Recomposed
Drawing from earlier works written for multichannel systems from 4 to 56 speakers, the works below were recomposed to work with the Audio Orchestrator.
Between the Earth and Sky 2020
In Between the Earth and Sky, an ambisonic recorder is bouncing around in the back compartment of a moped on the streets of New York. Plus Buchla. Cyland 1/1 Competition Shortlist Award.
Methods of Expansion and Contraction 2018
Methods of Expansion and Contraction is a 16-channel sound installation presented 2016 on Governors Island in New York City. Sounds were created on a Buchla Music Easel and a Hordijk Blippoo Box.
Euclidean Horns / Buchla Version 2017/2019
Euclidian Horns was originally written for the horns of the ships in St. John’s, Newfoundland, transforming the tugboats, trawlers, and ocean-going freighters in the harbor into an orchestra on water. The sound in the bowl-shaped harbor carries for up to 12 miles. The piece is written for a maximum of 7 ships, but as on the day of the performance only 4 ships were available. For a show at the Electromuseum in Moscow 2019 I recreated the 7 voices of the piece using a Buchla Music Easel.
Conflict of Interest for DNA Dataset 2017/2018
Conflict of Interest was originally commissioned as an Endangered Guitar work by Berlin’s Klingende Datenströme Festival 2017. This 2019 version for electromyographic gesture controller was presented at Hunter College on an 8-channel cube system.
Balance of Power 2005
For Balance of Power I used Eric Singer's LEMUR GuitarBot, a collection of four MIDI-controlled monochords. This piece is a 2005 multi-channel recording of the guitar pickups, overhead microphones and computer processing channels. It was presented as 5.1 surround sound installations in the US, Germany and Bulgaria. You’ll hear the 4 channels of the surrounding speakers, with the center speaker added to all channels.
Tail Rotor 2011/2016
Tail Rotor was originally recorded as a 12-channel version, during a residency at Diapason Gallery 2011. Published in stereo 2016 on album Deus Ex Machina / Endangered Guitar Live.
Endangered Guitar 2006
This excerpt is from a 17-channel performance at Issue Project Room, NYC (16 channels under the ceiling of a circular space, one channel in the back of the audience).
At the Hendrix Hotel 2018
At the Hendrix Hotel was premiered 2018 as an octophonic piece at Spectrum, NYC.
Oxide in Cologne 2012
Oxide in Cologne is an concert excerpt of our Oxide duo in 2012, with Christoph Irmer on violin and me on Endangered Guitar. There are three voices, ideally the violin is positioned in front, with the guitar live processing channels to the left and right. If a fourth person joins, they start at voice 1 (violin) again.