"Headbanger" (2012), 1:05

Headbanger is inspired by the following John Cage quote:

"I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.' "

Considering Cage’s influence on electroacoustic music, I felt it would be appropriate to make a reference to his first electroacoustic composition. Headbanger concludes with an allusion to the constant note record heard at the beginning of Imaginary Landscape No.1 (1939).

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Headbanger

Excerpt from "GATES" (2013), 8:20

Completed in 2013, "GATES" is an electroacoustic composition that was partly inspired the Pleiades constellation. A musical mapping of an image of the constellation occurs in the middle and at the conclusion of the composition. One can hear this depiction in the “wood block” timbres. The composition begins with a complimentary relationship between periodic and non-periodic sounds; the sustained sonorities are engraved with a variety of successive fleeting noises. Recurring timbre themes and the transition from ephemeral to sustained sonic activity suggests a binary structure. The composer is grateful for the many musicians who participated in recording sessions.   

GATES (Excerpt)

Organized Sounds

luna

From an unreleased remix of Emre Tenker's Void II; this layer of music is entirely by me, and was originally overlaid on the ambient drone sound by Emre.

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