"Throughout the Winter of 2002-3, I marched against the invasion and occupation of Iraq, micro-cassette recorder in hand. In the months that followed, I began to struggle with how to represent and deepen these experiences using the tools of the electronic musician. Simply writing protest music was out of the question - we had just been through an object lesson about the inability of simple protests (in fact, the largest internationally coordinated demonstrations in history) to prevent the war."

"The result has been a series of flexible pieces for different groups of live performers with live electronics.  The pieces (and the series of which they are a part) are open in two senses: on the one hand, each of them incorporates moments of improvisation and a general orientation towards the contingent and the unexpected; on the other hand, the pieces have continued to evolve and will certainly continue to evolve for the foreseeable future - sometimes drastically."

"Some five years later, the Street Songs have been performed throughout Canada, the United States, England, Northern Ireland and Europe.  If you are a musician interested in presenting one or more of these pieces (scores and MaxMSP patches below) please contact the composer at the email address above, for advice, assistance or any temporarily unavailable material - and so that your own reflections, advice and assistance might contribute to the experiences of others with this material.

-David Ogborn

SCORES AND PATCHES

Street Song n. 6, for Guitar and Live Electronics, 9'.  premiered 25th March 2006, University of Toronto, Floria Nica (guitar), David Ogborn (electronics).

Street Song n. 5, for Soprano and Live Electronics, 7'.  premiered 8th September 2004, angelusnovus.net launch concert, Toronto, Kristin Mueller (soprano), David Ogborn (electronics).
  Score: street-song-5-200711.pdf

Street Song n. 4, for 1-8 woodwind instruments and live electronics, 8'+.  premiered 8th September 2004, angelusnovus.net launch concert, Toronto, Catherine Wood (clarinet), David Ogborn (electronics).
  Scores:
    street-song-4-200711-flute.pdf
    street-song-4-200711-recorder.pdf
    street-song-4-200711-clarinet-b-flat.pdf
    street-song-4-200711-saxophone-b-flat.pdf
  Patch (MaxMSP collective): street-song-4-20080326b.mxf
  Patch (editable MaxMSP files): street-song-4-20080326b.zip

Street Song n. 3, for Trombone and Live Electronics, 6'.  premiered 9th May 2004, Earshot Concerts fundraising event, Scott Good (Trombone), David Ogborn (electronics)

Street Song n. 2, for 1-8 viol-family instruments and Live Electronics, 5'.  premiered 2nd April 2004, NOW Lounge, Toronto.  Parmela Attariwala (violin), David Ogborn (electronics).
  Audio: available through the angelusnovus.net website.

Street Song n. 1, Tape (Stereo), 5'28”.  premiered 7th March 2004, University of Toronto.
  Audio: available through the angelusnovus.net website.