Live recording of the Première of my piece for Cello and Live Electronics at the Chimera Concert in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall on 27th February 2015.

Featured in Leeds IFiMPAC 2016

Programme Notes:

Ground Zero (2014) presents a reflection on images of the ongoing Syrian civil war. The electronics function entirely to modify the sound of the Cello, making this piece very much a duet as the phrasing is dependent on complete synchronisation between the two. The development of the harmony, which makes functional use of the 24-note microtonal chromatic scale, is mirrored by developments in the spectrum of the final sound produced by the cello and electronic modulation, creating a strong link between harmony and timbre. The generative material for the music in Ground Zero is the natural harmonic glissando.
There are many aspects to this sound and these are all expanded upon over the course of the piece: 

- Rapidly fluctuating sound as the harmonics constantly change.

- A constant sense of the fundamental pitch which can be perceived even through all these harmonics.

- The pure, sine wave-like sound of the harmonics.

- The brief patches of white noise which occur in between harmonic nodes.

- The glissando.

Performers:

Cello - Miri Nohl
Electronics - Omar Peracha

'Ground Zero' (2014) - Cello & Live Electronics

Timestretched to the length of the longest recording. Now available for download / vinyl: https://heyexit.bandcamp.com/album/every-recording-of-gymnopedie-1

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Every Recording of Gymnopedie 1

for solo violin, pre-recorded spoken voice, and live electronics

Premiere: 8 June 2018; Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA

Luke Fitzpatrick, violin
Ibidunni Ojikutu, spoken voice 

DARN. exhibits a counterpoint of evolving structures. Perhaps the most prominent of these structures is the spoken part that contains a number of reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Music achievement, collected from various online sources. The reactions are integrated into the piece in a particular order, ranging from seemingly naïve questions about what qualifies Lamar’s album DAMN. for the award, to bursts of blatant racism.

The piece is also a study on Roland TR-808, a classic drum machine that has shaped the soundscapes of numerous hip-hop beats. The electronic layer of the piece heavily relies on a digital emulation of the bass drum circuit of TR-808.

DARN.

Performed in EARTH#SKY#SPACE festival in 22/06/18, Hannover.
Conducted by Andreas Felber. Vocalensemble der HMTMH.

Fall, leaves, fall
by Emily Bronte

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.

Fall Leaves Fall, for SSAA solo voices (2018)

Farewell, my sweet 9th floor...

"A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order." - Jean-Luc Goddard

New track from the album I am currently working on, enjoy!

Feast // Famine

Recorded December 2004 for Solo CD "Blaauw"

Isabel Mundry, Solo Auf Schwellen for double bell trumpet

Gleitend -Jieun Noh - LIVE recording (2017)

Claroscuro (2019) 

Performed by JACK Quartet

Recording and Mix by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie

Claroscuro (String Quartet)

Laura Barger and Alexandra LaMastra, piano
Anthony DeMartinis and Russell Greenberg, percussion
Reilly Spitzfaden, no-input mixer

Premiered at the Yarn/Wire Institute in the Staller Center Recital Hall at Stony Brook University on July 1, 2019

Notes on the instruments:

Percussion 1 plays a speaker hooked directly to a 9v battery. Touching a pair of contacts to various irregular pieces of metal or parts of the piano completes the circuit and makes crackling noises. 

Percussion 2 plays a megaphone by scraping various materials on the microphone and making feedback. 

The no-input mixer feeds back the outputs of a mixer to the inputs. Turning on various combinations of channels and adjusting the gain, EQ, pan, etc shapes the feedback.

'Ground Zero' (2014) - Cello & Live Electronics

Omar Peracha

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