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Airing on May 24th 07:00 CEST
Riverside Whistles and Bells
Genre: Soundscape Composition
Duration: 45 min
This recording is a musical work "based on" the live performance described below. It quickly became obvious to me that creating a documentation that could adequately reproduce the live experience would not be possible due to the complexity of the performance scenario. Once this was decided, I was free to edit, tweak and in some cases replace the sounds from the performance, while remaining true to the durations and temporal placement of events as they occurred. I also employed a subtractive composition strategy, in which several events deemed unnecessary were removed.

Linda Corbitt performed live on the FCCR carillon across Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA reading from a temporal score that was synchronized with a live computer performance by Philip Mantione and the FCCR Handbell Choir on the roof of RAM (Riverside Art Museum). The computer portion is based on samples of the FCCR carillon, field recordings of the carillon at UCR, the train whistles and sounds that regularly permeate the community, and natural sounds. A live recording of the event is was released on the Petroglyph Music label.

Performers:
Philip Mantione - Composer, Conductor and Electronics Linda Corbitt - Carillonneur
Donald Miller - Handbells
Beth Miller - Handbells
Christopher Marsh- Handbells
Erin Brinton- Handbells
Brad Delorenzo - Handbells
Jake Pflum - Handbells

Featuring:

Philip Mantione

Philip Mantione has been professionally active in the audio and music industry as a composer, guitarist, synthesist, technologist, music copyist, multimedia artist, writer, and educator for over 30 years. He is an experienced Max/MSP programmer and his work has been presented in festivals, galleries, and museums around the world. He currently teaches at several colleges in the Los Angeles area and is co-founder of waveinformer.com – an audio blog dedicated dedicated to providing the latest information about sound, audio, and music production for all media.

22-24 May 2026 - 48hours of Radio Art