electromagnet variations
Excerpt from forthcoming album Electromagnet Variations; a collection of recordings created by improvising using pulsing electromagnets on various objects--steel drums, steel wool, electric guitar, saw blades, contact mics.
Excerpt from forthcoming album Electromagnet Variations; a collection of recordings created by improvising using pulsing electromagnets on various objects--steel drums, steel wool, electric guitar, saw blades, contact mics.
bursting variations
Excerpt from forthcoming album Bursting Variations.
Excerpt from forthcoming album Bursting Variations.
summary of the immediate
The second track from my 2011 album Present in Some Language, released with the netlabel tecnoNucleo. This album seeks to span extremes, from nearly imperceptible to overwhelming volume, from diaphanous instrumental structures to abrasive cascades of digital noise, from barren sparsity to maximal density. This track focuses on subtle motion and textural development. The full album is available here.
The second track from my 2011 album Present in Some Language, released with the netlabel tecnoNucleo. This album seeks to span extremes, from nearly imperceptible to overwhelming volume, from diaphanous instrumental structures to abrasive cascades of digital noise, from barren sparsity to maximal density. This track focuses on subtle motion and textural development. The full album is available here.
untitled 2014
This composition was created using a custom piece of software based around two algorithms. The first is a feedback buffer which streams its contents while simultaneously recording over them. The output of the feedback buffer is run through several tracks which manipulate the sound (by recording and looping small portions of the audio stream) before sending it back to the feedback buffer. This feedback produces an accumulation of noise, resonance, and density with each iteration. Additionally, an implementation of the clustering algorithm described by Albert-Lásló Barabási in his book Bursts is used in several parts of this program to automate parameters such as amplitude, timing offset, and the triggering of tracks to record over their buffer contents. The source material is a recording of a partially-improvised composition utilizing piano, acoustic guitar, and vocals.
Guitar: Noah Lefebvre
Vocals: Lenka Chludova
This composition was created using a custom piece of software based around two algorithms. The first is a feedback buffer which streams its contents while simultaneously recording over them. The output of the feedback buffer is run through several tracks which manipulate the sound (by recording and looping small portions of the audio stream) before sending it back to the feedback buffer. This feedback produces an accumulation of noise, resonance, and density with each iteration. Additionally, an implementation of the clustering algorithm described by Albert-Lásló Barabási in his book Bursts is used in several parts of this program to automate parameters such as amplitude, timing offset, and the triggering of tracks to record over their buffer contents. The source material is a recording of a partially-improvised composition utilizing piano, acoustic guitar, and vocals.
Guitar: Noah Lefebvre
Vocals: Lenka Chludova
sinter (excerpt)
This excerpt is from a 30-minute composition comprised of six 5-minute segments linked together. Each segment is created as an improvisation through the same software program--a step sequencer created in Max. All segments contain a similar formal structure, but are created using differing sound sources. More information on the software and download links are available on the software page, and the full album, released with Stasisfield, is available here.
This excerpt is from a 30-minute composition comprised of six 5-minute segments linked together. Each segment is created as an improvisation through the same software program--a step sequencer created in Max. All segments contain a similar formal structure, but are created using differing sound sources. More information on the software and download links are available on the software page, and the full album, released with Stasisfield, is available here.
the loneliness of objects
Composed for Berlin-based Blissland Gallery's The Art of Tarots exhibition, the loneliness of objects is a drone work created by live processing of a harmonica through a Max program. This material was then drastically time-stretched, and additional elements, such as hiss and noise created through wavetable synthesis, were layered to create the compositional structure.
Composed for Berlin-based Blissland Gallery's The Art of Tarots exhibition, the loneliness of objects is a drone work created by live processing of a harmonica through a Max program. This material was then drastically time-stretched, and additional elements, such as hiss and noise created through wavetable synthesis, were layered to create the compositional structure.
mamori
This piece was created during a 2-week residency in 2011 with the Mamori Sound Project. Run by composer and biologist Francisco López, the residency is based around field recording in the Brazilian rainforest. This work uses hydrophone recordings of underwater insects run through the fragments software program.
This piece was created during a 2-week residency in 2011 with the Mamori Sound Project. Run by composer and biologist Francisco López, the residency is based around field recording in the Brazilian rainforest. This work uses hydrophone recordings of underwater insects run through the fragments software program.
