COMPEL Omeka Dev

along the eaves

Item

Title

along the eaves

Description

“along the eaves” is part of a series that focuses on my interest in translational procedures and machine listening. It takes its name from the following line in Franz Kafka’s “A Crossbreed [A Sport]” (1931, trans. 1933): “On the moonlight nights its favorite promenade is along the eaves.” To compose the work, I developed custom software written in the programming languages of C and SuperCollider. I used these programs in different ways to process and sequence my source materials, which, in this case, included audio recordings of water, babies, and string instruments. Like other works in the series, I am interested in fabricating sonic regions of coincidence, where my coordinated mix of carefully selected sounds suggests relationships between the sounds and the illusions they foster.

Date

2015

Instrumentation

Fixed Media

Duration

8:02

Representative Recording(s)

Citation

Benjamin O'Brien, “along the eaves,” COMPEL Omeka Dev, accessed October 18, 2024, http://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/18.

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