Concert Music

Performed by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie and Jon Singer , December 15, 2015. Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016. 7:30pm.

Info: http://jsmishalanie.com/music/piece-for-eight-microcassette-recorders/


PIece For Eight Microcassette Recorders

Miranda Cuckson at Hunter College, November 28, 2016

more info here: http://jsmishalanie.com/music/pole-steam-tree-glass/

Pole, Steam, Tree, Glass (Performed by Miranda Cuckson)

I if I (2017) by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie (USA, 1991)
for string quartet and electronics
Mivos Quartet

Commissioned by the VIPA Festival for the Mivos Quartet
Premiered July 7, 2017 in Valencia, Spain
Recording Engineer: Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Mixed by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie

PROGRAM NOTES & BIO:
I if I provides ground for an exploration of the differences in our interpretation of meaning and expression in acoustic and electronic sounds. Here are a few related questions: Is a recording merely an image of a past sound? Is an amplified sound less ‘real’ if the speaker is separated from the instrument? If we interpret a sound as ‘artificial,’ do we take it less seriously? Is there some space between ‘real’ and ‘artificial’?

Originally from Utica, NY, Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie is a Brooklyn based composer, songwriter, electronic musician, drummer, and teacher. His recent research and musical projects focus on ideas about recording and sampling, recursion, and algorithmic composition. This has taken shape in many forms, including acoustic & electroacoustic concert pieces, a stop motion music video & EP released by Newlywed Records, minimal chamber-pop, improvised ambient electronics, and performances pieces like “Counterpoint for Two Isolated Drumsets” and “Piece for Eight Microcassette Recorders.” Jacob is currently a PhD candidate in composition at the CUNY Graduate Center, and previously studied at SUNY Purchase. His primary teachers have been Jason Eckardt, Jeff Nichols, Suzanne Farrin, Du Yun, and Huang Ruo. As a teaching fellow and adjunct, he teaches Music Theory & Technology at Brooklyn College, and will be teaching Critical Thinking at LaGuardia CC through the CUNY Humanities Alliance beginning in Fall 2017.

I if I (2017) by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie - Mivos Quartet

premiered by the Mivos Quartet on 5.9.2018
in Elebash Recital Hall at the CUNY Graduate Center

edited live recording
recorded and mixed by me

info: https://jsmishalanie.com/hover-between-something-and-something-else
score: https://issuu.com/jsmishalanie/docs/sachs-mishalanie_hover_full_score_5

In a scene towards the end of the film Through a Glass Darkly, an ambulance helicopter descends and a door in a house opens. Inside, Karin sees the door opened by god, while the rest of her family sees the door opened by vibrations and wind. In this piece, a recording of a helicopter, or white noise filtered to imitate the recording of a helicopter, act as a sound blanket, covering the acoustic string quartet. While some acoustic sounds emerge, most are hidden from ear. Amplification is used to generate an additional voice, distant and artificial, rather than to reinforce the acoustic sound. These voices may be heard as singular, inseparable, from a common source – or, detached, from different worlds, and irreconcilable – or, possibly, some uncanny place between.