I spent spring break in New York working on an installation project. Similar in concept to an earlier piece, A440, but should be very different and hopefully a tiny bit more interesting. Thanks to Dustin and Shrage for helping out with the shooting… about 100 shots in two days.
The video below is not part of [...]
had a mix assignment due today… i used those things (above)… it’s a pop song… you might disagree… busy… slept for 3 hours… smell interesting… listen… headphones… holes.
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Also, I realize that this here blurrg has veered a bit to the self indulgent side as I’ve become busy, but I’ll [...]
I finished this piece last semester and have been reluctant to post it because it’s a 6 channel piece that really should be experienced in a surround sound setup… but I had to do a stereo mixdown to submit it to some festivals so I’ll put it up here too. It is an Acousmatic piece.
Also, [...]
This is a really quick little jingle I did tonight for our first project for the class The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool. Made from sounds recorded during a little free improv sesh in class… trumpet, piano, guitar, flute, and drum sticks on bottle I believe were the sound sources.
I haven’t been doing a [...]
Audio Visual Etude # 2
I’m taking a class right now with Dennis Miller, a composer and animator who is a visiting professor at Brown this semester. The class is called Sound and Image and the focus is on creating integrated audio-visual video pieces based on musical forms. Here is a little experiment I did for [...]
finally…
One of my friends just released his debut solo album and it’s dirty good. Erik is a drummer, guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, bassist, computerist and a huge jackass for not dropping this on us earlier. Erik plays guitar for NOMO and has also worked with a ton of other great mid-west artists in the past few [...]
For a while I had a tough time embracing John Cage. He is studied extensively in music composition courses, and his work is influential in literature, visual arts, and modern art theory so I feel like I know the guy personally (he died in 1992). Last semester was no exception… I took four courses and [...]