schemes that offer us a sense of futurity (2021) - for amplified soprano voice, flute, clarinet, violin, and electronics

TAK Ensemble: Charlotte Mundy, voice; Laura Cocks, flutes; Madison Greenstone, clarinets; Marina Kifferstein, violin
Recorded at Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC, April 25, 2021
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photo credit Emiliano Zúñiga

schemes that offer us a sense of futurity

One is too few, and two is only one possibility.

I write music and occasionally about music.

Hello, I am a composer working with acoustic instruments, analog and digital electronics, and field recordings, as well as an educator and a freelance sound designer and live audio engineer based in Berlin.

In my compositional work, I explore the idea of sound as an acoustic phenomenon that, as artistic material, offers the unique characteristic of being fundamentally spectral: although sound is emitted by vibrating entities in physical space, the absence of a bodily materiality by the time it is perceived by the listener lends itself to an experience determined by what is not physically and tangibly present. With this as a point of departure, I have been building a musical language that is defined by a narrative around what is not actually there, an aesthetics of absence and the illusion of presence, an aural phantasmagoria of sorts.

In May 2023 I received my Ph.D. in music composition from Harvard University, where I studied with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. I also have a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from McGill University, and a masters degree in composition and electronic music from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, where I studied with Mark Andre and Franz Martin Olbrisch. I am currently employed as Lecturer in New Media and Digital Technologies for Music at the Hybrid Music Lab of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

clarinets 


Madison is a member of TAK Ensemble, the [Switch~ Ensemble], and plays regularly in experimental music contexts. Solo practice mainly focused on wild, unruly, ecstatic, & polyphonic resonances of the acoustic clarinets, engaging in models of haptic and sensorial feedback paradigms. 

Upcoming releases:
Relative Pitch Records (spring 2023)

Composer and artist from Vancouver, Canada

schemes that offer us a sense of futurity

Julio Zúñiga