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Audio Post
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Reposition
Fall, 2012 for the musical robots AMI, CARI and TAPI; 5:00
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Breeding in Pieces
Summer – Fall 2009 2 channel recording Breeding in pieces combines compositional and production practices from rock and electroacoustic music. The piece creates (dis)continuity and form through higher-level feature (here, genre) contrast. Here, compositional and production practices from rock and electroacoustic music are combined and contrasted to create a diverse set of textures and relationships.…
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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…
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Assemblage of Gears
Fall 2006 – Winter 2007 for flute, clarinet, piano, electric guitar and double bass It seems that the ways in which we have come to work and play have propelled us away from our physicality. I find physical experience can act as a panacea to the frustration of both existential angst and the skeptical approach…
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Antiprism
ummer – Fall 2005 for guitar and computer; 9:30 The idea for Antiprism was inspired during a session with a percussionist friend of mine in which we were exploring the sounds of traditional instruments played with alternate techniques. At one point, the percussionist began striking a ride cymbal with a soft mallet and at the…
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Birth of a Machine
Winter – Spring 2005 4 channel recording; 11:30 Birth of a Machine is a story about mechanical soul searching. The first section is a gestation period; a stage for pre-developmental processes. The second section represents the fruition of this development as numerous fully-formed ideas strive for prominence through various cycles of combination and isolation. Musically,…