premiered at lunita loft in gowanus, bk by diaphanous ensemble.

vlns: che buford & aimée niemann 
vla: abby swidler 
cello: kirin mcelwain

let a new earth rise. let another world be born. let a bloody peace be written in the sky

Composed by Aimée Niemann

premiered at lunita loft in gowanus, bk by diaphanous ensemble.
Aug 2023

vlns: che buford & aimée niemann 
vla: abby swidler 
cello: kirin mcelwain

Petrichor

Composed by Che Buford

premiered at lunita loft in gowanus, bk by diaphanous ensemble.
Aug 2023

vlns: che buford & aimée niemann 
vla: abby swidler 
cello: kirin mcelwain

Composed by Abby Swidler

premiered at lunita loft in gowanus, bk by diaphanous ensemble.
Aug 2023

vlns: che buford & aimée niemann 
vla: abby swidler 
cello: kirin mcelwain

(prayer) 4 bodies

Improvised music with the group "Fathoms"
Daniel Pencer - Saxophone
Borey Shin - Piano
Abby Swidler - Violin
Henry Fraser - Bass
Ethan Parcell - Drums

Soundings In Fathoms

Space for Solo violin/ "Luminary"
composed by Abby Swidler
Graduate Recital
Live at New England Conservatory- Brown Hall May 6, 2014

Space- For Solo Violin/ Luminary

A cover of the theme to Metti Una Sera A Cena, as composed my ennio morricone, performed by tredici bacci! 
Tredici Bacci take's to credit for recording this hot ass track, nor do we plan to make any money off it this recording of it. We do however, readily profess our love for the maestro!

Metti Una Sera A Cena

From the album 'The Unlearning', performed by Theresa Wong (cello, voice) and Carla Kihlstedt (violin, voice).

Everything Is Topsy-Turvy

Destiny

Du.0 (Charlottle Munn-Wood + Aimée Niemann)

Fantasy On Item De Virginibus  (Hildegard Von Bingen)

A piece of music written for a documentary film about an installation at MIT's Media Lab.

From their Vimeo Page: (http://vimeo.com/67177328)

The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.

The primary structure was created of 26 polygonal panels made of silk threads laid down by a CNC (Computer-Numerically Controlled) machine. Inspired by the silkworm’s ability to generate a 3D cocoon out of a single multi-property silk thread (1km in length), the overall geometry of the pavilion was created using an algorithm that assigns a single continuous thread across patches providing various degrees of density.

Overall density variation was informed by the silkworm itself deployed as a biological “printer” in the creation of a secondary structure. A swarm of 6,500 silkworms was positioned at the bottom rim of the scaffold spinning flat non-woven silk patches as they locally reinforced the gaps across CNC-deposited silk fibers. Following their pupation stage the silkworms were removed. Resulting moths can produce 1.5 million eggs with the potential of constructing up to 250 additional pavilions.

Affected by spatial and environmental conditions including geometrical density as well as variation in natural light and heat, the silkworms were found to migrate to darker and denser areas. Desired light effects informed variations in material organization across the surface area of the structure. A season-specific sun path diagram mapping solar trajectories in space dictated the location, size and density of apertures within the structure in order to lock-in rays of natural light entering the pavilion from South and East elevations. The central oculus is located against the East elevation and may be used as a sun-clock.

Parallel basic research explored the use of silkworms as entities that can “compute” material organization based on external performance criteria. Specifically, we explored the formation of non-woven fiber structures generated by the silkworms as a computational schema for determining shape and material optimization of fiber-based surface structures.

Research and Design by the Mediated Matter Research Group at the MIT Media Lab in collaboration with Prof. Fiorenzo Omenetto (TUFTS University) and Dr. James Weaver (WYSS Institute, Harvard University). Mediated Matter researchers include Markus Kayser, Jared Laucks, Carlos David Gonzalez Uribe, Jorge Duro-Royo and Neri Oxman (Director).


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