The Constituency (chaos & horror)(2010 - 2020)
5 minutes, 22 seconds - Fixed media electronics
Jeffrey Cobbold (bass guitars w/ effects)
feat. Annamaria Chilimintris (violins)

The Constituency (chaos & horror) is an example of two stereo recordings of different duet performances overlapping as one. This conjoined instrumental recording creates a sensation of a quartet of instrumentalists performing together (two violins and two electric bass guitars with effects). With all instruments performed in the key of d minor/F Major, the two overlapped recordings create a blend of cohesive and randomized harmonic, melodic, and event-based sonics throughout its duration. As a foundational instrument the electric bass guitar brings forth a soundscape of grooves affected by time-based and tonal effects presenting an experimental sonic background.  As a featured instrument the violin leverages an array of techniques including tremolo, pizzicato, harmonics and ponticello. The work's title is a reference to social and political groups that engage in conflict with one another based on identity or their pursuit of agency in the world.

NJDAC: Digital Audio Concert - April 2, 2023
Richard H. Shindell Choral Hall - Robert E. Mortensen Hall 
Douglass Campus, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

The Constituency (chaos & horror) at NJDAC: Digital Audio Concert - April 2, 2023

Jeffrey Cobbold (b. 1984) is an artistic researcher, multimedia artist, and New Jerseyan who creates sonically driven multimedia works which have appeared in the MarketLab at Sonar+D in Barcelona, Spain (2016), Artworks-Trenton in Trenton, New Jersey (2017 - 2020) and the 9th edition of Elevator Music (2022), a sound art installation at Newark, New Jersey's former Gallery Aferro (2003 - 2023).