The third piece in a series of works based on mobile device apps.

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This sonic haiku explores two opposing worlds. The first is the world of formula, machinery, and civilization. What starts with city life and industry gives way to automation and propulsion, leading to the gentle sounds of a sea of broken glass. The listener is then transported to the world of solitude and freedom, shedding pressure as footsteps in crisp snow walk into the distance. The work is, at its heart, an invitation to contemplate the chasm between process and choice.

Automation and Autonomy

Every Recording of Gymnopédie 1

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Medical text pp. 57: Age is an aggressive, virtuosic, and remarkably vulnerable piece crafted around the text found in the educational tome Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine Vol. 1 published in 1845. 
The chapter that this piece addresses is on the topic of age and its effects on the body through the multiple stages of life, beginning with nascent burgeoning growth and advancing to eventual unerring onset of decay. This piece manipulates the coherence of text and plays off of humanities want to comprehend speech in voices, often crafting phones and consonants that are similar to speech but contorting them beyond understanding. When juxtaposed with recognizable text and married with a plethora of timbral driven gestures and extended vocal techniques, smooth transitions between nonsense and meaningful text help to drive the piece through continuums of obfuscation and clarity.

Medical Text p.57 - for voice and live electronics

Composer and Sound Artist Kyle Vanderburg grew up in southeast Missouri where the Ozark foothills meet the Mississippi River valley.

Automation and Autonomy

Kyle Vanderburg

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