COMPEL Omeka Dev

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  • embed (live) is a recorded improvisation for electric guitar and interactive electronics. When faced with a new electric guitar sound, some audience listeners might brush it off as just another effect. However, it is the effect itself that is the focus of their attention, which, in turn, minimizes the electric guitar and its role as a sound producer. Thus, in a sense, the effect supersedes its source. One way to get listeners to distinguish the instrument from that which is being processed is to invite them to confront the discrepancies between live and recorded sound. While recorded sound is a fixed representation or history of some sonic event, live sound is (sometimes) heard for the first and only time. In embed (live) the electric guitar acts as both an instrument that produces sound and a controller of another. While one sound is a live product of electromagnetism, the other, although composed in real-time, is a fabrication of fixed recordings contingent on the electric guitar input.

  • Fixed media piece using recordings of a Japanese shamisen. Best diffused over a multi-channel playback system.

  • Fractus I received first prize in the 2012 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition.

  • Kyma processing of human voices and lobby sounds

    Lobby Reforms is a live computer processing audio environment that brings the pre-concert sounds of people passing through the lobby into the concert hall (as well as back into the lobby) in an informal collage of social activity. Microphones are placed at key locations in the lobby to gather the sounds of people arriving for this concert, buying tickets, discussing the printed concert program, chatting about the day, and just milling about before the concert itself begins. The audio sources are processed in real-time and then directed back through the sound system to create a sonic environment that leads organically into the concert itself as the lobby sounds eventually diminish as a result of the audience leaving that space for the concert hall.

  • Justly-tuned guitar harmonic samples composed with rhythmic ratios and pleasant squares.

  • First movement of the three movements piece for Saxophone and live electronics. Live processed with Max/MSP and RTcmix. Premiere: Mar. 2015, Cohen Family Studio, CCM, Cincinnati

  • Second movement of the three movements piece for Saxophone and live electronics. Live processed with Max/MSP and RTcmix. Premiere: Oct. 2015, Cohen Family Studio, CCM, Cincinnati

  • Third movement of the three movements piece for Saxophone and live electronics. Live processed with Max/MSP and RTcmix. Premiere: Oct. 2015, Cohen Family Studio, CCM, Cincinnati
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