Uri Kochavi/ Relics of Movement- Wet Ink Ensemble
For five instruments, amplified objects and electronics.

* Recorded at the Computer music center at Columbia University 
 May 9th, 2021
Audio Engineer- David Adamcyk
Mix- Uri Kochavi

Wet Ink:
Josh Modney- Violin
Marielle Roberts- Cello
Laura Cocks- Flute
Erin Rogers- Saxophone
Vicky Chow- Piano

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“If a bird were to paint, would it not be by letting fall its feathers, a snake by casting off its scales, a tree by letting fall its leaves?...let us not forget that the painter's brush stroke is something in which a movement is terminated.”  Jacques Lacan, seminar XI.
 
Relics of movement is an exploration of sonic traces, of the ability to experience relics of past movements in present time. It is my attempt to deal with the notion that temporality is always fragmented in the individuals’ experience of a narrative, and with the sense that history is experienced as (a) past only insofar as it is constantly historicized in the present.
Materials do not ever really end, but rather resurface in a fragmented manner, passing freely between the acoustic and the electronic, the instrumental and the objectal. 
Instruments are objectified and objects are instrumentalized as something is constantly materializing, coming into being.

Relics of Movement- for five instruments, amplified objects 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.

Relics of Movement- for five instruments, amplified objects and electronics

Uri Kochavi

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