Gradations

This is an excerpt from my theatre piece Spectra for voice, cello, vibraphone, electronics, and lighting. I think it gives a good impression of the space that the piece evokes. It was recorded in rehearsal in November of last year in preparation for the performance last December. I am anxious to work on this piece more, do some performances, and get some good documentation. I think Anne, Nathan, and Bill, sound really great in this excerpt. Comments are most welcome.

Video of the second piece I performed yesterday at The Hartford Phase Shift at La Paloma Sabanera. First piece is here: http://youtu.be/ZL8-nRrDdIM Thanks to Ben Klein for organizing the show and thanks to Lou Guarino for videoing the pieces. This is some of the music that I will be touring with Broadcloth in June and I am looking forward to developing the music more and hopefully releasing some of it as an EP or something like that.

The pieces all utilize live sampling of the bass. For each piece I program ambient/textural and melodic structures into a custom program written in SuperCollider. I can then sample live sounds and input them into the structure. So there are no pre-recorded sounds used. Everything is built up live. I was also able to set up the program so that I could just hit a key sequence (like Cmd-Alt-1) to choose which piece I was going to perform. I like this because I want to keep my interactions with the computer to a minimum and focus on the instrument and the pedalboard. Comments are welcome.