30 musicians blasting the 7th annual otoacoustic emissions at st. augustine's church, tempe, halloween night.

https://www.jacobadler.us/otoacoustic

Otoacoustic Emissions 2014 (excerpt)

3rd scene of Buying A Home: A Requiem for Robert Ashley

Live premiere at the Kerr cultural center on  Jan 27, 2015. 

This scene features singer Holly Pyle and her loop machine deconstructing the field of decision making for potential home buyers. The text draws from game theory, opportunity cost analysis, and realty ads. Electronic music features "All Reds to Violet" by Tony Obr.
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Fam'ly Home
Condo space
Co-Op owned
Mobile Home
Farming land
Ranching land
Property
2-car g'rage
Carport space
One Story
Two story
Living room
Dining Room
Family Room
Den/Office
Laundry Room
Basement space
Gaming Room
Central Air
Central Heat
Swamp cooler
Hardwood Floors
Spanish tile
Doggie door
Litterbox
Fireplace
Swimming Pool
Spa/Hot Tub
Rose garden
Tennis Court(s)
Garbage can
Shingled roof
Patio
Furniture
Trampoline
Boat Parking
RV gate
Horse Stables
Lobster tub
Pets Allowed
Lease Option
Energy
efficient
Solar cells
Corner Lot
Cul-de-Sac
Golf Course Lot
Albertsons
Grocery store
Shopping mall
Taco bell
Burger king
Circle K
Quickie mart
Gas station
Waterfront
Golf Course View
Water View
Mountain View
Ocean View
City View
River View
Fishin hole

Decisions, scene 3 from 'Buying a Home'

yatayawahey

buddy hayes, witch doctor
jacob adler, organ

http://jacobadler.blogspot.com/p/yatayawahey.html

chehchki (dream)

Beginning from a cloud of zero-dimensional points and ending in a 6-dimensional hexeract, players travel through a progression of expanding geometric dimensions in 7 short movements. Each movement has a set of musical parameters. Numbers in the score represent frequency multiples of C (1:1) and may also represent rhythmic durations. Each dimension represents a multiple of a prime number; as the dimensions increase, so does the complexity of the musical scale. Players wander down lines in any direction, exploring the dimensions of each shape, playing a new tone when a new number is encountered.  Graphical score here: http://jacobadler.blogspot.com/p/n-dimensional.html

This piece was written for a microtonality concert at St. Augustine's, Tempe, on May 10, 2016.

Performed by Doug Nottingham (electronics, percussion), Parker Davis (guitar), Richard Bogen (guitar), Qais Essar (dilruba), Josh Hill (violin), Josh Bennett (bass clarinet), Dalton Dank (percussion), Paula Tesoriero (voice), Elizabeth Bayer (flute, voice), Holly Pyle (voice), Barry Moon (guitar), Brendan Rincon (electronics), Michael Frongillo (voice), Arijana Lempke (voice),  Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler (organ), Jacob Adler (electronics, tanpura, tsimbl, piano)

n-dimensional

György Ligeti's 4th Piano Etude, arranged by the openscore ensemble @ Paradise Valley Community College, Dec 2016.

Jordan Tompkins, guitar and recording
Alan Acosta, saxophones and flute
Neil Hathaway, electric bass
Connor Sample, drums
Ed Cuneen, marimba, vibes, glock
Jacob Adler, organ and arrangement

Fanfares (Ligeti) arr. openscore ensemble

Music for 2 organs, orchestra, choir, and electronics, by Jacob Adler.

I) Departure - 0:00
II) Interstellar Space - 14:30
III) Pulsars - 20:45
IV) Intergalactic Space - 35:00
V) Ascension - 40:45

Premiered at the Göteborg International Organ festival, Sweden, Hagakyrkan, Oct 14, 2018 by:

Haga Motettkör, conducted by Ulrike Heider
Lundby Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Björkdahl
Harald Svensson, piano 
Simon Halvarsson, percussion
Johan Björklund, percussion
Armand van Wijck, chromatic harmonica
Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler, organ
Jacob Adler, organ

Ripples in the fabric of spacetime radiating from the merger of two black holes 1.5 billion light years away have recently been discovered with instruments capable of detecting signals one ten-thousandth the diameter of a proton. These instruments are interferometers. They merge beams of light to generate interference patterns, which reveal the presence of gravitational waves. We are listening to echoes of the most violent events in the universe. And so we celebrate with music, generating our own interference patterns of sound and looking for meaning in these patterns. We remember for a moment that our planet is but an infinitesimal speck of dust spinning in an incomprehensibly vast and dark sea.

Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO, Chandra X-ray Observatory

Distant Collisions Of Dark Stars

Tony Obr, modular synthesizers
Josh Hill, electric violin
Jacob Adler, piano

Recorded Nov 2015

Labyrinth Of Infinitely Curved Lines (with Josh Hill and Tony Obr)

Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Wellentäler 
Composed for solo organ by Arvo Pärt
Arranged by Openscore Ensemble, directed by Jacob Adler

Recorded May 2020

Mo Farag, violin
Dominic Bonelli, viola, sax
Jordan Tompkins, guitar
Alex Levy, guitar/voice
Max Beckman, double bass
Jacob Adler, organ/accordion/mixing

Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Wellentäler (Arvo Pärt) arr. by Openscore Ensemble

recorded  in the asu basement piano woodshop in preparation for my microtonal seminar 'the magic of 7-limit harmony' at asu next week (thur 25th @ 4:30, W130)

7-limit harmony

Antiphonae de Spiritu Sancto
composed by Hildegard of Bingen (12th century)
with organum in parallel 6ths

Antiphonae

Composed by Perotin in Paris around 1198, Viderunt Omnes is one of the earliest surviving polyphonic works in 4 voices, or organum quadruplum. Openscore Ensemble arranged the music in the Fall of 2020. 

Parker Davis (guitars, percussion)
Megyn Neff (violin, voice)
Alex Levy (singing bowl, voice)
Jacob Adler (organs, electronic sound, mixing)

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