Ralph and the Robots started performing with Jenni as long ago as OS 8.6.
Their latest oeuvres are with Tiger and, whereas before they talked a lot about themselves and their digital lives and loves, now they are starting to branch out into textscapes with a political edge: Agitpoetry to compliment Jenni's Agitpot ceramics.
Plans are developing to explore new colours and textures using ambient samples, adding a few different voices to the lineup and for more duet work.
September 2006 saw Wordsart performing on the Greek based podcast; Artwave Radio and they are currently on-line at Soundlab IV's 'Memoryscapes' with their 'Caesium 137' (© Snowtracks Productions 2006), 'Grandad's Sparkle' (© Snowtracks Productions 2002) and 'Universal Simulacrum' (© Snowtracks Productions 2002).
Wordsart got their first break in 1998 with InSite, a Suffolk County Council CD ROM commission.
Jenni's CD ROM titled 'A Rising Rain' and released in 2001 with the rest of the InSite CD ROM set is a digital maze. It leads the player deep into graphic poems some of which can be recognsied as the source of Ralph and the Robot Choir's later audio experiments.
In 2000 Manchester based DADA commissioned Jenni to compose a set of audio / visual works for their website and the choir were on course for a string of virtual successes. The same year they attended Access Denied at London's Sadlers Wells; A Disability and Digital Technologies showcase, and in the following year Ralph featured on an Illuminati CD with Changing Games, words by Jenni Meredith, audio arranged by Richard Burns(© Snowtracks Productions 2001).
It was a commissioned work but no one is sure what the CD was called or if it ever actually materialised!
But Ralph and co were undeterred by such set-backs and set off for Berlin in November 2001 to display their choral talents at the GAGA Digital Arts Festival in a grungey undergrond cinema in the former Eastern Sector.
2002 saw Ralph and the Robot choir reaching out to reality; combining with a real choir on a SCOPE Millennium Award project.
Specially written works about Harwich's seafaring past were written but the project had little lasting influence on our digital friends who soon realised they prefer the relaxation of hanging out on the web rather than the tensions of mixing in venues like the Electric Palace Cinema.
SoundSense and Essex County Council funded the choir in 2003 to develop a set they called Commanding Voices about the History of the New and about life and the universe through digital eyes.
And now I am helping them to find a space here on MySpace so they can share their stuff.
I will update this regularly to be sure of keeping you all informed about any new voices we attract to the choir, any new gigs we get to perform at and of course all of our new compositions.
I love this animation. Hope you enjoy too?
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Here's my one minute green film for the Friends Of the Earth green film contest.
You can vote for your favourite at the FOE Youtube site from September.
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