Miriam Clinton
‘thioridazine dream’
Inspired in part by Janice Galloway’s experimental novel ‘The Trick is To Keep Breathing’, thioridazine dream (2001) is a journey through inner and outer worlds through the eyes of its protagonist, a female character slowly undergoing a breakdown. Through the course of the work, the distortions of her inner consciousness gradually overwhelm and mesh with the outer world until it gradually becomes impossible to determine reality.
iriXx (Miriam Clinton) ::
Summary
Miriam Clinton, aka iriXx, is an Australian-based composer, performer, graphic/machinima artist and free and open source (F/OSS) software advocate. She studied at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music with Don Kay, AM, and travelled to the Netherlands under a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust award to study early music performance practice with Leo Meilink and Martine Visser, and composition with Ton Lambij at the Utrechts Conservatorium. She also studied with Silvina Milstein at Kings College London, where she was the recipient of the Adam Prize for Music in 1994, the first time the prize was granted to a composer. In 1995 she was awarded an Arts Tasmania grant for studies in ethnomusicology with the Dutch composer Ed de Boer (Alexander Comitas). Later she began working primarily with electroacoustic music, studying with Katharine Norman and Nye Parry at Goldsmiths College London.
Clinton became involved in the digital rights movement during the early 2000s, working with the UK Campaign for Digital Rights and writing articles on free and open source software (F/OSS) and digital rights management issues for Linux User and Developer magazine and O’Reilly’s OpenP2P.com. During this time she began to work under the handle ‘iriXx’, a handle which she continues to use in music production and publication.
In 2003, she co-produced the Madonna Remix Project album ‘WTF’ with John von Seggern and Stephen Ives of DigitalCutupLounge and Kris ‘Thrash’ Weston of The Orb. The project was formed as a demonstration against the more extreme measures of the DMCA, EUCD and similar copyright laws. Artists were invited to remix a decoy track left by Madonna on popular file sharing networks in the hope of deterring file sharers. An album compiling the best remixes with additional works by Thrash and friends was later released on Weston’s label Justablip Records.