“David Ibbett’s lo-fi electronic score put me in mind of John Carpenter’s soundtracks for his own films, which I mean entirely as a compliment.”
—Lise Smith of Londondance.com reviews Project 51 dance collaboration at The Place Resolutions! 2012. Morricone is certainly a big influence of mine! Read the full review
January 2010
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“Jacob Hobbs’s consistently amusing Project 51 was first out of the gate… Fuelled by a kick-arse score (by David Ibbett) fusing quasi-big screen bombast and club grooves, the grimacing threesome threw themselves into a series of stealthy, bellicose and OTT slow-mo macho moves that yielded wittily knowing juvenile pleasure.”
—Donald Hutera of The Times, The New York Times reviews dance collaboration Project 51 at The Place: Resolution! 2012. Read the full review
“Conductor Richard Baker provided confident and precise direction from the podium. I enjoyed listening to all three works, but particularly appreciated David Ibbett’s Albion Trails.”
—Rosalind Porter, BBC Radio 3 writes on the Barbican’s Total Immersion 2010 event, and the premier of Albion Trails for octet. Read the full review
“The Ibbett and Riddell e-cello compositions were the ones that I found most accessible and compelling. Gregor Riddell’s cello performances were passionate and elegant, and the use of electronic DSP software effects was tasteful. The textures and timbres provided by the DSP contributed meaningfully to the compositions’ narrative arc and lent extra emotional tension and complexity to the pieces.”
—Chamber Music Today reviews Impulse Imagined at Faster than Sound, Kings Place 2010. Read the full review
“According to musicologist Nicholas Cook, the visuals of multimedia either ‘conform’, ‘complement’ or ‘contest’ the music; the remarkable Equator Project {Acid Reality} did all three… The makers of … {Acid Reality} … have conjured a garish narrative of destruction that reveals and explains the process of its making; the piece is avant-garde and confrontational, yet completely understandable as a piece of communication… Stunning.”
—Eye Magazine reviews film collaboration Acid Reality at LSO St. Luke’s 2008. Read the full review
