Upcoming Performance – Concert of New Music – Urbana, IL
Posted on 28 February 2009 | No responses
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.
Farseer
Posted on 28 February 2009 | Comments Off
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.
Upcoming Performance – UIUC New Music Ensemble – Urbana, IL
Posted on 5 February 2009 | No responses
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.
Upcoming Performance – New Music Festival – Fairbanks, AK
Posted on 20 January 2009 | No responses
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.
Upcoming Performance – Roosevelt University – Chicago, Illinois
Posted on 9 October 2008 | No responses
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.
EMS 50th Anniversary Celebration CD Set
Posted on 9 October 2008 | No responses
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.
Garden Music
Posted on 26 June 2008 | Comments Off
2008
Garden Music is a short musical visage inspired by rock gardens and the contemplation of life. It was composed using a modified FM Gong instrument in CLM and samples of plucked piano.
Garden Music was composed with the aid of GraceCL, an algorithmic composition environment, by Taube.
Absolute Zero
Posted on 26 June 2008 | Comments Off
2008
Absolute Zero is concerned with the “life” of the constituent particles of matter as they reach the invisible bonds of absolute zero. Absolute Zero (noun) – the lowest temperature that is theoretically possible, at which the particle constituents of matter do not move or have minimal motion. Imagine these particles as “life forms.” Consider the crowds, the struggle, and the panic that would be the result of such a event as absolute zero. Imagine yourself rebelling against the approaching bonds of cold.
Absolute Zero was produced using Csound, Absynth, and Protools, and was realized in the Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Spectral Evidence
Posted on 18 June 2008 | Comments Off
2008
Spectral Evidence, for percussion and piano, focuses on the stages of sleep and dream memory. “Spectral evidence was a form of evidence, based upon dreams and visions, accepted in court during the Salem Witch Trials. Spectral evidence was typically testimony given that an accused person’s spirit or spectral shape appeared to the witness in a dream while the accused person’s physical body was at another location” (wikipedia). This work is driven by the statistical occurrence of “non-steady-state” brain activity during the different stages of sleep. Brain activity such as Sleep Spindles and K-Complex are mapped to activity through the work. In addition, the “steady-state” brain waves during the different stages of sleep were considered when determining the overall evolution of density in the work.
Spectral Evidence was composed with the aid of GRACE, an algorithmic composition environment, by Taube. Spectral Evidence is an experiment in spectral composition, and is part of the continued experimentation by the composer in mapping the statistical occurrence of gestures over the course of a work. Spectral Evidence was commissioned by percussionist Caleb Herron.
Pendent Trajectories
Posted on 18 June 2008 | Comments Off
2007
Pendent Trajectories is one path that was taken. When started all aspects of the journey were undetermined or thought to be something that proved wrong. We allow intuition to guide us when plans fail or seem unimportant, and sometimes we find that which we did not seek.