Excerpt time stamps are given to accommodate for the jury’s time constraints.
Project 1 – Resonator
for violin, viola, and prepared violin
Excerpt Time Stamp – 5:34 to 9:34
A prepared violin is made by inserting a contact microphone between the strings and the fingerboard. The compositional material in the violin and viola is then projected through the prepared violin using a transducer placed on the strings near the bridge. Turning on the contact microphone creates a feedback loop on the prepared violin, and this is incorporated into the composition.
Project 2 – disintegrating tape loop
for pierrot ensemble and electronics
Excerpt Time Stamp –
15:36 to 18:45
This piece is split into 4 sections: A, B, C, and D. The excerpt is section D. It features an edited recording of section C that was made using a Supercollider script that saturates the recording with digital artifacts. The ensemble layers a fragile soundscape on top of this recording to create a disintegrating effect. If you’d like to hear a small part of Section C, you can listen to 11:42 – 12:12.
Here is the Supercollider script:
b = Buffer.read(s, “filename”);
(
SynthDef(\bufferGranulator, {
var trig, rate, pos, sig, rec;
trig = Dust.ar(3);
rate = TChoose.kr(trig, [-2, 1, 2, -3, -0.75]);
pos = TRand.ar(0, BufFrames.ir(b), trig);
sig = PlayBuf.ar(2, b, loop: 1);
rec = Phasor.ar(trig, K2A.ar(rate), 0, BufFrames.ir(b), pos);
BufWr.ar(sig, b, rec);
Out.ar(0, sig);
}).add;
)
x = Synth(\bufferGranulator);
x.free;
Project 3 – Symbols
Click here to access recording
for solo percussion and electronics
Excerpt Time Stamp –
0:00 to 1:34 and 9:02 to 11:10
This work projects the phrase “this is a symbol, the sound of which changes over time” and the
sounds of cymbals, both real and synthesized, through different mediums to spatialize and acoustically filter sound. The sounds of these projections are then re-recorded and re-projected through a cymbal/room speakers. The second excerpt given (9:02 to 11:10) features second/third/fourth iterations of these re-projections.
Further details regarding the concept and execution of this piece is available in the score attached to the application.