in Warwick, UK.
April 2010: Solo set of analog modular synthesizer and live-sampling at Noise=Noise at Butchers Corner in London, UK.
May 2009: Piece in the BEAST Festival at the CBSO Centre in Birmingham, UK.
July 2008: Duo with Polly Moller and a homebrew lie detector at the Edgetone Festival in San Francisco, California, USA.
July 2008: Improvised duo with Polly Moller live on KFJC radio in Los Altos Hills, California, USA.
May 2008: Solo set of laptop and film at the Eclectic Tech Carnival at the Plantage Dok in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
February 2008: Improvised duo on laptop and analog synthesizer and Matt Davignon on pedals and electronic devices at the 1510 Performance Space in Oakland, California, USA.
January 2008: Improvised solo on laptop and analog synthesizer at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, California, USA
October 2007: Lock Up Your Children in the Birmingham Book Festival at the Ikon Eastside in Birmingham, UK
July 2007: Laptop set at the Eclectic Tech Carnival at Cafe Strom in Linz, Austria
May 2007: Improvised duo on laptop and zebu horn with Nick Fox-Gieg on laptop at Zentrale Randlage in Berlin, Germany
March 2007: Live set on United Colors of Noise radio show broadcast from The Hague, the Netherlands and streamed on the Internet
October 2006: Two pieces at the TAG Gallery in The Hague, the Netherlands
August 2006: Improvised quartet on tuba with Aram Shelton on reeds, Jen Baker on trombone and Damon Smith on double bass at the Temescal Cafe in Oakalnd, California, USA
August 2006: Improvised duo on synthesizer with David Jensenius on laptop at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California, USA
August 2006: Laptop set at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, California, USA
June 2006: Composition and improvisation duo on laptop with Solène Riot on recorder and cornetto, accompanying dance contact improvisation at 10 rue Bisson, Paris, France.
March 2006: Text sound poetry and electronic noise at La Barbare in Montreuil, France.
August 2005: Improvisation at Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, CA on tuba and laptop with Phillip Greenlief-reeds, Noah Phillips-guitar, and Damon Smith-double bass
June 2005: Set of Text Sound Poetry at the BRINK Series at the Hemlock Tavern in San Francisco, CA, USA
June 2005: Improvised duo at the Garden of Memory concert in Oakland, CA on laptop with Ellen Fullman on autoharp
October 2004: Coulter Shock played at Red Festival in Toronto