Project Cassiel — Nick Rothwell — digital music and visuals designer, award-winning composer, software builder, generative process collaborator for the performing arts.
Featured: commercial tracks, streaming links and videos of live performances. Includes commissions from choreographers (Shobana Jeyasingh, Avatâra Ayuso, Luz&Mannion Dance and others) and group collaborations (Team Metlay, Khyal Geometries, Different Skies).
See also: main project site and blog.
Albums from the debut release Listen/Move (1996), originally released on CD and distributed to The Place theatre for independent choreographers and dance artists, now available as two "übertrack" albums.
Continuous play. Tracks: Dragon’s Domain - The Cathcart Circle (part 1) - Insidious Sedation - The Cathcart Circle (part 2) - Zero X - Nijinsky (Red Axis) - Tramway 4 - Laban’s Swastika.
Continuous play. Tracks: - Chaodai - New Moves - Sabine/Luna - 1919/21 (Green Axis) - Zoo Station Transit - Spinning Reserve (Silver Axis) - Traquair (Yellow Axis) - Plate 21 - The Mad Hatter’s Last Moondance.
Additional "übertrack" albums:
The first five “minute cubes”, six-minute EP’s each composed of six one-minute tracks. Composed and recorded January-March 2018.
Recorded live at the Nerve Lab, UAL, October 2024.
Compositions and live performances for dance.
Performed by Rosina Bonsu. Choreographer: Mary Niblett.
Performed 2019-10-04, Ortahisar, Kapadokya, Turkey.
Choreographer: Aydın Teker.
Dancers: Pınar Özer, Fırat Kuşçu, Metehan Kayan, Yağmur Telli Yücel, Can Sümbül.
Project in coordination with K2 Contemporary Arts Association and supported by the Turkish Republic and the European Union.
Artistic Direction, Concept, Choreography & Dance: Magdalena Mannion & Noemí Luz
Original EDM Composition & Sound Design: Nick Rothwell, Cassiel
Flamenco Advisor, Original Flamenco Composition & Guitar: Liam Howarth
Flamenco Song: José Tremendo Hijo
Khyal Geometries is a new project which combines classical, jazz and folk technique on the sitar with improvised live-coding of a digital audio workstation.
Sitar: Shama Rahman.
ICT and Art Connect residency, University of Linconln. Shown at FOaM, Brussels (11th May 2014) and European Parliament (12th May 2014). Restaged for Networked Bodies (Watermans) and Unusual Connections (Yorkshire Dance).
More information here.
Mike Metlay formed Team Metlay in 1990. The group is comprised of 8 fellow members of a computer information exchange known to many of you as “the Internet.” These members met in Pittsburgh in late December 1990 to pool their musical resources for two weeks.
Composed and recorded December 1994-January 1995, Tallahassee, Florida.
Live portion performed January 2nd 1999, Fiske Planetarium, Colorado.
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