SOUND COMPOSITIONS
Suite for Broken Rhodes
This is a 20-minute meditation on the state of decay of a Fender Rhodes piano. Recorded as an improvisation, this piece was edited, then transcribed into a unique handwritten score that was pasted up into a large blueprint format. The music, at times, is layers of simple patterns á la Philip Glass, sometimes single notes to the point of final decay and sometimes interruptions of noise and static. It also features other aspects of the Rhodes by making full use of its construction -- playing the inside of the piano, using its volume as a hum generator and by layering non-piano and environmental sounds together, "Suite" becomes something else. Winner of the CCNY 2004 Mark Brunswick Award for Composition.
I. Improv
II. Overdriver I
III. Overdriver II
Sketches of a Groaning Building
"Sketches..." is a 10-minute duo for two double basses and subtle environmental sounds focusing on little-used sound-areas from the instrument. Conceived as an exploration of those areas, "Sketches..." also became a transcription project involving the design of a unique handwritten score. It is arranged in eight short sections, some involving notes, most involving some type of bass noise, all revolving around a breathy, circular-bowing centerpiece where the "building comes alive." Winner of the CCNY 2005 Mark Brunswick Award for Composition.
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Musique acoustique, écolgique et concrète
This disk contains the two instrumental/soundscape compositions listed above as well as other recent works. Most of these works are collage-based and conceptual in nature. All of the works on this disk (listed below) have been broadcast over the internet on the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology's show Giant Ear found on the www.free103point9.org website.
Available as a CD-R -- $12 includes shipping.
1.-3. Suite for Broken Rhodes
4. SSSeaport -- The Peking Squeak
5. Dinosaurs
6. Sketches of a Groaning Building
8. Zion Water
NOT on the disk, but for bonus listening : Gift of Tongues
Click turtle to read about some of the sound works on the disk
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