Program Notes:
Listen for the subtle,  short, interrupted sine waves within electronics that cause the speakers themselves to emit ‘pops’ and
crackles, interrupting the acoustic instruments and tape playback. We’re not hearing the sine wave but rather the effect of the sine wave on the speaker’s mechanics turning the speaker itself into an acoustic element; thus giving these objects an active role rather than accepting them as a passive (playback) tool. Usually this treatment is avoided and seen as a mistake but in this piece it functions to address the physical mechanics of the speaker, of its own body, and demanding it to become more. To add to this, the percussionists are playing custom made “speaker-instruments:” subwoofer speaker cones transformed into an open air (and in a sense, large contact) microphone. This configuration allows the percussionist to physically perform low resonant tones and high washes of live filtered noise not possible outside this setup, with the hope to merge electronic and acoustic instruments into one composite organism, dependent on this merging to become more than just an extension of itself. The live processing portion of the work is that of rapid panning of the live acoustic instruments between two stereo speakers. This panning reaches audio rates and thus from this rapid oscillation causes its own square wave-like tone: the electronics sounds blooming from the acoustic in a symbiotic, intertwined creature like lichen.
This piece engulfs two prior pieces of mine that I’ve been working on for the past few years, “Harbinger” and “Speaker Spit.”

Instrumentation: Amplified vln, vc, piccolo, trumpet, e. gtr, midikeys, b-flat clarinet and live processing

Premiered and Performed by Nadar Ensemble
Mastered by Murat Colak
Mixed by Kelley Sheehan

Creature Like Lichen (2022)for chamber ensemble

freedom

Put the world in my bomb
it’s you and me now
i didn’t really want to
but they made me
im a fool
Bit by bit the tears fall
Pouring from my optics
A deal with Death

Love is something / Alison

Talking to the stained wall
loves a harmless gun
you the only one
With the power to hurt me 
bit by bit I break down
feel the same around
same part of town
but now you are with me
everyday feels so long 
then i see you looking
i know what you’re thinking
and i’m alright for now
can we go home

Love is something / Alison

Adam Targove - Alison

reference trapdoor.

tracklist:
On The Run - Moodymann
One Twenty Three (Original Mix) - Delano Smith
Horatio Luna "Boom Boom" - Music Is My Sanctuary
What Lies Beneath (Nightcrawlers EP) - Glenn Scott
Trac 45 - Omar S
Dee's Gruv - Delano Smith
Special - Peven Everett
Deep -N- Dirty - Rick Wade
Fright Night - Delroy Edwards
Dance Of Nubia - 3 Chairs
Green Piece - Fatherhood

Slam Calls (Nov 22, 2022)

Peak Americana / Sian Nevenicola

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