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Chromatic Fields are compositions for piano that make use of

the entire keyboard. Explorations of the expressive range and

depth of the instrument taking a unique view of the

instrument's sonic potential.

Chromatic Fields is the fruit of a world of relationships. The

relationships between the sound of a piano, the space of a

blank page, silence and emptiness, color and sound.

The chromatic sound fields of Jamie Crofts, the result of a

profound exploration of the relationship between composer

and performer, between written score and listener,

correspond with the visual works of Duncan Bullen. Each

translates to the other.

Bullen's work is naturally essential and absolute. His

expressive field, alien to the pictorial description, even to

the abstract one, is expressed in the primordial materiality of

the purest gesture and color.

Here, the element that unites sound and vision in this work is

precisely that of attention. An attention that also requires a

deep participation of its audience, both viewer and listener,

and that invites us to explore this world of relationships by

prompting unique emotions.

(Please note: due to the limited edition the audio and video

supports are CD-R and DVD-R, singularly printed and checked)

Jamie Crofts was born in 1961, Nottingham, England.

He works within the English Experimental tradition, combining

systems and processes with a distinctive intuitive voice. With

an interest in Satie's Furniture(furnishing) Music, Jamie

developed a music for static exhibitions with a focus on

design: Ikon Corporation, London. Studio Alchimia, Milan. V&A

Museum, London (The Cutting Edge, 1998). He has a particular

interest in speech as music, writing six spoken word operas

for solo performer. Jamie founded SOUNDkiosk editions with

Robert Orledge publishing first editions of work by Satie and

Debussy. Much of Jamie's work is piano based but with an

equal interest in hand held electronics. An interest in

psychogeography and liminality led to the extensive

Waterways of Lincoln project (2012-present) and the

multimedia project, The Denizen.

Duncan Bullen is an artist and academic with a primary

interest in process-orientated drawing. He studied Fine Art at

Leeds Polytechnic in the mid-1980s, before completing his MA

in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 1991. He was a

recipient of a Rome Scholarship, spending 1991-92 at the

British School at Rome. After this, he undertook a series of

residencies at the Eremo di Santa Caterina, a former

hermitage on the Italian island of Elba. He has had several solo

exhibitions and has participated in many internationally

recognised shows in the United Kingdom, United States, Latin

America, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. His writing includes

Drawing Colour: Between the Line and the Field, in Mobility of

the Line. Art, Architecture and Design edited by Dr.Ivana

Wingham, published by Birkhäuser, Basel in 2013. Based

within the School of Art, Duncan is Deputy Head of School:

Research & Enterprise at the University of Brighton, where he

is also Director for the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing.

Tracklist (CD):

1) CF 42 (2:50)

2) CF 43 (2:46)

3) CF 48 (3:04)

4) CF 49 (3:08)

5) CF 50 (2:58)

6) CF 40 (2:55)

7) CF 36 (2:58)

8) CF 67 (1:48)

9) CF 66 (2:04)

10) CF 61 (1:54)

11) CF 70a (3:12)

12) CF 35 (2:54)

13) CF 33 (3:17)

14) CF 72 (3:03)

15) CF 73 (3:15)

16) CF 75 (6:09)

17) CF 76 (3:12)

18) CF 77 (3:07)

19) CF 12 (3:00)

20) CF 9 (3:11)

21) CF 82p11 (3:38)

22) CF 7 (1:47)

23) CF 5 (1:34)

released 02/12/2020