Performed, recorded, and edited by Gleb Kanasevich.

Two Pieces for Bass Clarinet and Gameboy [2021]

Banjo Piece is a composition for tenor banjo and various supplements. A laptop supplies sine tones that are played through a tactile transducer on the head of the banjo. The transducer functions like a speaker driver, and the banjo itself becomes an (imperfect) speaker cone – producing unpredictable and noisy renditions of the sine tones being played through it.  

You will hear four distinct sections in this piece. The first section consists entirely of the acoustic sounds of the banjo. The second section introduces sine waves through the transducer on the body of the banjo. The third section introduces a new but timbrally related sound source. The final section layers these materials, eventually returning to the bare acoustic sounds of the banjo.

Banjo Piece [2023]

For the last four years I have been grappling with a concept I encountered in the writing of Donna Haraway, the Speaker for the Dead. This sci-fi notion imagines possibilities of holding memories and “collecting up the stories for those left behind.” For me, engagement with Haraway led to a practice of using obsolete sound technologies and exploring how performers and listeners act as Speakers for the Dead. In this piece written for Hypercube, the phrase takes on a secondary meaning. A low-fidelity Casio SK-1 sampler featured in the work acts itself as Speaker for the Dead, collecting individual sounds of the ensemble until it is left behind.

Written for and performed by Hypercube- Erin Rogers, Jay Sorce, Andrea Lodge, and Chris Graham.

Speaker for the Dead [2023]

Music composed to accompany a dance work of the same name by Mary Sigward. Premiered at Seattle International Dance Festival, 6/16/2024. 

Bass performed by Scott Allen Miller. Electronics realized by Charles Rudig. 

Title taken by Sigward from A Carafe, that is a Blind Glass by Gertrude Stein. 

Accompanying photo edited from an image created by Jim Coleman.

an arrangement in a system to pointing [2024]

Leszek Lorent: Percussion. Radziejowice, Poland. Text from Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway

World Without End (After Donna Haraway) [2015]

Duo for Cello and Piano. Written for and performed by Yuval Shapira and Nan-Cheng Chen 2017.

05-16-2017

Interlude [2017]

The second section of my evening length piece Fractio Panis for solo performer. Folding chair, putty knife, and contact microphone/amplification. Performed by Charles Rudig at the CUNY Graduate Center winter 2018.

Fractio Panis II/V [2018]

The first section of my evening length piece Fractio Panis for solo performer. Gameboy and processing via Pure Data. Performed by Charles Rudig at the CUNY Graduate Center fall 2017.

Fractio Panis I/V [2018]

Performed by Mivos Quartet and Charles Rudig. Scored for String Quartet, Transducers, Objects, Sine Waves. Premiered March 14 2018. Recorded & mixed by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie. Image by Manny Hernandez.

OVERTOW [2018]

Performed by Charles Rudig at CUNY Graduate Center Spring 2018. Pure data and Objects.

FRACTIO PANIS III/V

Jack Quartet. 2019. String Quartet, Transducers, Sine Waves, Objects

Three Chords [2019]

Composer/Performer/Researcher living in Brooklyn.

I post my concert music (pieces with scores) on this soundcloud. Scoreless projects (noise, free improvisation, etc.) are posted on my bandcamp at http://rudigca.bandcamp.com
My personal website is
http://charlesrudig.com

Charles Rudig

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