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Chronoclasm - in science fiction is one of the possible consequences of travels in time. As a result of meeting people from different eras, ideas and information are transferred from the future to the past. This causes some events and actions in the past, but all their consequences are already reflected in the future. Thus, the reality does not change, all the rings of chronoclasms ever created are already included in the course of history. On the contrary, the abolition of one of the chronoclasms will lead to a change in the future.
In this piece the idea of “broken time” is reflected in “broken” musical continuum and “broken sound”, since some of musical instruments are detuned.
The piece “Chronoclasm II” was written especially for the ensemble “C Barre” and was premiered at the festival on May 31, 2021.

Natalia Prokopenko - Chronoclasm II    for ensemble (2021)

Generative Music from the Untitled Microtonal Gardening Game.

37 EDO 16 DEG 0 3 4 11 12 15 16 18 19 22 23 30 31 34 35 36

19 EDO 3233323 secundal pentads

JACK Quartet

Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik
Remise Bludenz

recorded by Chris Swithinbank
October 6, 2022

Moveable Feast

commissioned by the Crash Ensemble 
(flute/picc, clarinet/bass-clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, laptop, violin, viola, cello, bass). 
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an Old Time tune called Ways of the World, which inspired the New tune I made for movement.

Ways Of The Underworld

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Commissioned by newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble. 
Premiered on November 19, 2016 at Central United Methodist Church in Kansas City, MO.

light years (2016) for mallets, piano, mandolin, and cello

(2013 revised 2015) for flute, vibraphone, piano & cello

Seven Songs is a re-arrangement/re-conception of a piece I wrote in 2011, originally scored for soprano sax, acoustic guitar, harp and percussion. In that original version, each of the seven movements really was like a song, with a simple melody, accompaniment or motive.

This new version retains many of the features of the old, including the order of the movements, the general structure of the piece, and the simplified harmonic language. But it distills and fractures the melodies and rhythms of the original: sometimes that means greater rhythmic detail and complexity, sometimes it means creating different ways of playing together, and sometimes it means eliminating everything from a movement except one small gesture, and exploring that gesture in much greater detail. The resultant set of songs is, hopefully, still emotionally direct and clear, but also freer, more elusive and continuously transforming. The piece now seems to be more like a set of spaces or empty rooms than a set of songs, each movement opening up onto the next space, the light slowly changing.

Performed at the nief-norf Festival 2016. Joshua Weinberg, flute; Aaron Gochberg, percussion; Daniel Schreiner, piano; Sophie Chang, cello.

Seven Songs (2015 version)

This piece celebrates the sounds of clocks, from the tiniest whirring of the bedside alarm clock to the grandest tower chime, through an exploration of these sounds' similarity to sounds of liquid. It has been meticulously constructed from tens of thousands of very short clock recordings, often aggregated at high density to produce gestural shapes that last sometimes only one or two seconds.

Its composition was made possible by the Dias de Música Electroacústica artist-in-residence program, and it premiered in November of 2016 at the Ecos Urbanos festival in Mexico City.

Clock Waters

Tierra y Centro de la Tierra (2018)
for Bb clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, surface transducers & resonant space (in this case a Roman water deposit located under the cloister of the Academy of Spain in Rome), midi controller (keyboard).
-Performed by Distractfold (Rocío Bolaños, Linda Jankowska, Emma Richards, Alice Purton) & Haize Lizarazu.
-Live recording at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. 26-06-2018.
-Unwanted birds from 14' on.

Tierra Y Centro De La Tierra (2018)

Menu Screen loop for forthcoming audio game, found ambiance (teaser)

found ambiance (game) Menu Screen Loop

After slavishly following instructions or procedures without critical thought, rinse & repeat is about starting anew and breaking routine. 


rinse & repeat was written, performed and recorded as part of the 2019 New Music on the Point Festival. 

I would like to thank Erin Rogers, Annick Odom, Colin McCall & Emerson Wahl for making music out of my instructions on a page.

rinse & repeat (2019) - for chamber ensemble

06.10.2018
Live performance from Église Saint-Salvi, ALBI, France

Viola Torros Project (Albi, Augmentations III - excerpt 2)

zoom live recording at Arboretum Festival, August 19th 2017

arranged for 11 strings
Forest Strings Ensemble

Carissa Klopoushak
Marc Djokic
Andrea Armijo Fortin
Heather Schnarr
Hilda Cowie
Marjolaine Lambert
Marlena Pellegrino
Thaddeus Morden
Raphael Weinroth-Browne
Sonya Probst
Paul Casey

ERE [ 11 string arrangement ] (2017)

I like messing with tuning and rhythm, occasionally I might even make actual music.

Bandcamp, which has a lot of my older stuff: https://guessw3rk.bandcamp.com/

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLHHDTjGCsETTIrbGTrL6Mw

got a freesound page, where I upload glitchy sound textures and such : https://freesound.org/people/dudebroman2/

Moveable Feast

Carolyn Chen

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