blown away by Y2K

This sound piece dates from the year 2000; every sound you will hear comes from the human voice. I recorded myself and my mother reading Polish and English translations of Pierre Ronsard's "Sonnet to Helen", as well as the original French. In this work I wanted to discover traces of the unique characteristics of our voices as we spoke in different languages, with more or less of an accent--traces that would survive digital processing.

                              

trace

This 2002 piece was featured on the DISContact! III competition release. Kim Cascone spent a month at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) developing a sound library based on software bugs. He distributed the samples to the microsound community, inviting members to create short pieces from the sound patterns and loops he created. I molded the audio samples into what I imagined was the whispering of my computer, declining to mask any hisses, clicks, and pops that were part of the sounds.

soft

Cinder blocks and ripped duct tape form the sounds for this noisy composition from 2001.

patient

Sound piece baed on field recording from an artist's walk I did through the State University of New York a Buffalo campus, about how the way we move through space determines our identity. Date of composition circa 1999.

movement through space

A meditation on materials. Various objects were scraped, scratched, and recorded in this minimal track. Circa 1999.

materials

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