Babel

Inter(re)actions I: Mass, composed 2010-2011 for 5 improvising musicians and SSATB soloists.  Written for real-time composition group Impulse:

Sarah Summar, violin
Paul Thomas, accordion
Ben Johansen, alto sax, cajon
Scott Price, electric guitar
Patrick Peringer, electric guitar

-with-

Soprano - Kathryn Summerset
Soprano - Jennifer Daniels
Alto - Tess Mattingly
Tenor - Ryan Pivovar
Bass - Aaron Harp

Recorded, Voertman Hall, University of North Texas, April 2011.

Inter(re)actions I: Mass

do we all dream?

Three movement electroacoustic/acousmatic work written 2010.

Program note:

Pipedreams is a collaboration between poet/writer Megan Robinson and myself in the spring of 2010.  It comprises three short movements in the forming a narrative of questions.  The imagery is meant to reflect ideas of reality and draws from sources such as C.S. Lewis, The Bible and The Matrix.  The spoken text is read by the poet.  


Pipedreams

Electroacoustic work, recorded 2006.

Sound sources are derived solely by mouth by Joshua Kalichman and Patrick Peringer.  
Only other effects are some light reverb and some EQ, the rest is the genius of our mouths.

Note:  Two-channel (mouth) live version has been performed on occasion by P.Peringer and J. Kalichman.

Mouth

Chorus.  Winner of the "Juan Bautista Comes" composition competition, 2005.  Performed in Segorbe, Spain, summer 2006.

(It was recorded in a large cathedral, which is why the reverb time is so long)

Veni Sancte Spiritus

Alto saxophone duo with fixed media.

Composed summer of 2005, Florence Italy.

Performed in Bryan Hall, Bowling Green State University by Jeff Heisler and Ryan Muncy.

Contrast

messin' around in Logic with a little piano thing I recorded one day.

WhisperCalling

A collaboration between Joshua Harris and myself.  Josh made the tape part first, then I created the guitar part.

Performed at Foet ex Machina concert in Denton, TX, at the Panhandle House Studio warehouse.  

Text is taken from the book of Ecclesiastes.

Ventriloquist

Inter(re)actions II: created is the second work of an ongoing compositional series that explores interaction.  The nature of the interaction changes between works and usually entails text/music, music/performer, performer/performer, and performer/space relationships.  Created is derived from the opening lines from the book of Genesis: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." (ESV)  It uses mobile (open) form to create indeterminacy for each performance.  There are eleven pages on eleven stands throughout the performance space; the page ordering changes with each performance.  Each page is based off a key word from the Genesis passage and is a graphic and sonic depiction of that word.  The eleven words are: created–heavens–chaos (without form)–void–darkness–deep–spirit–waters–the earth–over the (sur)face–in the beginning.  The performers create a unique path through the dispersed stands using each page as a unique inroad to interact with the other performers.  The final result is a work that is re-created with each performance.  

The original version was for saxophone quartet, this recording adapted for and performed by IMPULSE:

Sarah Summar: Violin
Paul Thomas: Accordion 
Benjamin Johansen: Alto Saxophone
Patrick Peringer: Electric Guitar

It was performed at the Foet et Machina concert in Denton TX, at the Panhandle House Studio warehouse, April 26, 2013.  

(note: the performers move around the warehouse, it is slightly evident in the panning)

Inter(re)actions II: created (IMPULSE version)

Composer, arranger, performer based in Denton, TX.  Loves the recorded medium, but also composing for live instruments.  You'll find an array of different sounds on my page.

thecomposinator

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