I will be playing my new work Cypher, for solo trumpet, at an upcoming concert organized by Kyle Rowan. The concert will feature the works by UIUC composers: Pin Hsin Lin, Quinn Collins, Steve Lett, Halim Beere, Leon Harrel, Shin-Young Aum, Kyle Rowan, and myself.
Date: 4-22
Time: 7:30
Location: UIUC Campus, Smith Hall, Memorial Room
2009
Pathfinder, electroacoustic music designed for 5.1 surround, draws inspiration from all the relatively small sounds that are made as we move through this world. The grating of rocks under foot, the crush of leaves, and the sounds of tree limbs snapping are among the sound sources used. The work is primarily concerned with motion, pace, obstacles, and points of arrival.
Pathfinder was composed with Grace (an algorithmic composition environment by Taube), Csound, Protools, and Max/MSP. This work was realized in the Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
2009
Cypher, for solo trumpet, is one of a series of works focusing on subtle ratios of time and the goal of obscuring the perception of 1:1. These ratios (for example - 1:1, 7:6, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2, 5:3, 7:4, 11:6, 2:1; or 12:12, 14:12, 15:12, 16:12, 18:12, 20:12, 21:12, 22:12, and 24:12) are approached by means of a loose system of situation based rules. Cypher - a secret method of writing, as by transposition or substitution of letters, specially formed symbols, or the like; writing done in such a method; a coded message; or the key to a secret method of writing.
Cypher was composed with Grace an algorithmic composition environment by Taube.
My work Absolute Zero has been accepted at the New York City Eletroacoustic Music Festival to be held on April 2th - 4th.
I am organizing a Concert of New Music to be held on the UIUC campus in the Music Building Auditorium, Friday, March 13th. The program will feature music from a number of my fellow student composers at UIUC, two of my former professors from GSU, a fellow composer from my GSU adventures, and of course a few works of my own. Farseer with Kyle Rowan - Clarinet and Pathfinder. More info. to come…
Update:
The not-in-concert-order list of works for the concert: Hanging on a Falling Leaf - Chiu, Coco2 - Cho, Tonoi III - Demos, End of Message - Mitchell, Obedience School - Neal, Farseer & Pathfinder - Swilley, Of oaks and pines - Rowan, This too shall pass… - Rundall, and Eclipse - Thompson. Take a look at the concert flyer here.
2009
Farseer, for clarinet and quadraphonic interactive electronics and/or fixed media, is a culmination of the composer’s fascination with optics, visions, and, well, things-visual. From considering the vast distances that we can now see with the aid of various lenses and other imagery devises, to the possibility of seeing into the future or past (via visions, hallucinations, or devices), the notion of distance and time having a “malleable” boundary for vision/knowledge/perception is central to the premise of the piece (listening is an analogue to seeing.) By using the clarinet as the sound source for the fixed media elements, as well as having live processing of the soloist’s performance, it is hoped that the melding of materials will have the periodic effect of blurring the perception of source, timing, and space.
Farseer was composed with Grace (an algorithmic composition environment by Taube), Csound, Protools, and Max/MSP. Farseer was composed for and with materials recorded from clarinetist Kyle Rowan.
The upcoming New Music Ensemble Concert on Feb. 17th will feature my work Absolute Zero as well as the works of many other fine composers. The concert will be at the Krannert Center in the Great Hall at 7:30pm.
My work Facture No. 2 for solo percussion is going to be performed at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks New Music Festival on February 6th at 8pm by Percussionist Caleb Herron (by memory).
Also, on the Sunday January 25th from 7 to 9pm (Alaskan Standard Time) there will be a program on local radio station called Funk Roots were a group of the New Music Festival participants (around an hour into the program) will be talking about some of the pieces on the program and the festival in general. If you want to give the program a listen, live streaming is available at http://www.kuac.org/. They may be playing clips of pieces to give folks a sampling of whats going to be performed at the festival.
On Oct. 26th there will be a exchange concert on the Roosevelt University campus featuring works of UIUC composers Ming-Ching Chiu, Ju Ri Seo, Pin Hsin Lin, Moon Young Ha, Vin Calianno, John Nichols, Halim Beere, Jae Eun Jung, Jimmy Bunch, and myself. My work on the concert is Absolute Zero for 2-channel electronic media. The concert is at 1:30 however the hall is still TBD… Updates to come.
- Update -
The concert will be at Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan Ave… See you there.
My work Absolute Zero was selected for inclusion in the Experimental Music Studios 50th Anniversary Celebration CD Set. The set is a commemorative collection of selected works by founding faculty composers, current faculty composers, alumni composers, and current student composers. For more information, including .mp3s, bios., and program notes on the many composers/works included in this set, visit the EMS 50th Anniversary Celebration website here.