[Electronic] Touching - Summer 2011
The title of this piece refers to physical contact rather than the adjectival homonym. Composed with recordings of touching, leading to rubbing, leading to striking of surfaces and objects. Every object has a resonance and every resonance is an object. Heard on the October 13th, 2011 Oberlin Composition & TIMARA Departments Concert of Student Works.
The Zoo - Spring 2011
An idea of what it may sound or feel like to be inside the cage. Heard on the April 20th, 2011 Oberlin Composition & TIMARA Departments Concert of Student Works.
Moments - Fall 2010
This piece consists of a grouping of diverse natural and electronically-generated textures, held together by their similarities and differences, each contributing in different ways to the overall trajectory of their collective form. Pitch develops from noise, containment gives way to chaos, and the sound of the human voice evolves as these auditory moments circulate against one another. Heard on the December 1st, 2010 Oberlin Composition & TIMARA Departments Concert of Student Works, won the SEAMUS 2011 Allen Strange Undergraduate Award for Excellence and was programmed on ICMC 2011.
Collage 3 - Spring 2010
This piece was made with recordings of natural sounds that have all been computer-manipulated, at times stripping them of their inherent rhythm, pitch, sense of space and context, but never entirely. When working with the computer-manipulated sounds I treated them as though they were natural, using their transformed, computer-generated characteristics the same way that I would a natural recording’s.
I See The City - Fall 2009
In this piece I utilize the Latin phrase "Video Urbem" (pronounced "Wi-deh-oh Ur-bem" and meaning "I see the city") as both source material and subject. Travel, be it purposeful exploration or forced abduction, and the resulting effect of familiarity or detachment is explored through changes in content, timbre, and atmosphere. This piece was heard on the December 3rd, 2009 Oberlin Composition & TIMARA Departments Concert of Student Works.
Collage 2 - Summer 2009
This piece was made mostly using recordings of a headphone adapter rolling on many different surfaces- the tops of tables, the bottoms of turned over trash cans, cookie sheets, the insides of pot lids, etc. Once the recordings were made, the same headphone adapter that created the sounds was used by me to listen to the sounds, manipulate them, and to eventually create this piece. This piece was heard on the September 30th, 2009 Oberlin Composition & TIMARA Departments Concert of Student Works.
Collage - Summer 2009
My first acousmatic piece made using explicitly self-recorded sounds from inside and outside of my house. The piece has 4 sections, each of which both contrasts and blends in some ways with the others.
Stream Collage - Summer 2009
Short piece made using recordings gathered from a trip to New Jersey and Boston. Sounds of a stream are spatialized, modified, and juxtaposed with other sounds.
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[Acoustic] Piece for Four Strings in Three Movements - Fall 2011
Written for Dr. John O'Brien's Greenville, North Carolina "Music House" concert series. Performed on the Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 concert. Rachel Harmatuk, violin, Craig Kirkland, viola, Brent Selby, cello, Andrew Small, double bass.
On a Failed Method for Mending Transformations - Fall 2011
Written for Oberlin's SCI ensemble III. Performed on the Saturday, December 20th concert. Helen Park, flute, Zach Good, clarinet, Derek Dube, tuba, Ben Rempel, percussion, Carrie Frey, viola, Will Robbins, double bass.
String Quartet 0 - Fall 2011
Written for Daniel Tacke's COMP 350 class. First 2 movements performed on the Wednesday, November 30th student chamber music concert in Kulas Recital Hall. Myra Hynrichs and Francesca Fetten, violin, Carrie Frey, viola, Helen Newby, cello.
Serration - Spring 2011
Written for Oberlin Conservatory's Composition 204 class. Annie Gordon, piccolo, Kevin Dee, guitar, William Eisenberg, horn.
Effort at Speech Between Two People - Spring 2011
Setting of Muriel Rukeyser's poem "Effort at Speech Between Two People" for soprano voice and piano quartet. Performed on the May 5th, 2011 Oberlin Composition & TIMARA Departments Concert of Student Works. Jessica Downs, soprano, Alana Youssefian, violin, Carrie Frey, viola, Jocelyn Schendel, cello, Eugene Kim, piano.
21/78/1 - Spring 2011
Written for Oberlin Conservatory's Composition 204 class. Performed by Annie Gordon. Title comes from the ratio of Oxygen, Nitrogen, and "Other" in air that is inhaled. Annie Gordon, flute.
Repel - Fall 2009
Written for Oberlin Conservatory's Composition 202 class. Performed by Lauren Good, flute, Bud Stracker, cello, Eugene Kim, piano.
SICPP Electronic Music Workshop Improvisation - Summer 2010
Performed on the Iditarod concert of New England Conservatory's Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, 2010. Performed by Ceceilia Allwin, soprano, Zach Herchen, saxophone, Jonah Kappraff, trumpet, Valerie Ross and Jocelyn Ho, piano, and Ryan Krause, percussion with live electronics by Eli Stine; directed by Scott Deal. |