Name: CMOS Improv by Clay Chaplin
Duration: 6 min 11 s
Description: Improvisation with two CMOS synthesizers I built. One was an Atari Punk console and the other a Cacophonator.

This piece uses recordings captured at Shell Beach in the Shark Bay world heritage area on the central west coast of WA. The beach skirts a shallow bay with a very high salt content, which renders it unliveable for most marine life. Billions of tiny cockles are one of the few species that have adapted to the hypersaline conditions, and the beach is covered with their shells instead of sand. Despite the unique biosystem and beauty of this natural wonder, just a few hundred metres from the tourist area, the beach is bulldozed and the shells sold for industrial and agricultural uses.

that which once harboured

took a party sample from freesound and ran with it

Composuary the 2nd, Party

Wavecave Edit1 021119

A live recording of an improvisation by Clay Chaplin, Heather Lockie, and Sepand Shahab using prepared piano, viola, sampler, laptop, harpsichord, and modular synth

Casa Berenice Trio

short excerpt from Prisma Interius IX (52 minutes), New World Records recording made with Dedalus Ensemble, 

"Mahler moment"

Prisma Interius IX - Dedalus - (Mahler moment, excerpt) 2018

This is an excerpt from a live performance.

To the dust of the well.     or
(confiding a shadow)

For strings, performer, and transducers mounted on drums

This piece has a strong performance aspect not reproducible as recording.

Musicians play instruments seated at one end of the room. 
A person plays a stone seated at the opposite end of the room.
Transducers are mounted on floor drums placed on the remaining ends of the room.

Premiered by Wasteland Ensemble at ArtShare-LA on August 10, 2019.
Adrianne Pope, violin
Linnea Powell, viola
Ashley Walters, cello
Brian Griffeath-Loeb, stone

To the dust of the well. [excerpt]

Henry Delargy, percussion
María Alejandra Bulla, synthesizer

Inner Space I

Improvisation with two CMOS synthesizers I built. One was an Atari Punk console and the other a Cacophonator.

CMOS Improv

Leaks

For musicians, field recordings, and speaker cones filled with leaves.

This piece has a significant performance aspect not reproducible as recording.

5 performers intermingled with 5 speakers playing individually collected recordings. In and around them subaudible vibrations rustle leaves.

This piece is about distance and absence, and also intimacy and presence. It is about things that are, even when they are not; and things that are not, even when they are. It is the light of a star, the transparency of a leaf, the growth of a tree. Performers engage in both individual and collective processes of score- and sound-making that involve translation, covering, translucence, (dis)embodiment. The performance is a projection of this world assembled of bodily, instrumental, and environmental sound.

As realized by LAEE at Automata Arts in Los Angeles on January 25, 2020.

Performers were:
Zaq Kenefick
Cristina Lord
Marcus Carline
Garrett Wingfield
Liz Chavez

CMOS Improv

Clay Chaplin

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