Commissioned for AKOUSMA X (http://www.akousma.ca) with financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts, "Terminal Burrowing", like my other recent pieces, uses next to no digital processing, and employs multi-tracked instrumental sound instead.  

In this case the instrumentation includes: trombone, hohner d6 clavinet, hohner pianet-t, yamaha CP60m stage piano, electric bass, electric mandola, snare drum, roto toms, miniature balafon, (toy) glockenspiel, autoharp, tuning forks, cowbells, kazoo, flexatone, found junk, high hat cymbal, toy pianos, flutes, pan flutes, thunder tubes, concert harp, harpsicle, melodica, hulosi, harmonicas, pitch pipes, thumb pianos.

It also uses speakers, transducers, a talkbox, and spring reverb for physical/ acoustical filtering and processing.  And unconventional sounding mechanisms like fans, vibrators, bows... 

Premièred October 23, 2013 at USINE-C

Thank you to Louis Dufort, Réjean Beaucage, and Freida Abtan.

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Terminal Burrowing (2013)

March 21 - 2009: 
Zbigniew and I spent a whole day generating source material for this piece. The following day we cut it all up to create this track. It was originally close to 35 minutes long but we chopped it up quite a bit more over the next two days. When Zbigniew and I hung out in London just before he left for Peru I decided to release it somehow or let everyone at least have a listen. Since March of 2009, this track was buried in one of five external hard drives of mine. Just about every year Zbigniew would head out to California around the month of March. He would make it a point to stop in NJ to hang-out and do a mini tour with me. Zbigniew was like a 'noise uncle' to me. He was the best. RIP Zbigniew - Memory Eternal

Please Note: This version is mastered by Matt Wellins so PLAY EVEN LOUDER. Special thanks to Chris Coady for technical studio and synthesizer assistance on this track. Also a big thank you to Matt Wellins and Tonio Hubilla for mastering this track for Zbigniew's Tribute Night at Ryan Jordan's flat in London.

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Michael Masaru Flora is an artist working primarily with sound in various contexts. Within the intersections of art, science, music, and mathematics he creates work that examines sonic morphology, spatialization, and human perception. His practice includes installation, performance, recording, and curation as well as collaboration with artists in the fields of transdisciplinarity, visual arts, dance, and performance.

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