Bohn Media releases the album Clairaudience today, including my piece Disturbances. Every work on the album is based on sounds from electronic voice phenomena. I used my live sampling tools to build the gestures and textures in the work.
Read more about the CD here, and click here for ordering information.
Read more about the Gamepad Sampler here.
My Etude No. 3 for horn was selected to be recorded by Tim Jackson for a feature on Composition:Today. It uses natural harmonics of the horn in a more contemporary way. (About the few measures he calls “unplayable:” I played them myself many times before writing them in the first place.)
Read more, see the score, and hear the recording here.
I was selected to create the interactive electronic score for this collaborative work involving site-specific dance and photography at Texas Woman’s University, exploring the impossibility of capturing the mundane. The event was part of The Body and Performance Symposium: Discussions Exploring Collaboration Across Disciplines.
All source sounds were recorded during an average day in the lives of different people. In performance, the sound clips are fractured, so that the treble, middle, and bass frequencies of the sound act as three facets of a flexible beat pattern that articulates time. As they are played, the sounds travel toward, past, and away from the observer independently, causing their speed and pitch to be warped in time and space. The result is a texture of fragmented scenes, woven together, from multiple and mobile points of view in time and space, presenting the sound events as ephemeral strands of instants in time. StillMotion explores the ordinary sublime: on the one hand the impossibility of recording the everyday (as soon as it is marked, it is elevated in some way), and the impossibility of recording a performance (as soon as it is recorded it is a frozen text).StillMotion was originally created for a collaboration with guest choreographers Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner, and the dance and visual arts departments of Texas Woman’s University. Photographs and sounds were taken of the dancers acting out an average day in their lives. The photos were used as a basis for the choreography, and the music, choreography and set design grew together organically. The performance consisted of dance depicting functions or feelings captured in the photos, stylized versions of photos on scrims hanging within space (sometimes invading the dance space), and this music, from processed sounds of the “average day.”
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Working was selected for performance during the International Computer Music Conference 2003 in Singapore as part of the “Transport” Project, in which composers around the world were invited to create pieces based on the same brief sound clip.
Note: The work has been extended and added to animation by Jeff Morris and retitled Harmonies (They Spin).
a thought amidst was selected for performance during the International Computer Music Conference 2002 in Göteborg, Sweden as part of the “Money” Project, in which composers around the world were invited to create pieces based on the same brief sound clip. A CD of the fifteen selected works will be released by Alta Sounds.
Amidst turbulent surroundings, a delictate musical thought persists.