Bambuchla Shadows is a short exploration of colorful responsive sounds and live sound processing, for homemade bamboo flute and SuperCollider. It's my first fully realized piece for SuperCollider and live performer. The computer-generated sounds create a sparkling, shifting cloud in response to the very rustic and woody flute melodies, punctuated sometimes by live granulation and triggered samples from an ancient Buchla. I am an intermediate SC user, and I worked out the coding for this piece over several months; moreover, I also made the (admittedly rather crude) bamboo flute myself. It took several attempts to figure out how to cut and bore the finger holes and mouth hole correctly, and also how to cure the bamboo in the oven without setting the flute on fire. (That did happen on a previous attempt.) I like the contrast between high-tech computer sounds and low-tech flute I've painstakingly created in this piece, as both the digital and physical musical elements required experimentation and attention to detail. This piece is largely improvised, with scored cues for improvisation popping up as images triggered by the performance code.

2022