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Chamber of Mechanisms
Experimental electronic drone piece created from material generated on an ARP 2500 modular synthesizer.
Chamber of Mechanisms is a fragment-based electronic music piece, which uses audio generated on a vintage ARP 2500. This is a very rare analog modular synthesizer. They didn’t make very many of them and only a very small number still exist. The particular instrument I’m using for this project is installed in the electronic music lab at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. The instrument was there back in the early ’80s when I was a composition student at the U. of M., but it was completely out of commission. I’m so glad it didn’t wind up on the scrap heap, as has happened to so many of these exotic old instruments. It is now functioning and usable, and I was very excited to be able spend some quality time with this beauty. Many thanks to Michael Duffy who heads up the electronic music lab at the U. of M. for allowing me access to it. I spent an afternoon working with the instrument and recording a bunch of material that I then took back to my studio. There I transferred the audio into my computer and began work on constructing the finished piece. It sounds somewhat different than anything else I’ve ever done. This is no doubt due to the fact that the instrument itself has its own very particular sonic characteristics. -
Celluloid Veil
This piece uses a normal midi capable keyboard, then rescales the input to 40 pitches per octave. For the ease of the performer, standard notation is used as a kind of tablature; the written note corresponds to how it’s played rather than how it sounds. -
Ce que signifie la declaration des droits de lhomme et du citoyen
Commissioned by the Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges for anniversary of French Constitution. Voice: Colette Gaudin. -
Caution to the Winds
Written for and recorded by pianist Richard Cass. Supported in part by the Missouri Music Teachers Association.
Composer contact: mobberleyj@umkc.edu
Website (scores, recordings and info): http://jamesmobberleymusic.com -
Cardiac Cycle
Cardiac Cycle was written with two concepts in mind; the physical blood flow through a body and the concept of computer cycles. Embedded throughout the piece is an ever accelerating heartbeat, creating a sense of increasing panic and stress. This is coupled with the calm and repetitive sounds heard in the electronics and live processing. -
Can
Can is an abstract work that interrogates a limited range of sonic material.
Can takes two metal cans – a trash can and soda can - and crushes and shreds them sonically. It is a work of disrupted and transformed loops and rhythms shaped by strong spatial trajectories, and where classic compositional techniques of repetition and variation of material, within a strong formal design are at its core. This is a stereo version of a work that is conceived as a 5.1 piece.
"Can" won at the (2010) VIII International Contemporary Music Contest "Città di Udine" the Special Mention and medal of the Senato della Repubblica Italiana for the “electro-acoustic music” section. "Can" will be released on the Taukay label in 2011.
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Burdock birds
Musique concrete using synthezied and real birds sounds for outdoor performance and composed for the Burdock Festival organized by Christian Wolff at the Ray Nash farm in Royalton, Vermont.