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Composition
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Instrumentation
for three percussionists, electronics, and video processing
Duration
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11:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/walkside-lost/">SEAMUS Database</a>
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<p><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/140159929?h=288b7f833a" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/140159929">walkside, lost (2015) for three percussionists, electronics, and video processing</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/jasontbuchanan">Jason Thorpe Buchanan</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<em>walkside, lost</em>
Date
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2015
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/648">Jason Thorpe Buchanan</a>
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<p><em>walkside, lost</em><br />by <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/648">Jason Thorpe Buchanan</a><br />Text by <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/823">Darcie Dennigan</a></p>
<p>Commissioned by Gaudeamus Muziekweek for Slagwerk Den Haag.<br />World Premiere: Utrecht, Netherlands – September 13, 2015</p>
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/823">Darcie Dennigan</a> - text
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Composition
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for solo alto saxophone, live video processing, and electronics
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13:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/second-study-for-alto-saxophone-video-and-electronics-pulp/">SEAMUS Database</a>
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<em>Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp</em>
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2015
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/648">Jason Thorpe Buchanan</a>
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Composition
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Instrumentation
for bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and electronics
Duration
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7:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/asymptotic-flux-first-study-in-entropy/">SEAMUS Database</a>
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<p><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/123763683?h=495249092f&portrait=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/123763683">Asymptotic Flux: First Study in Entropy (2012; version with Electronics 2014) by Jason Thorpe Buchanan</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/jasontbuchanan">Jason Thorpe Buchanan</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<em>Asymptotic Flux: First Study in Entropy</em>
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2012
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/648">Jason Thorpe Buchanan</a>
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<p><em>Asymptotic Flux: First Study in Entropy</em> was written over a three month period while traveling and hitchhiking throughout Europe, surrounding time spent attending at the IRCAM Manifeste Festival in Paris and the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. As one might imagine, composing with pencil and paper while constantly on the move can be rather cumbersome, having only short periods of time available to focus, and often taking place in awkward workspaces like cafes, restaurants, hostels, and the apartments of my various hosts. Most of these environments were quite busy and chaotic spaces. This situation presented a challenge after having spent most of my compositional activity to date in an academic setting with a piano or other musical equipment readily available.</p>
<p>My original intent when I set out was to explore the timbral possibilities of the bass clarinet, utilizing a variety of techniques to produce complex soundscapes and microtonal sonorities that would provide germinal material for the work while unifying the ensemble. In addition to the sonorities that are worked out through sampling and spectral analysis of multiphonics, additional pitch content is generated through an acoustic analogue to a process known in electronic music as “single-sideband modulation,” resulting in a series of combination tones made by adding two frequencies (for instance, a bass clarinet tone and an open scordatura string of the cello), to one another, producing a series that grows exponentially (i.e. 100Hz+200Hz=300Hz, 200Hz+300Hz=500Hz, etc.).</p>
<p>The title comes from an arguably conceptual device: the low E-flat that simultaneously pervades the work and is non-existent. I imagine that the ensemble is always reaching towards this E-flat as a point of centricity, but never quite arrive; analogous to an asymptote, as it approaches infinity. Entropy can be described as the “measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system,” or the “tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.” (source: American Heritage Dictionary). Taking some poetic liberties in reducing the scientific definition of “entropy” to simply a unit of measurement for chaos, one might say that this work conveys a state of high entropy in music, in stark contrast both to my previous work and to the classical tradition itself. This is a characteristic that I feel reflects not only specific elements of the compositional process, but also the result of the technical demands made on the performers, as well as my state of mind throughout the creation of this work.</p>
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Composition
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Instrumentation
for video and electronics
Duration
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9:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/graveyard-shift/">SEAMUS Database</a>
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<p><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/131047393?h=221f40cc6f" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/131047393">Graveyard Shift</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/fczuke">F. C. Zuke</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<em>Graveyard Shift</em>
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2015
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/647">Farcry Zuke</a>
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<em>Graveyard Shift</em> is a piece inspired by the events that I experienced while working overnight at a retail store. I filmed the videos over the course of two days and then spent one week editing the video and one week writing the music. All videos were shot in Lincoln, Nebraska and in an abandoned pioneer-cemetery in western Iowa called Slates Cemetery (est. 1878). Layers of film and sound are combined in various ways to complement one another or cancel one another out.
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Composition
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Instrumentation
flute, clarinet, violin, bass, piano, trombone, electronics
Duration
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6:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/irrational-rationalities/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="http://keithkirchoff.com/Contact.html">Contact the composer</a>
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<em>Irrational Rationalities</em>
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2015
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/646">Keith Kirchoff</a>
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<p><em>Irrational Rationalities</em> (2015) is loosely inspired by Alvin Loving’s painting <em>Rational</em> <em>Irrationalism</em> (1969).Loving was a cubist painter who concentrated on spatial illusionism, and at first glance, his painting appears to be a series of simple hexagonal shapes intertwined with each other. However, upon closer examination, one begins to see the irrational nature of the work, as none of the lines actually create completed shapes. Much like an M. C. Escher print, a line that at first appears to be the top of a shape is later seen as the bottom, or the side. The lines in Loving’s painting interact with each other and themselves, creating a series of illogical geometric shapes.</p>
<p><em>Irrational Rationalities</em> explores a similar play but from the opposite direction. The piece is comprised of three distinct thematic ideas, all of which are perfectly rational in isolation: an invented folk tune; weaving polyrhythmic polyphony; and violent – almost cubist – chords. These three thematic ideas are then irrationally layered upon each other and taken out of context, challenging the notion of passive listening.</p>
<p><em>Irrational Rationalities</em> was commissioned by and written for ensemble mise-en.</p>
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Composition
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Instrumentation
for piano and live electronics
Duration
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9:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/seeing-the-past-through-the-prism-of-tomorrow/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="http://keithkirchoff.com/Contact.html">Kirchoff's contact page</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202053192&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/keith-kirchoff" title="Keith Kirchoff" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Keith Kirchoff</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/keith-kirchoff/seeing-the-past-through-the-prism-of-tomorrow-1" title="Seeing the Past Through the Prism of Tomorrow" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Seeing the Past Through the Prism of Tomorrow</a></div>
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<em>Seeing the Past Through the Prism of Tomorrow</em>
Date
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2014
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/646">Keith Kirchoff</a>
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Composition
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Instrumentation
for bassoon and live electronics
Duration
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6:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/crookd/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="http://keithkirchoff.com/Contact.html">Kirchoff's contact form</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149750225&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/keith-kirchoff" title="Keith Kirchoff" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Keith Kirchoff</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/keith-kirchoff/crookd-for-bassoon-and-live-electronics" title="crook'd: for bassoon and live electronics" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">crook'd: for bassoon and live electronics</a></div>
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<em>crook'd</em>
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2013
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/646">Keith Kirchoff</a>
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Composition
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Instrumentation
for pitched (or non-pitched) object and live electronics
Duration
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10:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/one-2/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="http://keithkirchoff.com/Contact.html">Contact the composer</a>
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<em>oNe</em>
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2013
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/646">Keith Kirchoff</a>
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oNe
for pitched (or non-pitched) object and live electronics
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https://seamusonline.org/work/one/
3439
2443
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Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:01:38 +0000
2015-11-25 17:01:38
2015-11-25 22:01:38
2013
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keithkirchoff
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https://seamusonline.org/?post_type=work&p=3439
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http://opensound.org/osmp3s/os2013/os201304/kirchoffoNe.mp3
http://keithkirchoff.com/Contact.html
http://opensound.org/osmp3s/os2013/os201304/kirchoffoNe.mp3
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Composition
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Instrumentation
for piano and live electronics
Duration
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10:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/white-canvas/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="http://keithkirchoff.com/Contact.html">Contact Kirchoff</a>
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<em>White Canvas</em>
Date
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2012
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/646">Keith Kirchoff</a>
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<p><em>I woke up one morning after a performance in Connecticut, and I realized that everything I had recently composed was following a similar pattern and, to some degree, was actually just the same piece slightly reimagined. </em>White Canvas <em>was a compositional exercise in which I challenged identify each of these characteristics, and then intentionally do the opposite.</em></p>
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