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Being Dufay: Vienna Launch
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Ambrose Field, composer and live electronics

Ambrose Field created Being Dufay in 2007, using extracts from Guillaume Dufay’s songs and motets sung by John Potter. From the outset, it was conceived both as a studio album and an hour-long concert event. In this live realisation of a studio sound world, Dufay’s music is presented intact, not something weird and alien, but rather an 'investigation' into the potential already in the original material. John sings the Dufay lines, while Ambrose digitally modifies newly composed material. The result is a rich, contemporary sound world which retains the essence of 15th-century Franco-Flemish polyphony.

ECM are releasing the CD of Being Dufay early in 2009, and the first launch event takes place in the Resonanzen Festival at the Vienna Konzerthaus on January 21st.


Being Dufay in rehearsal
| update: 2008-09-23
Northern Loop live in Copenhagen, August 07

Northern Loop (Ambrose Field, Paul Fretwell) play Huset, Copenhagen on August 29th.

We will be extending our dangerous and exciting just-before-real-time composition technique, making the music you hear only one minute before you hear it.

Expect lush sounds and beautiful backdrops.

See you there. Reports of the show to follow!

| update: 2007-08-20
Prix Ars Electronica Success for Ambrose Field's Storm!
23 May 2006

Storm! Ambrose Field's 2006 studio album (Sargasso) proudly receives an Honorary Mention at this year's Prix Ars Electronica awards, Linz.

| update: 2006-05-22