Eclipse Invisible 1

When a feedback system is put into motion, every iteration of said system is not merely a repetition of itself. Every version of the system has been informed by the previous ones and will inform the ones to come. The idea of feedback is at the center of "not merely a repeating process," which was commissioned by Jack Thorpe and based on a series of no input mixing improvisations that where shared with Jack to trigger a reaction and start a collaborative process/feedback system that produced the seed material for this piece. Said material was then submitted to various self-similar processes and to a process of degradation that intends to formally represent a system that has gone through several iterations.


Jack Thorpe, alto saxophone

not merely a repeating process [alto sax + live electronics]

Los ánimos descompuestos (2016)
Commissioned by Festival Cervantino
Written for and premiered by Sigma Project

Los ánimos descompuestos (2016) For Sax Quartet _SIGMA Project @ UNM

for string quartet [2016-19]
Performed by the JACK Quartet [https://jackquartet.com]
Commissioned by the Westdeutschen Rundfunks for the JACK Quartet and the Wittener Tage fur neue Kammermusik

This is a performance of the second half of the piece. The first part was written after this performance. The JACK Quartet & I are actively looking for opportunities to premiere the finished piece. Contact me if you have the means & the interest in programming this 60-minute quartet.

More info here: https://www.timothy-mccormack.com/yourbodyisavolume

your body is a volume [excerpt]

Permeable, for solo flute.
Wilfrido Terrazas, flute.
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
UC San DIego.
La Jolla, US

Recording by David Espíritu

Permeable (2015) / for flute _Wilfrido Terrazas

excerpt from recording session at Guebwiller cathedral, France
May 2023

with Ensemble Proton

Ingo Schmidt-Lucas, sound engineer

Curva Triangulus (2018/21) excerpt

:dreamin/gField (1997-99; rev. 2019) US premiere
~bendin/gthememoryoftime (version for bassoon, 2019) WP

Ten dissonant drones. Ten harmonic cadences. With a braided circular melodic bundle on top of that. All this punctuated by three unified gestures to mark the midpoint, the Golden Section, and the end. A bassoon with electronic sympathetic drone strings solos over the top of everything.

Northwestern Contemporary Music Ensemble (concert performance 2019-03-08)
Ben Bolter, conductor
Ben Roidl-Ward, solo bassoon

:dreamin/gField & ~bendin/gthememoryoftime—CME/Ben Bolter & Ben Roidl-Ward—2019.03.08—Concert

the body is [a] great wanting (2019) 

Written for the 2019 Dal Niente Residency at Northwestern University. Performed by Constance Volk (bass flute), Katie Schoepflin(bass clarinet) and Ben Melsky (harp).

not merely a repeating process [alto sax + live electronics]

Carlos Zárate

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