Posts Tagged ‘ Improvisation ’

“Sound Virus”

“Sound Virus” For Many Performers With Loud Sounds For car horns, trumpets, percussion, megaphones, trash cans, voice, etc. Four of the performers begin situated on the four opposing street corners of a major intersection. The intersection should be surrounded by similar streets and intersections – the street layout should be as grid-like as possible. The remaining performers should [ READ MORE ]

New RadioGamelan Page

On the eve of my second semester of grad school, I’ve created a page for the second of the pieces completed over break, RadioGamelan. The piece is for networked laptops, and is a blast to play. I plan on posting the software score (made in Max/MSP, using OSC to communicate over wi-fi), as well as [ READ MORE ]

David Collins, Steve Schlei, Greg Surges – 11.27.09

Pretty restrained and/or atmospheric. [ READ MORE ]

Live Coding w/ Chris Burns 12.11.2008 – Video Now Online

Just posted a video from a concert I did last year w/ Chris Burns. It’s live-coding (an improvised performance practice, in which performers program their instruments in concert), using Pure Data. This is the first set, using Vanilla PD. There’s a second set, using the NRCI networking library – don’t know if that one still [ READ MORE ]

Recording: David Collins and Greg Surges @ KSE 10-30-2009

Here are two recordings of improvisations by David Collins and myself. Recordings were made on a Tascam DR-07, with just a tiny bit of EQ after the fact. KSE-10-30-2009 One KSE-10-30-2009 Two [ READ MORE ]

Vinko Globokar – Reacting

I stumbled across an essay on using improvisation in composed works by the French composer Vinko Globokar. Here’s the link, from the IIMA. Globokar did a lot of work integrating improvisation/reactive situations into composed music. His piece Correspondences is a great example of this. I found this article just as I’ve been struggling with similar [ READ MORE ]

MiLO @ Vogel Hall, MKE

MiLO, the Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra, is playing at Milwaukee’s Vogel Hall next Wednesday, as part of the 2009 – 2010 Unruly Music concert series. What to expect: Aquatic films accompanied by an improvised sountrack Dueling saxophones on a backdrop of digital painting Original ensemble works by Steve [ READ MORE ]

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