Stochastic synthesis is a microsound synthesis technique invented by Iannis Xenakis that uses stochastic processes to create and vary waveforms. I composed all the sounds in this piece using my own extensions to Xenakis's stochastic synthesis algorithms that I have been developing for the last 20 years in the programming languages SuperCollider and C. No samples were used.

It Is Happening Again for computer-generated sound

Yggdrasil
String Quartet No. 2 (2014-16)
Mivos Quartet

Yggdrasil

Klavierstück V, "Nachklang" (2018)
Yumi Suehiro, piano

Klavierstueck V

For Bass Clarinet and Electronics
Bass Clarinet: Emily Cook | Electronics: Luis Delgado
Artist in Residence Program
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pittsburgh

Bitácora de un viaje al vacío; Travels to the void, a logbook (2023)

for flute, clarinet, accordion, violin, viola, cello, double bass and live electronics
2023

performed by Schallfeld ensemble
Dmitri Kourliandski, electronics

23.07.2023, Impuls festival, MUMUTH Graz, Austria

Banlieue

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]

Underscoring this year’s curatorial focus, Curating in the Digital Age, we are thrilled to welcome longstanding exhibitor, Steven Sacks, owner and director of the New York-based gallery, bitforms, in conversation with exhibiting artist, Manfred Mohr. Mohr utilizes algorithms to engage rational aesthetics, inviting logic to produce visual outcomes. Not only exhibiting within the booth, the artist and bitforms will present the Special Project of his Early Plotter Drawings, highlighting a selection of Mohr’s earliest computer-generated plotter drawings.

Episode 77: Curating in the Digital Age - Steven Sacks in conversation with Manfred Mohr

Zeig mir wie Du nicht bist! - für Violine solo

Aufnahme im November 2014 in München

Violine: Severin Van Schmid

Die Video-Tanz-Performance mit den Instrumentalsoli der Reihe Zeig mir wie du nicht bist! startet mit Fragen nach der eigenen Identität. So ergeben sich, aus meinen Erfahrungen, Antworten darauf, durch das Erleben von Identitäts-darstellungen und -wünschen, die Außenstehende bisweilen als Schauspiel empfinden. "… und ich sag mir, wer ich bin."

not alike - for violin solo

Støj

Obra estrenada en el Festival Visiones Sonoras XIV, en Morelia, México.

Ramificacion I

Obra hecha en una residencia artística por parte del CMMAS

not alike - for violin solo

Tobias Fandel

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