The solo for for fizzing powder, glass, computer, tablets, paper, voice, metal pieces, strings, field recordings, objects, and four live-played loudspeakers consists of five movements or scenes, whose microstructure and parameters vary in each performance and are adapted to the acoustics of the space. As a result, each concert becomes a unique, distinctive version of the composition.
Scenes, sound material and technology:
1
Field recordings: schoolyard, playground, busy street
MaxMSP, Spear: Ambisonics, spectral sound analyses, and sine wave reconstructions, among others
Controllers: TouchOSC and foot controller/Arduino (XY and rotary sensors)
2
MaxMSP: spectral freezing, sine wave reconstructions, and microtonal shifts
Live sculpture: liqueur glass, water, bow
Controllers: TouchOSC and foot controller/Arduino (XY and rotary sensors)
3
Field recordings: Flight to New York, stairwell, flagpole with a broken flag mount fluttering in the wind
MaxMSP: spectral freezing, live recording, etc.
Live sculpture: sheet metal and iron plates, microphones, bows, sticks
Controllers: TouchOSC and foot controller/Arduino (XY and rotary sensors)
4
Samples: red and yellow fizzing powder, dissolved in water droplets
Live sculpture: red fizzing powder, pipette, microphone, voice, paper bowed with a bicycle inner tube, screws, swivels, plastic caterpillar, steel wool, etc.
MaxMSP: live recording, spectral freezing, sawtooth oscillator, sine wave oscillators, etc.
Controllers: TouchOSC and foot controller/Arduino (XY and rotary sensors)
5
Field recording: Garden in front of the caretaker’s apartment at a city palace in Munich/Pasing
Live sculpture: String on a plank, viola bow, contact microphone, curved metal sheet, condenser microphones
MaxMSP: spectral freezing, sine wave generators, tape
Controllers: TouchOSC and foot controller/Arduino (XY and rotary sensors)
This project was supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt Berlin as part of the “Recherchestipendium Ernste Musik und Klangkunst” grant.
(This page is still under construction—more information will follow. You are welcome to contact me regarding performance requests, further information, or documentation material.)