Showing posts with label violin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violin. Show all posts

Sunday, October 7, 2007

For Violin and Computer

I've been working a lot lately in improvised music, electronic music instruments and highly interactive music. So far it's taking me down the roads of interactive musical installations, 5 years of study in central Javanese, Sundanese, Malaysian, and Cirebonese gamelan (the latter containing the majority of the improvisatory material), and installation-style electronic music improvisations. These days though I've been working more with electronic solo improv along with various other combinations of instruments. This year I'll be getting together with a saxophone player (Casey) and a violinist (Megan) on Saturday mornings to practice and really develop music out of our own ideas.

Anyway after some working with a patch I created for performance, I've started to get a hang of it's nature. I think the patch itself, in a way, replaces a score as it limits the outcome and while there are many possible outcomes, they all seem to retain a similarity. I may post a few iterations of this piece but here's the first I've recorded. As usual in these sort of things, the best versions tend to occur when I'm not recording, but I think that's one of the great things about the form. I hope you enjoy:


For Violin and Computer (Oct30th2007)- 26'22"


Tuesday, June 5, 2007

New Directions

So I'm starting a blog. I've been working a lot lately in my room producing music that no one will ever hear and figured I would love a place to post some of these improvised sessions that I've been creating and a blog just seemed right. Not to mention the recent direction I've been taking in interactive music and AI. Providing MP3s alone on a website just doesn't really cut it.

Anyway, here it is. Hope you enjoy.

To kick things off I figured I'd post a pic of the setup in my studio/bedroom for my latest piece. A "Maestro" electric violin (left), a Behringer knob box (center left),my laptop running Max/MSP (center) and an assortment of metal tools for use with the violin (right) This is also the setup I've been using for electronic improvisations. More about that later though.