"From Below" is a fixed media piece utilizing processed sounds from electric and hollow-bodied guitars. The composition includes a series of timbral and spatial processes to create more ethereal textures while a low drone keeps us grounded throughout. This separation between “below” and “above” is further outlined through melodies that move between and outside of the electronic processes.
The mubone is an augmented instrument that tracks the orientation of the host object, a trombone, which effectively captures the performer’s movements for the purposes of real-time recording, playback, layering, and processing vis-à-vis a virtual 3D environment and a bespoke granular synthesis engine called mugranular.
