Knowledge Commons | Richard Nance | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/rick/activity/ Activity feed for Richard Nance. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:18:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 888b1447cf6d5131b53dbc13caf4f321 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Been a While, on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=679 Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:19:27 -0500 Nothing to say and saying it as the saying goes.Hard to consider myself as a composer, and so, I suppose I'm not going to for a bit. I've removed most of work from BandCamp. I've gone back to classical guitar, […]

]]> 84a1a1eb849cb1d67e4e71b37e6cc858 Richard Nance changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842306/ Mon, 24 Apr 2023 06:18:24 -0400 0 522be825f211eb990e14c257b2cacc2d Richard Nance wrote a new post, The Enemy of Good is Good Enough, on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=544 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:27:18 -0500 or: Choosing Better is Better Than Choosing Nothing

The microphone arrived (ECM8000), the new measurements are done, the new arrangement looks good (enough), but I can't build French cleats with the tools I […]

]]> dbb908e13de41ddfffa496c89ecd07ee Richard Nance wrote a new post, Anticipation ..., on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=528 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:25:27 -0500 I suppose.

My own private personal measurement mic could be here this afternoon! I ordered a Behringer ecm8000 last week. The price for a new one has dropped to about half of what used ones cost. I assume […]

]]> 1c8634e0d45b00496f99511a30761c73 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Studio Treatments (pt. 3), on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=495 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:46:08 -0400 RCP Pt 3

annnd we (me) continue,I've done one test using one HHB Circle 5A monitor with the monitor on the long wall. That is also the wall with the window. I know that it's considered best to aim the […]

]]> 11ab9c486fdc35ff2805ee99bffa0b76 Richard Nance wrote a new post, RCP Pt 2, on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=479 Thu, 03 Feb 2022 10:29:08 -0500 also see https://nance.hcommons.org/studio-report/

Plenty of Rockwool in the corners now, the desk has moved a little and the speakers as well.

I'm still learning. The desk is actually too big for a mixing […]

]]> d9d91002057542005ae350c953cdf6a4 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Room Correction Push, on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=469 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:51:58 -0500 The time has come to gather resources. The office studios are becoming an unreliable back up and having a good room for fine tuning won't always be at hand. The answer is room correction. (Thanks very much to […]

]]> e1c86b14ba6422edd62e08dcc1788fe6 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Buxton trip null, on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=465 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:38:37 -0400 It was a great trip for climbing, but the audio and photo gear is too bulky in that little car with 3 people's luggage and tackle. I took the LS-100 and might have gotten some crickets out on Robin Hood's Stride.

]]> 5ca79c025798ce0d59ffa52a234def68 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Field Recording, Bouldering, and Gravity's Part II, on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=463 Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:05:01 -0400 I'd meant to do this piece years and years ago. For practical reasons the sounds were taken from climbing gear: friends, nuts, ropes, etc. This time I wanted to get back to original projectI was recording my […]

]]> e1c1f7ddc5fc733757dbac8b13b97671 Richard Nance wrote a new post, A year in as a Zoombie, on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=455 Sun, 28 Mar 2021 11:07:56 -0400 It's been  little over a year at the time of this post actually. I am unfortunately less affected by the sparse contact with people than I think is healthy. My natural affinity towards being alone is being […]

]]> 21194410fe9f4d32fe09a93c8f59b5ea Richard Nance wrote a new post, Langham Research Centre, on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=453 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:01:55 -0500 ResonanceFM, a streaming show from London that was formerly a broadcast station, Has quite a few good shows. One the best for modern music is the one done by the Langham. They have a few disks and CDs. What I have […]

]]> 15f3b129a2d31aa8bdb1ac5add3c6a05 Richard Nance wrote a new post, The Coming End of Lockdown, on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/?p=447 Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:56:50 -0500 Not tomorrow, next week, or probably next month, but barring any mutations or other disasters a vaccine will open the world up again. We'll go back to teaching in person. People won't get scowled at (by me) for […]

]]> fb93ac2dc2c4727f0d9716df333b43b4 Richard Nance started the topic Organised Sound: Call for Papers in the discussion Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/organised-sound-call-for-papers-2/ Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:14:06 -0500 Organised Sound Volume 26, Number 1

Issue thematic title: The Sonic and the Electronic in Improvisation
Date of Publication: April 2021
Publishers: Cambridge University Press
Issue co-ordinator: James Andean (james.andean@dmu.ac.uk)
Deadline for submission: 15 May 2020

Improvisation is an important cornerstone of musical practice.…[Read more]

]]> ab5150ef042846fa11a290af8dbb66e3 Richard Nance started the topic Organised Sound: Call for Papers in the discussion Improvisation and Composition https://hcommons.org/groups/improvisation-and-composition/forum/topic/organised-sound-call-for-papers/ Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:13:38 -0500 Organised Sound Volume 26, Number 1

Issue thematic title: The Sonic and the Electronic in Improvisation
Date of Publication: April 2021
Publishers: Cambridge University Press
Issue co-ordinator: James Andean (james.andean@dmu.ac.uk)
Deadline for submission: 15 May 2020

Improvisation is an important cornerstone of musical practice. However, due…[Read more]

]]> a64fa084e275f86be3d82eeac749f6e3 Richard Nance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625278/#acomment-1625286 Sat, 08 Dec 2018 19:35:48 -0500 ecbad4e33665ed3db77477f5b5ca9947 Richard Nance posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625278/#acomment-1625279 Sat, 08 Dec 2018 16:25:27 -0500 This is a great start!

In reply to - Virginia Anderson deposited The EMC: Past, Present, Future In 1968, the pianist John Tilbury and the composer Cornelius Cardew, having built up a great body of experimental music, asked the then-youngest member of […] ]]> c0634c3d2187c5d9bd3f83411c6a34ce Richard Nance wrote a new post, Welcome!, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=404 Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:27:09 -0400 Just a sketch so far, but this space will constantly be being replaced with updates as the work progresses towards a December 2018 deadline.
I'm excited that it's this far along and isn't going to be finished […]

]]> 4f0c779ec425ab66b0ee691ea2b28f69 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Bounded vs unbounded affordances, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=400 Sat, 07 Apr 2018 10:43:02 -0400 Originally posted on 6/8/16 in response to:
CEC — eContact! 17.4 —
Back to the Future: On misunderstanding modular synthesizers
by Richard Scott

The inf […]

]]> 84a7e68f9ef4a7cf1a7d28d4d491c434 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Journals, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=396 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:53:36 -0400 There's an upcoming issue of a new music journal that includes ecological-based compositional practice. It's something I really want to take part in.
More information as it is released.

]]> 4099cd851c077a2eff2912102bd832b1 Richard Nance edited the event Music of the New York School https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603940/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:03:52 -0400 0 7803d5ec8ad757f69e7f8be7f9590b64 Richard Nance wrote a new post, A Workshop on the Public Humanities in Berlin, Germany (May 26, 2018), on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=391 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:23:33 -0500 It was about 9pm. Wanted to make sure things weren't worse than they had to be,so I parked about a block from the city jail. Just in case. Mornings can be a bitch.

 

 

]]> 0f04666e3073655e9dfde22a48b2c17a Richard Nance wrote a new post, More Web Fun, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=386 Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:28:44 -0500 More adjustments on the website. It's subtle. Too subtle really, for a page that rarely gets a hit, but I like playing with it.

Now, if you can notice it or let it sit for a few seconds to let it rise to the […]

]]> 7dffd5926cc157f51383b6e7c723f9ef Richard Nance wrote a new post, Me, Lee, and (3 of 3), on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=369 Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:37:48 -0500 More Free Improvisation

Visuals generated with  ArgeiphontesLyre, by  Akira Rabelais

I was really happy with this at first.

During the set I could hear Lee very well, and I thought we were blending b […]

]]> b50327f4f091e4492c230de79226134b Richard Nance wrote a new post, Lee and Me, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=359 Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:01:47 -0500 Duet with Lee Allatson on percussion and me on guitar

 

]]> 266a263f4d900ccd9a109c4c7dd0f5d7 Richard Nance wrote a new post, The stroll, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=348 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:21:06 -0500 Errands to run so I'll walk today. Irvin Arditti is tonight. Music to write today. Friday is improv at the house with Lee, so maybe sketching some scores of some kind might speed things along.

So... Lee is […]

]]> fffe30940b1e842a35385dcb9ffb6aa2 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Two Shows Tonight, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=344 Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:21:02 -0500 First up is the regular monthly show at Quad Studios with The South Leicestershire Improvisors Ensemble. At the same time, "Now For Something Completely Different" kicks off it's first show of the series with The […]

]]> c31c27bf77cd949b39c12105cd97ea31 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Passive Analysis., on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=317 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:20:45 -0500 Trying some short loops (semantic satiation exercise) while listening to some melodic classical guitar as background. Mostly just Bartok and Berg.  I'm getting used to the birch bark and the nylon strings […]

]]> 6b05b88fc06679bd3faeba00f3ed64e5 Richard Nance wrote a new post, sibilance and similarity, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=314 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:25:46 -0500 Leaves and "esses"
"separating" for instance.

vanishing points

 

fine lines

 

splits

]]> ae7b09dff389a74bb03109b9a1a0c769 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Ecological constraint as formal model, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=305 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:58:26 -0500 The composer, the studio, the sound, and the sources are the environmental components in these pieces. I propose that Gibson’s notions about the systems being tuned to each other apply here and the composer r […]

]]> 27d7913d892db3ded7316df27653fa7c Richard Nance wrote a new post, Palettes and Rhythms, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=292 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:22:08 -0500 Tearing Up

A sampling of textures, colours, and rhythms that will eventually end up in "Tearing Up."

 

Please remember, this isn't a pop-tune. You won't hear more than half the music on computer […]

]]> 2662a2aa9fd8a7bd0110ad76bba02f88 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Still reading ..., on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=288 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:48:54 -0500  

After multiple recent bouts with the Tate, I'm going back to the Kandel book. I haven't finished it, but after a long weekend of conversations with an old classmate, I think it's time. The psych degree […]

]]> 99e33e91f301462daec6354e2a1b3249 Richard Nance wrote a new post, The Tate Modern (Modigliani and Kabakov) Jan, 2018, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=274 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 11:44:26 -0500 Third time to visit the Modigliani and Kabakov exhibits at the Tate Modern. As the shows both come to the end the crowds have gotten heavier.

The Kabokov comes from the heart of the soviet era, but is situated […]

]]> 4f9cede7b9350db336235961dff2b1fb Richard Nance wrote a new post, Reflecting on dreams ..., on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=257 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:10:57 -0500 “It is necessary to refute the idea that the dominant ideology in our country even today is freedom and equality while racism is just an occasional departure from the norm on the part of a few bigoted extremists.”
_ MLK, Jr

]]> 68aeacd0eaa835a04e6cdbcd44bc32e4 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Famous Pencils, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=252 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:49:26 -0500 a88f67377e25e8ed45704e99bb63c3c9 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Practice Based Research, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=231 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:48:56 -0500 Video: Free Improvisation; Classical Guitar
10/1/2018

]]> 436d518cf64be7d41d0b5baa3b6e4877 Richard Nance wrote a new post, non-music rant, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=229 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:56:56 -0500 Not really a rant. Hermes delivery has serious problems.

]]> e51c0b6e3a45f1a67950064cc69b27d7 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Space and Finding Place, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=221 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:38:50 -0500 An almost interesting side note after the last dreary entry. I've narrowed my focus (or 'depth of field' if you will) to working with spatial movement in the sources I've already got in the mix. I've been pushing […]

]]> 54dcfeb2b31b7ea9b64286a73e09f258 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Paper Progress, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=207 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 09:40:48 -0500 It's not quite what it sounds like. It's not a paper, but it's a piece made with paper samples. Also, it hasn't really progressed in a while. That said, I just ran across some beautiful little spectral […]

]]> 3d2b6d947cdae097f30fc8aeb008dd37 Richard Nance wrote a new post, Final? Website update, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=201 Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:36:54 -0500 As far as design goes, I think I've settled. Tweaking colours will happen forever, and of course, or at least I hope, continuous additions of music. One day the integration with the music pages via BandCamp will […]

]]> 39726afd24bcd8dc28b3e008b2ce8d6b Richard Nance wrote a new post, Illusory upgrades, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=190 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 22:07:14 -0400 I was really excited that the new Mastering Audio course included some precision converters and finally some proper art-music quality monitors; a pair of ATC 110.
I had two orientations to the new kit, one […]

]]> ad005bfcb9cf206e6e9fc87b98c13fbe Richard Nance commented on the post, Website "done", on the site Music As A Plastic Art https://nance.hcommons.org/2017/07/website-done/#comment-5 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:01:01 -0400 How does ricknance.org sound? I had that one before and I can get it back. Snazzier would be PlasticAcousmatic. I could get a prefix like Fantastic to make it even worse/better.

]]> 37997bae01d2acab1fd6ef5878a927db Richard Nance wrote a new post, This Year, on the site Music As A Plastic Art http://nance.hcommons.org/?p=109 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:47:14 -0400 It's not ready to remove the "under development" tag on the front page, nor is it ready to receive a permanent domain name. I let my plasticmusic.net name lapse and it was picked up by a Japanese softcore […]

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