Demo of a devised piece: Each performance is unique.

(Don't) Believe In Yourself

An except from (Don't) Believe in Yourself sung and remixed by Holly+ (https://holly.plus/)

(Don't) Believe in Yourself

(Don't) Believe in Yourself [Holly+ remix]

Bonobo Oboe

Kiss of the Contested Contessa Hex

A simple dirge using the open source VCV Rack, featuring the Algoritmarte Zefiro (inspired by the Buchla Easel).

Experiment For Emma

Duet In D Minor For Woodwind and Percussion

A solo synth recital, recorded "live" in performance at Mystwood (in Second Life), October 18, 2021, with an audience of about 10 whose real life locations are scattered across at least four continents. 

Part One: Fairy Catnip (Arturia's Buchla Easel), ends at 10:27.

Part Two: (Don't) Believe in Yourself (Apple's Logic Sculpture with custom Dark Cello patch), starts at 9:23, overlapping with Part One.

Part Three: Scared of Book Learning (two Arturia Buchla Easels in parallel, with a few strokes of Sculpture and percussion instruments toward the end), starts at 22:37.

Event photos by Seraph Kegel are available: https://mystwoodtales.wordpress.com/2021/10/24/a-musical-evening-at-mystwood/

The performance was mixed "live" in Logic Pro. The virtual synths were manipulated with an Arturia MIDI controller's keyboard, knobs, sliders, pads, and wheels. And a mouse. The recording was made and normalized with Audacity.

This live synth performance uses mixing technology similar to what DJs use, but instead of sampling from and (essentially) re-mastering prerecorded material, the synthetist mixes, manipulates, and re-textures prepared materials (sometimes called instruments, modules, patches, sets, or tracks). In this recital, the synth patches serve as a starting point. Each could, it can be assumed, be reinstantiated to precisely the same saved state. The performance begins with that prepared archival state, but is immediately modified such that no two performances could be exactly alike. Once the performance begins, its primary objective is to travel to a nice ending, guided by the performer's sense of what is pleasing--sometimes light and airy, other times dark and stormy; sometimes repetitively with gradual metamorphosis though some changes may be jarring or brutal.

Live in Mystwood

A Four of Swords Mentioned at Onement: Duet in Locrian Mode

Trance Continental Oscillations rev. 1.13 (32:07)
℗ Ember Botanical

0:00 Allegro
10:55 Lento
21:47 Adagio

Trance Continental Oscillations rev. 1.13

Five Grain Stew (8:56)
℗ Ember Botanical

Five Grain Stew

Sculpted voltage. Real-time live recordings. No multi-track overdubs. Live performances are streamed in Second Life.

Ember Botanical

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