Expose the Window

Exhibited at Wallach Gallery, New York, NY, April 2023

Intimate Listening Space for the Hyperreal #1

Dendrophilia - Immersive Sound Sculpture - Stereo Mixdown

Recorded, engineered and mixed by Alana Marta DeVito
All parts written and performed by Bobbypin
Mastered by Alex Cowan.
Released: June 2016
Video HERE: https://youtu.be/1g7hs80fFWA

lyrics:
Driving that same dirt road
Breaking my back again
Crashing that same ol’ car 
Chasing my own demise
Taking you down with my own two eyes
Falling asleep with just a simple smile

Consequence of you 
Consequence of me 
Consequence of you and me 
Making the space for that second chance
Consequence of you and me
Betting a dance on this doomed romance

Consequence

Wake me as we pass the silicon eye
Visions of black and white
Somethings I hear but but much that just don’t seem right
Here I’ve held your thoughts so recklessly
Didn’t think I could hurt you, didn’t think I would

Blue Valentine, my blue Valentine
Blue Valentine we draw our battle lines
Blue Valentine, loneliest friend of mine
Blue Valentine

Shake these fears from your heart’s faded starlight
Pinpoints of lover’s lives
Some fates you need, but none that just don’t
Feel right

Lost for words I’m frozen here denying you’re mine
To crumble here, submit to my crime

Blue Valentine

Original version done in five channel active surround. Adapted for stereo listening.

My Wishes Include a Silent Mind. (stereo version)

Electroacoustic composition created using TidalCycles live coding and a unique sound sample library created from the manipulated bioacoustics of endangered red wolves. Original composed in 5 channel "surround".

N Danger Pulse ( STEREOmix )

Electroacoustic composition created on the Doepfer Analog Modular system. Original composed for 5 channel 'surround'.

Nerves In Motion ( STEREO mix)

Stereo version. Original in 5 channel 'virtual kinetic' surround.

<>Show Me<>Show You<>

Experimental electroacoustic composition in the traditional sonata form. Raw sound material from custom-designed MaxMsp patch and heavily effected, bowed guitar. Original piece available in 5.1 virtual kinetic surround sound.

Electroacoustic Sonata in Fundamental 330 Hz (stereo version)

Full audiovisual composition available here: https://vimeo.com/379451117

Sound source generated by the Doepfer A-100 Modular Synthesizer. Video art piece created using Processing, Hydra live coding environment and Jitter.

Program Note:
Vacillations Inside is an intentional copacetic dialogue between the aural and visual in the creation and presentation of an electroacoustic composition. The careful consideration of the relationship between the listener/observer and the composer drives the entire process, from the initial extraction of raw material from the Deeper A-100 Analog Modular System, to the sound design and finally the audiovisual composition as a whole. The visual creation is a mix of Prossessing.js visual creative coding, Jitter (visual programming in MaxMSP) and Hydra visual live coding environment. Does having a visual assist in reaching a broader audience for an EA composition? Does it help the less experienced listener feel they can appreciate this cerebral art? May it make it more approachable and accessible? Do the abstract visuals assist in expressing abstract sounds? Does having a visual connection to unfamiliar sounds create a more solid relationship with the piece for the listener? Vacillations hopes to take the electroacoustic composition into a playful domain while still expressing and challenging an important, human conundrum. Change. Growth. The progression of the cognizant human condition.

Vacillations INside (audio only)

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Alana DeVito is a Toronto-based composer, sound designer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist. Their career as a touring and studio musician spans well over 10 years, multiple countries and numerous instruments, and has now expanded into new forms and new collaborations in digital interactive art, film scoring, and installation work. In A/V installation, composition and performance, the weaving of ‘kinetic' soundscapes through vibrant, textural worlds take center stage while unique, sonic architecture project sweeping narratives. Creative computing intertwines immersive environments while blurring the line between the aural and visual sonic space.

A. M. DeVito

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