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Pete M Wyer

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Pete M. Wyer is from a self-taught background. He started out as a guitarist touring and recording with bands in the 1980’s and 90’s. He has since written scores for the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Operas House, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, the American Opera Project, Juilliard, BBC Television and Radio, WNYC New Sounds Live. He is the creator of a series of ground-breaking projects, including a new system of music writing called time-structured scoring, which was used for the collaboration with poet Steve Dalachinsky 'Insomnia Poems' which was created for BBC radio 3 in 2009 and performed for the 10th anniversary in 2019 at Cafe Oto, London. His immersive installations, nicknamed 'iForests' have attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors, the largest, at Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles, used 72 independent audio speakers spread across an area of woodland and featured a choir of 72 voices

Album

Stories from the City at Night

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Pier 45; Somebody; East of Manhattan; Dina

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Pete M. Wyer: Stories From The City At Night

Read "Stories From The City At Night" reviewed by Lyn Horton


A record is judged a success when it creates its own context, which it upholds with content. If the content stretches only to the parameters of context and not beyond, there is a sense of limitation to the album. But in Stories From The City At Night, the mixture of music, prose and sound transforms the ...

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Pete M. Wyer: Stories from the City at Night

Read "Stories from the City at Night" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Pete M. Wyer's Stories from the City at Night bears uncanny reference to Kenneth Patchen and John Cage's 1942 radio play, The City Wears A Slouch Hat. Patchen, the “father of the beat poets," collaborated with composer Cage (there were no such titles as sound designer or DJ in those days) on an extraordinary soundtrack. Cage ...


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