[[[personablack]]] is a solo electro-acoustic project who focuses on simple materials.

Spliff Walking Songs

one of my favorite works which i arranged and performed
as a hommage to J.S. Bach. "Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh" (Come, sweet death, come, blessed rest) is a song for solo voice and basso continuo from the 69 Sacred Songs and Arias composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Komm, Süsser Tod by J.S. Bach arr. by josh carro  For Electric Guitars

Pt. Aashish Khan - Sarode

joshua carro - tabla acc. 

Pt. Aashish Khan (live in the Wild Beast at CalArts)

This is a work for 1 to infinite players.  Written for the James Tenney Symposium 2018 and performed by 
New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble 

DALTON HARRIS - trombone 3X
CLARA BYOM - clarinet 3X
IAN BRODY - cello 2X
CHRIS OGDEN - saxophone 3X
JOSH CARRO - piano 1X

This recording is a superimposition of the same work 3 separate times.

for 1 to ∞ - NMCE 2018

M[i][a]KRO architectural white noise 30'' X 50'' January, 20th 2017 j.m.carro  is a representation of systems attempting to achieve impossible operations.
notes.
through our current filters/variables/tools/madness (technology) which are themselves a product of nature, comes a completely indeterminate ‘work of art’ that is produced with minimal actions/choices/controls yet yields a complex and subtle beautiful behavior.
like the production of waves and the growth of life, there is no choice. choice is an illusion created by our ego, which in itself is an illusion/ madness that creates a never-ending
exponentially progressing
feedback.
however, none of this is inferior, everything from the universe to our malodorous shit is art because it is or is a product of nature.
performance.
M[a]KRO duration
the entire work length is decided by the performer and performed with a timeline moving across the score for relative performance accuracy. frequency and density
(for one or many instrument/s relative register/s) is represented by the range and boldness of the lines intersecting with y-axis
frequency duration
is represented by the length of the lines on the x-axis
intensity
is represented by the boldness of the lines from thin (soft) to thick (loud)

M[i][a]KRO - Performed By NMCE 2018

glitch kit made with: drum pad, whiskey bottle, woodblock, crotales, 10'' snare, and stylophone gen x-1

Djuice 2

manipulation of [[[personablack]]] live from the rec center 9/2/18

Manipulated Live Performance 9.2.18

The east coast premiere of 'time for sonic boom' performed by Shattered Glass Ensemble at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
NYC 9-20-18

'time for sonic boom' - 9.20.18 East Coast Premiere

[the now of time] is a graphic score representing indeterminate cycles of natural objects that were manipulated by ‘man’. stones - wood - metal meant to be performed acoustically or with electro-acoustic manipulation
the most profound question that could ever be answered/described would be ‘what is time’
 
through scientific analysis (spectral), it is evident that time is a detailed landscape built of an infinite amount of points/moments that are assembled by the computer (brain) to document and record (experience) the arrow/path/body of time. providing evidence of the once existing past without a certain predictable future, this is a strong suggestion that our conscious perception of time may be nothing more than separate frames (the now) interpreted by the brain which is then fabricated to filter the infinite possibilities of an unpredictable space for our own sanity and safety. if you cannot remember the past then you would not survive. through the process of survival and the knowledge of time, ‘man’ has learned to ‘control’ the universe, which has eventually evolved into madness.
but no fabrication of control is more powerful than the mystery of time. absolutely nothing is permanent but ‘the now’ of time.
modern science and philosophers suggest that time did exist before the big bang. if this universe is part of the multiverse (which is metaphorically evident throughout every aspect of nature from micro to macro) then this is true but, time for our universe didn’t exist until it was born. similar to a document/recording/artifact.
in this sense, this universe is an artifact being made by the multiverse because the cosmos produces evolving cycles of time that have a beginning and an end in every imaginable aspect. an absolute masterpiece that it is filled with a complete spectrum of cyclic experience or ‘the now’.

[the now of time] - World Premiere By NMCE

a segment from my newest modular work
[places of transformation]

13 - Skótos - Accordion, Cello, Violin, A. Sax, Clarinet, Trombone, Piano, Harp

Mermichael

[[[PERSONABLACK]]] 2020
is a new genre of
music with cross-pollinations of many musics from
Antiquity, Metal, Noise, Techno, Classical, Pop and Sound Design
elements. With the concept of pulse and the use of AI generative processes, these elements create a sound world of their own. With the balance of chaos and order using these sound elements, the output is what i like to call GDM (Generative Dance Music).

josh carro

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