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.