Written in 2009. Performed by I Gusti Komin and I Gusti Ketut Muliawan. Recorded by Suzanne La in Pengosekan, Bali in 2010.

Etude 2010

Timestretched to the length of the longest recording. Now available for download / vinyl: https://heyexit.bandcamp.com/album/every-recording-of-gymnopedie-1

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Every Recording of Gymnopedie 1

code: https://github.com/andrewcsmith/human_use_of_human_beings

This project takes Norbert Wiener's Human Use of Human Beings as a source text and inspiration, transforming a section by removing information in each successive paragraph. The Extermination of the American Bison is used as a statistical model of the English language, building a transition probability table (using a radix trie) for each n-gram. Then, a window is moved through the text with a threshold, such that if the information content (e.g., the entropy, according to Wiener) can be reduced by eliminating a given character, then that character is eliminated. The threshold is lowered with each successive paragraph, so that each paragraph becomes more "compressed."

These ideas owe quite a bit to Allison Parrish's work on using word2vec to compress texts using DCT (JPEG) compression. In this case, I'm interested in using probability tables at the level of the letter, which is significantly simpler, but also very fun to read aloud.

Human Use Of Human Beings - Live on KZSC

On the closing night of Le Guess Who? 2018, Indian Carnatic music pioneer Kadri Gopalnath gave a mesmerizing performance, curated by Shabaka Hutchings. 

About:
Kadri Gopalnath’s life’s work is to incorporate the woodwind instrument into the classic South Indian Carnatic music. To do so, the 69-year-old saxophone maestro single-handedly modified his alto sax and developed inventive playing techniques, recreating the microtones and vocal-like arrangements of orthodox Indian music. It took Gopalnath over twenty years to successfully integrate his instrument into Carnatic music, but the results are stunning; an ecstatic and majestic sound combining the best of both worlds.

Read our in-depth ‘Tracing the Roots’ feature about Kadri Gopalnath: “A lifetime of pioneering Indian Carnatic music”: https://www.leguesswho.nl/news/tracing-the-roots-kadri-gopalnath-a-lifetime-of-pioneering-indian-carnatic-music

Recorded and mixed by Marc Broer on Sunday, 11 November, at TivoliVredenburg’s Grote Zaal during Le Guess Who? 2018. 
Photography by Juri Hiensch.

www.leguesswho.com

Kadri Gopalnath - Part 1

Composed by Brian Baumbusch and performed by the UCSC Wind Ensemble. Conceived, composed, and recorded between March and June of 2020 during the coronavirus shelter-in-place lockdown using thousands of individualized click tracks corresponding to fragments of music from the score. The performers are:

UCSC Wind Ensemble Members:

Hunter Bauman - Flute, Piccolo
Mia Balsley - Flute, Oboe
Betsy Brady - Flute
Aya Kitajima - Flute
Bennett Imai - Oboe
Neil Fairbairn - Bassoon
Lam Do - Clarinet
Olivia Irons - Clarinet
David Leon - Clarinet
Megan  Spitzer - Clarinet
Damien Stoffel - Clarinet
Jacob Riberal - Alto Saxophone
Nick Hidy - French Horn
Nick Uhlig - French Horn
Brina Bodnar - Trumpet
Genevieve Kromm - Trumpets (Bb, C)
Ryan Odou - Trumpet
Daniel Smith - Trumpet
Elad Zohar - Trumpet
David Gatwood - Trombone, Flute, Mbira, misc. woodwinds and brass
Charlie MacDowell - Trombone
Kristopher Curry - Euphonium
Shannon King - Tuba
Nathan Cardenas - Double Bass
Greg Kauffman - Piano
Hari Kuttivelil - Marimba
Andrew Morgan - Glockenspiel, Piano
Michel Nguyen - Glockenspiel, Piano


Additional UCSC Faculty and Free-Lance Performers:

Jeffery Anderle - Clarinets (Bb and Bb Bass)
Kyle Bruckmann - Oboe, English Horn
Juliet Hamak - Bassoon, Contrabassoon
Paul Contos - Saxophones (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone)
Richard Roper - Trumpet
Vanessa Ruotolo - Cello
Brian Baumbusch - Muted Piano, Vibraphone
Mckenzie Camp - Vibraphone
Henry Wilson - Vibraphone
William Winant - Glockenspiel, Marimba, Vibraphone

Isotropes (2020 - performed by the UCSC Wind Ensemble)

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