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Solar House
Spring, 2013. A piece I composed for a video documenting the construction of Solatrium, a solar house project that WPI helped to design and build. http://wp.wpi.edu/solatrium/en/
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Reposition
Fall, 2012 for the musical robots AMI, CARI and TAPI; 5:00
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from here to there
2012 for the musical robots AMI and CARI; 5:00 From Here to There explores the transformational distance between contrasting entities. The idea of transformational distance, borrowed from psychology and algorithmic information theory, measures the similarity between entities as a function of the list of instructions that is required to transform entity A into entity B.…
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Push for Position
2010-2011 for saxophone, bassoon, PAM, MARIE and electronics Push for Position comprises a number of core trajectories that are defined by sound source (in this case, human-played instruments, robotic instruments, and synthesizers), high-level associations, and thematic material. These trajectories intertwine with each other so that when one rises to the surface, the others are eclipsed.…
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Street Meetings
composed with Steven Kemper, Fall 2010 interactive installation for the musical robots PAM and CADI Often, we shape our behavior in response to the ambient noise created by machines. This piece explores a reconfiguration of this type of interaction: here, machines respond to the ambient noise created by people (and other machines). There is an…
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Drum Circle
composed with Steven Kemper, Winter-Spring 2010 for the robotic instruments MADI, CADI and assorted found percussion instruments Drum Circle features the robotic instruments MADI and CADI playing a diverse percussion ensemble that includes beer bottles, woodblocks, metal bowls and traditional drums in the woods of Virginia. In some sense, the colocation of machine and nature…
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…for steps that grow when climbed
Fall 2008 – Winter 2009, rev. 2011 for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, tom-toms, marimba, piano, viola, double bass and electronics; 7:30 for steps that grow when climbed looks at (dis)continuity as syncopation within longer durations. The piece’s structure is characterized by perpetually expanding sections (thus, the title), with each section articulated by a discontinuous moment.…
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The Arc of Braided Movement
Fall 2007 – Winter 2008 for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello; 7:00 The piece’s motion is at times analogous to points along a pendular arc; directionally independent vectors occur in a general context of acceleration and deceleration (temporal structure is also exposed to accelerating and decelerating forces). My interest in the oscillation between coordination…
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Decay to Primitive
Fall 2007 4 channel recording In my experience, the texture present inspires meditative reflection. Alternatively and / or relatedly, this texture nudges one’s state of consciousness gently enough away from “equilibrium” (that state of consciousness to which one naturally reverts) that one could mistake the texture-induced state for equilibrium after some amount of time. The…