Penumbra / Umbra / Void
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Douglas McCausland
11.1.21

FULL PIECE AVAILABLE HERE: https://youtu.be/2gF24WisN-w

Penumbra / Umbra / Void is an entry in a diary. This piece is about self perception and identity, finding catharsis through the artistic process, recursive self-destructive cycles, obsession over minutiae, and self-inflicted isolation starting long before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Composed for cellist Seth Parker Woods in 2021, this work was supported by Music 541 and Experimental Sound Studio; cello materials were recorded with the assistance of Alex Inglizian and Ben Kolak.
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Penumbra / Umbra / Void (2021) // Binaural Audio

HYBRID MUSIC FOR MUTANT PEOPLE !
Musicians & Performers from St Louis.
(Isolune & Black Litchee)

WE ARE THE BLIND GENERATION, YES A KIND OF MISCONCEPTION, WE GO RIGHT, WE GO BRIGHT, WE GO THROUGH THE DISCONNECTION !

I was trained in tradition, yet I stepped beyond its walls. Sound is my language, not to decorate but to liberate. Composer, performer, and listener — one fire, three sparks, inseparable.

I write and compose to uncover what is hidden: the truth buried beneath power, the dignity of the ordinary, the current of awareness that flows through all.

I belong to no authority, only to sound, to truth, to the silence from which all begins. My work is not mastery, but remembrance — a manifesto in every note, every word, every breath.

I am a composer of the 21st century: a studio artist. The studio is my forge, my battlefield, my sanctuary. Machines hum like choirs, circuits burn like torches, cables twist like roots in the earth. Tradition breaks open in this fire — the score turns to light, the instrument becomes the world itself.

To be a studio artist is to seize sound at its rawest, to sculpt electricity and breath as one, to summon the invisible power that belongs to all. Here music is not bound by walls, not enslaved by profit, not tamed by form. It is free, untouchable, unending — a living flame for the century that is ours.

trying to learn from sound, nature and technology 


                                         __contact__
                    _         vanastenvincent@gmail.com___

future:
18-21 September What the garden told me @gogbot in Enschede 
past:
2025
08 July___________V23 Community day 
16 februari___________Ambient&cake [live]
2024
05december________ div.fuse [live+workshop]
19 october________ V23 [live//Matter]
12 october ________ Gifkikker [live] 
04_april________ Noase [live] 
2023
23_december___V23[live] 
22_june_________vierovier [live] 
5_march________galerie-el ___ [live] 
3_march________Noase [live]

Douglas McCausland is a composer / performer, sound designer, and digital artist whose visceral and often chaotic works explore the extremes of sound, technology, and the digital medium.

As an artist, he researches and leverages the intersections of numerous technologies and creative practices, such as real-time electronic music performance with purpose-built interfaces, spatial audio, interactive systems, intermedia art, musical applications of machine-learning, experimental sound design, and hardware-hacking.

Described as “Tremendously powerful, dark, and sometimes terrifying…” (SEAMUS) and “Ruthlessly visceral…” (The Wire), his works have been performed internationally, including features at Sonorities, SEAMUS, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, MISE-EN Music Festival, Klingt Gut!, Sounds Like THIS!, NYCEMF, Sonicscape, and Ars Electronica.  Recent collaborations include artists such as bassist Aleksander Gabryś, cellist Seth Parker Woods, the Quasar Saxophone Quartet, the TAK Ensemble, and vocal ensemble Variant 6.  His work is available through various online platforms, and on SEAMUS, Plyta Z Audiomatu, and Jikken Records.

Recent honors include an award of distinction in the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica for his piece “Convergence”, winning 1st-Prize in the 2021 ASCAP/SEAMUS commission competition, the gold-prize award for “contemporary computer music” in the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister Student 3D Audio Production Competition, and being awarded the runner-up nomination for the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music's 2019 CIME Prix. 

Douglas is currently the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Studio Manager at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  He holds a DMA in music composition from Stanford University, where he studied with Chris Chafe, Patricia Alessandrini, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, and Mark Applebaum.  He additionally holds a MSc in Digital Composition and Performance from the University of Edinburgh, a MM in Music Composition from Michigan State University, and a BM in Music Composition, Saxophone Performance, and Music Education from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

𝘙𝘪𝘬𝘬𝘢
𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳, 
𝘢 𝘋𝘑 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶

Next event : 

... :(

past :
01.04.23 OESHIXA OSX TOKYO EVENT @ bacon
31.03.23 TOP OF THE BASS @ Space
16.02.23 🇯🇵 Dystopia @ SPREAD
21.01.23 🇯🇵 Exasecond @ bacon okubo
03.01.23 🇯🇵 みんなのきもち Sommer Edition @ Manazuru peninsula 
16.12.22 🇯🇵 LiQuid Project vol.7 @ Heavysick ZERO
19.11.22 🇯🇵 無政府dystopia @ Rock cafe Loft
18.11.22 🇯🇵 the shin juju files @ bacon okubo
10.09.22 🇫🇷 NOISEFEST 01 @ secret loc
27.08.22 🇫🇷 oeshixa @ La courneuve
28.07.22 🇫🇷 xenosimulation0x Exhibition @ Paris 14e
20.07.22 🇫🇷 STARERA @ 82 CLUB
12.06.22 🇫🇷 ambiancetrange birthday party @ Le Zorba 
16.04.22 🇫🇷 oeshixa / rebbushka birthday party @ La courneuve 
25.02.22 🇫🇷 online plugg + GBR party @ Bordeaux
30.08.22 🇫🇷 Birth Bash @ secret loc 
26.06.22 🇫🇷 banak garden Party @ st-Denis
30.05.22 🇫🇷 8 clos x karajj music release party @ Paris 1e

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ACOUSTIC AND   ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC  COMPOSER .
STUDIED  COMPOSITION WITH  SERGIU  NATRA .
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC  MUSIC  WITH YIZHAK  SADAI .
PIANO  --  WITH  PNINA  SALZMAN  , BART  BERMAN  , AVI  SCHONFELD .
CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC  COMPOSER , ACOUSTIC ,
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC   MUSIC , 
EXPERIMENTAL  MUSIC . SOUND  ARTIST .
IMPROVISATION AND INTUITIVE MUSIC .
PIANIST .
ACCORDION AND  RECORDER  PLAYER .
FOUNDED  AND  CURATED    2  SERIES  OF  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC  MUSIC   IN TEL AVIV  ,  ISRAEL  -- 
 " NIGHT  HAPPENING -  FORUM FOR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC "    1986  -  2007
" OTHER  ISRAELI  MUSIC "      1985   -  1987
MANY COLLABORATIONS  WITH  POETS , ACTORS , DANCERS ,  PAINTERS ,
 VIDEO ARTISTS , PERFORMANCE  ARTISTS .
MORE THAN  120  PREMIERS  OF  NEW  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC MUSIC - 
ACOUSTIC , ELECTROACOUSTIC , MULTI-MEDIA  --  WERE  PRESENTED
IN  HIS  SERIES DURING  23  YEARS OF ACTIVITY .
HIS  MUSIC WAS  PERFORMED  IN  EUROPE , CANADA , USA .
WON  VARIOUS GRANTS AND PRIZES .