Assistant Professor, School of Music, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Composing’s one thing, performing’s another, listening’s a third. What can they have to do with each other?” —John Cage
My music creates new connections among composers, performers, and listeners, using extended notation and new technology to experiment with the ways in which music is created, performed, and heard. My works range from traditional concert performances to mass-audience participation environments to online collaborative music tools to software art.
My Piano Etudes will be broadcast on public radio's classical music show, Performance Today, on January 15, 2010. The broadcast is of a performance by pianist Jenny Lin at Spivey Hall in Atlanta. Airing times vary with different public radio stations; check your local listings. Or you can also listen to the program at your convenience online. Click on the "listen" link for Hour 2 of the program; this piece starts about 32 minutes into the hour. The online stream is only available through January 22, 2010.) Happy listening!
I recently wrote a chapter on storage in networked art (and particularly in networked music) for Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art). The book is available freely online, and wiki-style contributions to extend the texts are encouraged. The book, which was created by Turbulence, NewMediaFix, Telic Arts Exchange, and Freewaves, was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Happy reading!
Piano Etudes was a jury selection for the 2009 Concours Internationaux de Bourges, an international competition in electroacoustic music and electronic arts. More info…
Inspired by the tradition of open-form musical scores, I composed each of these four piano etudes as a collection of short musical fragments with links to connect them. In performance, the pianist must use those links to jump from fragment to fragment, creating her own unique version of the composition.
The pianist, though, should not have all the fun. So I also developed this web site, where you can create your own version of each etude, download it as an audio file or a printable score, and share it with others. In concert, pianists may make up their own version of each etude, or they may select a version created by a web visitor.
I'm excited to launch the Piano Etudes web site and hope you enjoy it!
As part of my residency at iSAW in Miami, I developed (with help from Mark Godfrey) Sound Microscope, a simple web application for iSAW's educational outreach programs which explores the inner lives of sounds. The pan-and-zoom interface lets students isolate small fragments in the time and frequency space of a looping sound file, focusing on the structural subtleties and details they might not notice when hearing the entire sound. You can try out Sound Microscope yourself at iSAW's web site.
I was recently interviewed for a podcast series from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and KadmusArts: you can listen to it here.
I'm pleased to announce the release of the Flock Vision Toolkit, a free set of computer vision objects for Cycling '74's Max / MSP / Jitter multimedia development environment. For more information and to download, please visit the Flock web site and click on the "software" link.
Flock, my new evening-length work for saxophone quartet, video, and audience participation, recently premiered at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami on December 6, 7, and 8, 2007, during the Art | Basel | Miami Beach festival. Video clips of the performance, along with other documentation, are now available online. More...
Helen Thorington recently interviewed me for the Networked Music Review, a new research blog that is highly recommended reading in general. If you want to learn more about my ideas, background, and recent and current projects, the interview is a great place to start.
Graph Theory seeks to connect composition, listening, and concert performance by coupling an acoustic work for solo violin to an interactive web site. On the web site, users navigate among sixty-one short, looping musical fragments to create their own unique path through the composition.
The navigation choices which users make affect future concert performances of the work. Before each performance, the soloist prints out a new copy of the score from the web site. That score presents her with a fixed path through the piece; the order of the fragments is influenced by the decisions that recent web site visitors have made.
Thanks to the generosity of Angel.com,
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Etude #1: Shakespeare Cuisinart is now celebrating its sixth year of operation.
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