Patrick Liddell Explained

Patrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Oakland, California. He earned his Doctor of Music from Northwestern University in 2009.[1] His thesis is titled "Arrow To The Sun: Postmodernism As Compositional Tool", which outlines the contextual processes in postmodernist art, as well as includes a detailed description of the compositional, theoretical, and contextual framework for all his output.[2] The music from "Arrow To The Sun" was the basis for Liddell's first solo studio release.

Career

He has worked as a member of many ensembles within many genres, including The Zvooks (ska, reggae, Chicago/Germany),[3] Function Ensemble (progressive rock, Melbourne/Chicago),[4] Maurice (math rock, Chicago),[5] The University of Chicago Gamelan,[6] aperiodic (art music, Chicago),[7] The University of California, Berkeley Gamelan (Javanese, Sari Raras),[8] Gamelan Encinal (new music, Mills College, Oakland, CA),[9] Gamelan Sekar Jaya (Balinese, Berkeley, CA),[10] Steady Eddy And The Shakers (soul and funk covers, San Francisco),[11] and ANiMA Art And Music (electronic, Seattle).[12]

Liddell has regularly performed live and improvised video as a guest with countless groups in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as his own video/music/art under the moniker ontologist.[13] He designed Macintosh video software for this purpose, called ONTOplayer, which he released from Canzona Software in 2009.[14] His own music is an eclectic blend of 'art' and 'popular' styles, with direct references to jazz, soul, reggae, Renaissance, electronic, ethnic, progressive rock, Minimalism, video game, and film music. He has also designed and released Cantor's Comb: The Card Game, an original 64-card game featuring the music from the four albums in the cycle, on Canzona Games, in late 2020.

Liddell is most known for his video art experiment on YouTube "Video Room 1000", an homage to Alvin Lucier.[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

He is also known for his audio work and video collaborations with Vox Novus's 60x60.[22] In 2009, he created a video collaboration for the 60x60 2009 International Mix.[23] [24] In 2010 he created 360 one-minute videos in a collaboration for the project's 6 different hour-long "RED" mixes, with subsequent performances throughout the United States and internationally.[22] [25] [26] [27] The screening of this collaboration at the San Francisco Outsound Festival was hailed by Jason Victor Serinus, Special to The Examiner, "Expect it to stretch whatever boundaries you may not have thought you had."[28]

Liddell has taught music composition and theory at DePaul University.,[29] and until 2023 worked at The Quarry Lane School in Dublin, CA as Music Director and Coordinator Of Visual And Performing Arts, also teaching International Baccalaureate courses in performance and composition.[30]

Discography

Articles

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Faculty, NHSMI, Pre-college and Community, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University . 2010-10-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100604222727/http://www.music.northwestern.edu/precollegecommunity/nhsmi/faculty.html . June 4, 2010 . mdy-all .
  2. Web site: Arrow to the sun : postmodernism in music . 2020-11-24. search.library.northwestern.edu. en.
  3. Web site: Corey Dixon & The Zvooks. 2020-11-19. Discogs. en.
  4. Web site: Function Ensemble / Matthew Liam Nicholson. 2020-11-19. Function Ensemble / Matthew Liam Nicholson.
  5. Web site: Maurice. 2020-11-19. Maurice.
  6. Web site: Past Events Friends of the Gamelan. 2020-11-19. Friends of the Gamel. en.
  7. Web site: Past Concerts. 2020-11-19. a•pe•ri•od•ic. en-US.
  8. Web site: 2014-02-27. Indonesian (Javanese) Gamelan. 2020-11-19. Music. en-US.
  9. Web site: Bio. 2020-11-19. Gamelan Encinal. en-US.
  10. Web site: Gamelan Sekar Jaya. 2020-11-19. Gamelan Sekar Jaya. en-US.
  11. Web site: Steady Eddy and the Shakers. 2020-11-19. GigSalad. en.
  12. Web site: Events. 2020-11-19. Louis Chinn. en-US.
  13. Web site: ontologist . Ontologist.us . January 6, 2010 . October 25, 2011.
  14. Web site: Gratis aflaai ONTOplayer Vir Mac ::: Video spelers. 2020-11-19. af.softoware.org.
  15. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/youtube-video-uploaded-10_n_601066.html What Happens To A YouTube Video Uploaded 1,000 Times
  16. http://mashable.com/2010/06/03/youtube-i-am-sitting/ What Happens to a YouTube Video After 1,000 Uploads?
  17. http://gawker.com/5554154/what-does-a-video-look-like-after-1000-youtube-uploads What Does a Video Look Like After 1000 YouTube Uploads?
  18. http://www.switched.com/tag/patrick+liddell/ Musician Uploads Video of Himself to YouTube 1000 Times
  19. Web site: Gizmodo . Gizmodo . June 4, 2010 . October 25, 2011.
  20. Web site: The Daily Swarm . The Daily Swarm . June 4, 2010 . October 25, 2011.
  21. Web site: The Awesomer . The Awesomer . October 25, 2011.
  22. Web site: ontologist . Ontologist.us . October 25, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120113104656/http://www.ontologist.us/label/?label=vox%20novus . January 13, 2012 . mdy-all .
  23. Web site: The Outsound Music Summit 2010 Schedule . Outsound.org . October 25, 2011.
  24. Web site: E. "Doc" Smith . July 23, 2010 . San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News » The 2010 Outsound New Music Summit . BeyondChron . October 25, 2011.
  25. Web site: 360 degrees of 60x60 . Emmfestival.org . October 25, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110929003642/http://www.emmfestival.org/cgi-bin/public/concert_schedule_notes.cgi?record=1131 . September 29, 2011 . mdy-all .
  26. Web site: Current PiNG Events . Theambientping.com . October 25, 2011.
  27. Web site: Video Night at Rodan | Access Contemporary Music – Modern Classical . Acmusic.org . October 25, 2011 . dead . https://archive.today/20120717071615/http://www.acmusic.org/node/433 . July 17, 2012 . mdy-all .
  28. Web site: Outsound to showcase sonic mayhem | michaelfavia | Entertainment | San Francisco Examiner . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120601221546/http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/outsound-showcase-sonic-mayhem . June 1, 2012 . June 6, 2011. Outsound to showcase sonic mayhem
  29. Web site: DePaul University Community Music Division: Patrick Liddell. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111006133905/http://music.depaul.edu/cmd/FacultyandStaff/L/PLiddell.asp. October 6, 2011. October 25, 2011. Music.depaul.edu. mdy-all.
  30. Web site: Faculty & Staff Directory - The Quarry Lane School. 2020-11-19. www.quarrylane.org. en-US.
  31. Web site: iTunes – Music – Ontologist . Itunes.apple.com . April 18, 2008 . October 25, 2011.
  32. Web site: The Book Of Lists . Ontologist.us . May 31, 2011 . August 27, 2012.
  33. Web site: Cantor's Comb. 2020-11-19. ontologist. en.
  34. Web site: Ontologist. 2020-11-19. Spotify. en.