Being stranded on Everest in the Death Zone with minimal oxygen and snow-blind, just waiting.

Poffo (Improvisation 1)

This is a recording of a performance during a lecture/presentation at the Berklee College of Music. This piece revolves around using a Modular Synthesizer with an iPad and a custom MaxMSP software to create the effect of being in between radio stations with auditory hallucinations. The main garbled sound is part of a new Csound instrument for the Nebulae called "CombWarp". To create more rhythmic variations on the Eurorack, I created an Image Sonification program that works as a sequencer providing a way to interpret CV. The sampling (speaking/drums/guitar weirdness) was done using Samplr and Sector on an iPad.

Inside The Dial (Live)

rainbow colored flames of burning graphite

positiveThinking

This composition was created by taking various samples and processing them with a granular sampler in Ableton Live. I chose to pick only three samples as content, popular artists Rick James, The Isley Brothers and The Brecker Brothers. From there I started to pick small sections that were thematic and then stretched them out until they each had their own type of granular pad-like sound. After finding sections to work with, I stretched them even further, but focused on making them work contrapuntally so that the granular processing seemed like it was evolving. This leads up to a section of rhythmic intensity that is meant to feel like a swelling entity is rising until it slowly started to devolve into grains again.

PortlandCement

The object of this project was to create a composition that was solely derived from various sample styles and also only use Pro Tools to create this piece. The focus of the melody content was derived from editing various Hanna-Barbera sound effects and time stretching them. Then placing them in various sections to create a continually rolling sound effect that becomes the melodic content. By exaggerating these specific twangs and aerial sound effects from this library, I try to recreate the sense of being in a cartoon. The later half of the piece becomes more rhythmic with hints of piano samples to break up the intense speed of the first section.

Jowill

Light-based Data Sonification Drawing System designed using MaxMSP

OpticalSonance Sketch#3

OpticalSonance Sketch#4

OpticalSonance Sketch#2

OpticalSonance Sketch#5

This composition was conceived entirely in Max/MSP using 36 integers from the Fibonacci sequence as a metronomic tool. I created 2 sets of 36 interlaced metronomes with one set ascending through the sequence and the other descending. From there the 2 larger sets were broken down further into 14 independent Absynth instruments that could be controlled by specific message, button, and urn objects. The sounds in this piece were chosen based on their possible relation to oceanic sounds that could potentially be heard realistically or as paracusia while stranded in the open ocean. In essence, this piece to me represents a granular ocean we all wade through and collectively can be lost in the textures of the waves at the same time.

FrancisIngramBrown

Trio composition created using Eurorack Modular systems that are chained together, creating a layered soundscape.
[A -> B -> C -> B -> A]

A: Takahiko Tsuchiya
B: Deepak Gopinath
C: Christopher Konopka

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