Performance that involves manipulation of sound sources or movement of sound in space. This term also encompasses Sound Diffusion, Room Simulation, and Mixing.
whatWALL? (2003)
For alto saxophone and quadraphonic tape
Written for and dedicated to Brian Sacawa.
a thick band of gray, a line that elides the end of day into the beginning of night (2005)
For singer and Max/MSP (with SPAT and La Kitchen sensors)
Please tell us more about your thoughts about duets and the evolution of your playing in this format.
Roberto Morales, Cenzontle
Skilled improvisers are able to shape in real time a music discourse by continuously modulating pitch, rhythm, tempo and loudness to communicate high-level information such as musical structures and emotion.
Temper for bass clarinet and electronics
Beside Oneself for viola and live electronics
Most people think what could I do, I think what shouldn't I do. What I should do perhaps is involved with the fact that I'm Jewish and what is known as Jewish paranoia. I don't feel comfortable enough to feel that everything is on my side and that it's going to work just the way I want it.
--Morton Feldman
The large-scale form for ME mirrors the classic seven yogic steps as follows:
1. Preconscious ME, Open Vowel Space
2. ME Builds the Language Wall
3. ME Sings His Narcissistic Canon
4. ME Sings His Greatest Song
5. ME Speaks to the Crowd.
6. ME Speaks to His Prompter
7. ME Is Cast Into the Future and Dies
Edmund Campion, music
John Campion, text and concept
NATURAL SELECTION (NAT-SEL) a real-time performance environment for computer and midi-equipped acoustic piano, 1996-present.
