This is a sound project about the perception of memory. These four "rooms" represent a single room in my house through four different layers of its history. The first is of the family who lived in our house before we did. The second is of my mother working when this room was her studio, she practices Alexander Technique. The third is a description of my house after we had a fire, laying empty for about a year. The final piece is how I perceive the room today. 

Room #2 Working Mom

Room #1 The Family Before Us

The Story Of The Watch, The Sound and the Fury

Jeffrey Perry Lecture

Through transcoding, also called databending, I used the raw data from the pictures of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts, printed works, and a musical composition of her poetry by Luke Keonig to the poem "Faith" is a fine invention.  I used JPEG, BMP, TIFF, and Open EXR formats of the manuscript image, which all distort and interpret the data into different sounds. I distorted these interpretation of the raw data further, to show all the different sounds occurring in the buzzing. These sounds have been layered with two automated readings of the poetry, which I have also distorted to highlight their computerized voices. 
The image for this piece is a picture of Dickinson's manuscript turned into a sound, distorted, and then exported into Excel, exposing the glitch  and showing the code behind the information. 

Transcoding Dickinson: "Faith" is a fine invention

This piece features Luke Koenig's composition set to "Faith" is a fine invention by Emily Dickinson. Performed by Koenig and Marisol Ortiz-Dothard. 
Also includes compositions by Aubrey Nelson and Nicolas Lell Benavides, as well as readings by Jeremy Ward and Hans Ostrom. 
A special thanks goes to Marisol Ortiz-Dothard and Luke Koenig for letting me record your rehearsal process. 

Human Interpretations of Dickinson: Luke Koenig's composition of "Faith" is a fine invention

Composer Daniel Castellanos and Luke Koenig discuss how they interpret Dickinson's poetry into music. 
Marisol Ortiz-Dothard and Luke discussing the details of the song also included, Marisol attempting to interpret Luke's written music. 

Emma Samantha Holyst