Written in 2017, this work is for electric violin and real-time Logic-based effects.  The title include a bit of word-play and homáge to French electronic music pioneer Jean Michael Jarre, as well as the kind of inward looking self-investigation as described in Sylvia Plath's novel.  The music may be described as beautiful, but occasionally unsettling, and somewhat feline in some of its curiosity and reflection.

This live performance is by Davis Brooks, for whom the piece was composed, and recorded in Voxman Concert Hall at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

Quatre Regards dans la Belle Jarre

Jason Palamara is a performer/sound artist from New Jersey living and teaching in Indiana. He teaches electronic music and composition at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.  He also has teaching experience from Indiana Wesleyan University, Butler University, Indiana State University, Grinnell College, The University of Iowa, and The University of Louisville and ten million other places. He has composed music for many dance, film and theater projects, and specialized in new music technologies, collaboration and improvisation.  He was a founder of LOUi, the Laptop Orchestra at the University of Iowa and is currently building the world's first laptop orchestra made of 100% recycled machines, #trashchestra. He is also one half of the electro-acoustic sax and violin and laptops duo JC//jp with Iowa composer-musician Justin Comer.  You can find links to his music, events and more info at www.jasonpalamara.com.

I am an eclectic composer who writes with a postmodern mischievousness: my pieces can be comedic/ironic, simple/complex, or humble/reverent. My recent projects have taken a turn toward turn towards the sweeter side, exploring a consonant adiatonicism.

Quatre Regards dans la Belle Jarre

FRANK FELICE, composer