Uri Kochavi/ Bricolage (2022)
For amplified ensemble, objects, DIY instruments, and electronics
International Contemporary Ensemble
Conductor: Nicholas De Maison
live recording from the DiMenna Center, New York.
April 16th, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WLrhbFywAg
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Bricolage is a piece dedicated to the art of sonic scavenging, and to sonic omnivorousness. 
Instruments, objects, tools, performers, and actuators - all are regarded as carriers of intensity, as bodies through which sound is constantly flowing in all directions. 
The interest for me in this work was to reveal the different ways in which all sonic creatures, the refined as well as the disarticulated, the designed, and the serendipitous, can open themselves to new possible connections, territories, and trajectories.

Bricolage- for amplified ensemble, objects, DIY instruments, and electronics

palpability project [2023]

parts II, III, and IV.
Recordings of solo improvised performances from the summer of 2023 between the Bay Area/USA and Bahia/Brazil. All involving different setups of prepared electric guitar, objects, and electronics. 

Watch the first stage of the project (palpability I - improvisation triptych):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoU4ULkp4Co&t

⦿ palpabilitỿ IV
Description: pre-recorded no-input mixer improvised performance (level one of improvisation) acting as the carrier signal in a real-time cross-synthesis system being modulated by a live improvised scordatura electric guitar performance (level 2 of improvisation), plus a multichannel sine tone machine with an inverted envelope follower reacting to the cross-synth output. 

⦿ palpabilitỿ III
Description: improvised scordatura electric guitar performance with real-time spectral processing (spectral bin shifting, filter and blurring).

⦿ palpabilitỿ II
Description: improvised performance of prepared guitar, amplified objects, auxiliary open-strings scordatura guitar, MIDI controller keyboard, and automated sine tones Max/MSP patch.

palpabilitỿ II

- palpability project -

Parts II, III, and IV.
Studio recordings of solo improvised performances from the summer of 2023 between the Bay Area/USA and Bahia/Brazil. All involving different setups of prepared electric guitar, objects, and electronics. 

Watch the first stage of the project (superimposed improvisation triptych):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoU4ULkp4Co&t

⦿ palpability IV
Description: pre-recorded no-input mixer improvised performance (level one of improvisation) acting as the carrier signal in a real-time cross-synthesis system being modulated by a live improvised scordatura electric guitar performance (level 2 of improvisation), plus a multichannel sine tone machine with an inverted envelope follower reacting to the cross-synth output. 

⦿ palpability III
Description: improvised scordatura electric guitar performance with real-time spectral processing (spectral bin shifting, filter and blurring).

⦿ palpability II
Description: improvised performance of prepared guitar, amplified objects, auxiliary open-strings scordatura guitar, MIDI controller keyboard, and automated sine tones Max/MSP patch.

Bricolage- for amplified ensemble, objects, DIY instruments, and electronics

Uri Kochavi

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