Sound
Space
provides technical expertise and creative
music and multi media project design.
The company was established in 2005
by Kirsteen Davidson Kelly and Bertie
Fritsch. We work with sound in live
performance, music production, acoustic
design and music education.
We
are collaborators and creative thinkers.
We work in a range of environments and
are practiced at developing projects
as part of a team. We work with educators,
artists, film makers, musicians and
producers, industrial and corporate
clients.
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Kirsteen
Davidson Kelly
graduated in music from the University
of Edinburgh in 1989 and
subsequently studied piano at the Ecole
Normale de Musique in Paris
and with Melita Kolin and Nelly Ben-Or
in London.
A
founder member and director of the innovative
ensemble Piano
Circus,
she has performed internationally since
1989 and has recorded extensively for
Decca and other labels, including classic
works by Steve
Reich, Graham
Fitkin and Stravinsky’s
Les Noces (conducted by Vladimir
Ashkenazy). In 2003 she produced
Piano Circus’ critically acclaimed
CD Transmission.
Kirsteen
has collaborated with composers and
musicians, dance companies, physical
theatre practitioners, visual artists
and filmmakers – as a performer
and through her creative work with diverse
communities. She designed and led Piano
Circus’ international education
programme and, having moved back to
Scotland, is working locally to increase
access to contemporary practice within
a rural community. Earlier this year
Kirsteen was awarded the Wilson-Evans
scholarship for her doctoral research
into how music is memorized, based in
the Institute for Music
in Human and Social Development
at the University of Edinburgh
Bertie
Fritsch graduated
in Engineering
Product Design in 1989. For
his final year project he designed a
set of innovative electronic MIDI drum
sticks. After graduating he went to
work for Xerox
as a design engineer and there specialised
in product noise and vibration, gaining
a national
prize for his diploma
project in acoustics.
From
1999 Bertie has worked as an acoustic
consultant; projects include
the specification and design of the
music writing studio for Mercury Prize
winning composer Thomas
Adés, studio acoustics
for Overtones
Ltd and the famous Premises
studios in London, and the
specification and installation of the
studio at the British
Academy of New Music opened
by Sir George
Martin. Bertie was contemporray
music officer with DGAA.
He played drums and percussion on Play
and Rockingham
Street by the
Children. Bertie & Kirsteen
directed the video Just
deep! by Dynamix as part
of a Creative Partnerships project at
Skoke Newington School in London in
2001-2.
Bertie
engineered and co-produced Piano Circus’s
critically acclaimed CD Transmission
in 2003.
As
Contemporary Music Development Officer
with Dumfries
and Galloway Arts Association
he recorded and produced New
Transmitters, a CD compilation
of talented youth musicians from the
region.
 ,
He also plays drums, recording for artists
such as Future
Sound of London (The Isness)
and Max
Richter, and performing live
with Ten
Tonne Wasp
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