We are constantly surrounded by little bits of designed sound. From a cell phone’s keyboard clicks on touch screens to synthesized engine noises in electric vehicles, synthesized sounds have reached a new commonality and—in cases such as these—replaced real world sounds. If a synthesized sound reaches the ubiquity and recognizability of that of a real world sound, does it, in turn, become a “real world sound”?
Composed at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and premiered at my senior recital.
Painting is "The Plough and the Song" (1947) by Arshile Gorky, whose visual studio art has served as an inspiration for my own sonic studio art.
Light refracted by slow moving water, gleaming or diffusing into nothing.
A subtle clash between the naturally-occuring overtones and artificially-synthesized sonorities.
[standalone excerpt]
Performed by John Kirchenbauer, Delaney Meyers, Daniel Orsen, and Aliya Ultan in the Clonick Recording Studio in Oberlin, Ohio, USA.
Photograph is Pacific Ocean, Iwate, 1986 by Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Recent Compositions and Patches
most of these can be found on SoundCloud, but feel free to contact me for unlisted pieces or uncompressed files
Name
Rock Biter
The Scattering
Adrift [excerpt]
Fusion9
I Belong to My Beloved
Contiguous
Permeance
Interlude 2
Decomposition Potential
Mulcher
Phantasms
Imbrue
Divertimento
Now We Are Here
Interlude 1
Suffuse
Herd of Elephants
Transition Study
Elastic Distortions
Untitled
3k
Year
2016
2016
2016
2014/2016
2016
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2012
2011
Duration
2.5
6.5
5.5
10
23
5
1.5
4.5
4
4
9.5
12.5
1
10
4.5
7.5
3.5
4.5
4
Medium and Notes
Acousmatic miniature
Acousmatic composition
String Quartet
Acousmatic composition
Acousmatic composition for dance
Acousmatic composition
Modular patch
Acousmatic miniature with performed diffusion (16.1 channel)
Acousmatic composition with performed diffusion (16.1 channel)
Modular patch (Permeance prototype)
Bassoon and playback
Acousmatic composition with performed diffusion (16.1 channel)
Acousmatic composition
Acousmatic composition in two sections for dance
Acousmatic miniature with performed diffusion (16.1 channel)
Ambient composition for junior recital
Acousmatic composition (8 channel)
Acousmatic composition
Acousmatic composition in the style of tape music
Synthesized acousmatic composition
Acousmatic composition (4 channel)