projects

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• Four Pages for Melodicas—october 2019

  | audio | video | score

  a sort of composed improv for melodica orchestra

• Live at Babycastles - spectrophone painting and melodicas—september 2019

  | audio | video

  live painting and live coding spectrophone sounds

• Live at Muchmore's - spectrophone painting and melodicas—august 2019

  | audio | video

  live painting and live coding spectrophone sounds and double melodica

• journal/2019-08-12 space spectrophone—august 2019

  | video | audio

  spectrophone improv on a video from the ISS orbiting earth. blue - mostly GM7 square waves; orange/brown/white - detuned D harmonic series (24 partials)

• againagain—july 2019

  | showing event | code

  a dynamic poem in installation; visitors are invited to press a button, generating a unique rendition of a poem and printing it on a receipt for them to take home.

• sleepy summer day keyboard—july 2019

  | video | audio

  lil fake jazz keyboard improv

• live at bablecastles: painting, code, and melodicas—june 2019

  | audio

  4-color spectrophone, double melodicas, live code, aliens

• live at H0L0: painting, code, and melodicas—june 2019

  | audio

  3-color spectrophone, double melodicas, live code, aliens

• live painting & coding with noise guitar—may 2019

  | video | audio

  live at space, ft dan antoniu on abused guitar; dan and i are doing a semi-structured improv, i'm painting and live coding to make sounds with colors using the spectrophone

• othergreen—february 2019

  | video | audio

  for solo spectrophone and watercolors. premiered at spectrum. green: Db harmonic fractal (6 partials per iteration, 3 iterations) Sine waves, Db harmonic series (12 partials) square waves; red: scale of Db, F, Gf, Af, C square waves, light detuning of those pitches with sine waves; blue: equally distributed intervals of 20hz from 220hz to 4400hz sine waves.

• journal/2018-03-24—march 2018

  | recording

  fuzzed harmonic fractals, watercolors, and organ. green - 300 sine waves around a Bb fractal; blue - 300 triangle waves around an Eb fractal; pink - 300 square waves around an Ab fractal; pitches gravitate around harmonic fractals where, from a fundamental, harmonic series are recursively generated based on partials, with a depth of 3 iterations and 6 partials per iteration, giving 216 pitches per fundamental. oscillators are stochastically detuned and octave shifted around these structures. organ is improvised in accompaniment

• journal/2018-02-18—february 2018

  | recording

  green: harmonic fractal based on superfundamental F; orange: blurred around F and C; violet: blurred around E; blue: blurred around A

• journal/2018-01-21.2—january 2018

  | recording

  spectrophone with watercolors, assigning different colors to different harmonic series built on the first 6 partials of G

• journal/2018-01-21—january 2018

  | recording

• four pages—(10’ to any duration)—january 2018

  | recording | score

  for piano solo

• journal/2017-08-19—august 2017

  | recording

• journal/2017-08-18—august 2017

  | recording

• the transistorized radio—(59’)—october 2017

  | audio | video | code

  a meditation on what superimposes what. score: pencil, ink, 6 sheets of copy paper. audio: 6000 oscillators stochastically situated around the pitches db, f, gb, ab, bb, and c with varying weights on different pitches and octaves. samplers. organ

• i have heard a wonderful thing—may 2015-january 2017

  | read

  a book of music-poetry

• systemf—december 2016

  | code

  a brainfuck interpreter supporting linux syscalls

• we accidentally imagine—august 2016

  | read online | code | write-up

  a book of mutable poetry

• an electroacoustic installation—may 2016

  | recording | code

  an electroacoustic installation made in collaboration with cat toren utilizing algorithmically built poetry and autonomous sine wave generation

• how the air just sort of moves around—(8’28”)—april 2016

  | recording

  for live electronics and speaker, premiered and recorded april 17, 2016

• we figure out who we are and we aren't quite anywhere—(56’55”)—april 2016

  | recording

  a partly improvised music-poem for piano and three speakers

• the second hand somehow different this time around—(ca. 10’)—march 2016

  | recording | score sample

  for orchestra, speakers, and live electronics. created using algorithmically generated texts and musical materials

• here, the leafsighaway—(20’ to any duration)—november 2015

  | recording | example score | code

  a happening for large ensemble and audience reading to themselves built using algorithmic stochastic processes

• twenty two pages for string quartet—(ca. 22’)—may 2015

  | recording | score

• ten pages for soprano, harp, and cello—(ca. 9’)—may 2015

  | score | recording

  commissioned by one quiet plunge for a program on the theme of spiritual ecology. it was premiered in may 2015 by soprano lucy dhegrae, harpist caroline cole, and cellist nicholas finch

• contemplation on a chord—(ca. 75’)—march 2015

  | recording | full score | parts

  for string orchestra with individual parts

• four ostinato pieces for piano—(ca. 30’)—august 2014

  | recording | full score

• music for two violas, two basses, and yoga class—(any duration)—november 2014

  | recording | score

  a guided improvisation designed for a quartet to play alongside a yoga class, improvising in response to the character and intensity of the class as it unfolds. written for a class led by ayaka kamei at the purchase college wellness fair on november 4th, 2014

• duo for violin and cello—(ca. 9’)—may 2014

  | recording | score

  written for the 2014 cortona sessions for new music

• breathing song—(ca. 11’)—april 2014

  | recording | score

  for soprano trio

• warmth—(ca. 7’)—march 2014

  | recording | score

  for vibraphone, electric guitar, and two basses. written for the purchase new music ensemble

• five reflections—(ca. 27’)—january 2014

  | recording - the truth | recording - the fountain | recording - music | recording - recurse | recording - the wound | score and parts

  for mixed choir, 3 cellos, and piano. five songs set to poems by emily dickinson, sara teasdale, ralph waldo emerson, david an, and thomas hardy

• growth—(ca. 12’)—november 2013

  | recording | score

  for violin, viola, cello, and bass. written for the purchase new music ensemble

• duo for flute and cello—(ca. 12’)—april 2013

  | recording | score

  for flute and cello. written for the purchase new music ensemble

• piece for piano and guitar—(ca. 9’)—october 2012

  | recording | score

  written for the purchase new music ensemble