Signal processing is an area of applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time to perform useful operations on those signals.
Mark Danks presents a multimedia work involving projected video on a giant screen. A Silicon Graphics workstation generates abstract images in real-time based on the musical material played by the cellist.
Excerpt of "3 Western Gardens, 3 Western Seascapes, 3 Western Landscapes" for piano and computer-generated sound (1997), from Music Dept. concert. Performed by Jerry Kuderna, piano.
Excerpt from CNMAT Concert -- Eye on CNMAT: "The Body, Interactivity, and Improvisation"
Beethoven’s Melodram, for glass harmonica with recitation, was composed in 1814 as incidental music for Friedrich Duncker’s drama entitled Leonore Prohaska. My Melodrama, for electronic medium, was composed in 2003 as a long coda, attached to the end of Beethoven’s trifle.
This is a unusual piece for piano and electronics, written for Sebastian Berweck. The electronics are based of recordings of shovelling mud and the piano part involves a variety of transcriptions. Here's the original program note:
“Distance, no matter how close the object may be.” – Walter Benjamin
For string orchestra and computer driven electronics
University of California, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, David Milnes
Playback, (seven evening-length performances), Agora Festival, IRCAM, Paris, June 7-13, 1999
Playback, IRCAM production, Lausanne, Switzerland, September
Playback, IRCAM production, Metz, France, March, 2000
Année de composition : 1999
Durée : 90 mn
Information sur la création
Commande : SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques - Action culturelle) et Ircam
L’Autre (The Other)
For violoncello and live electronics
