(de)construction
1998
This song was written at Mills College for my senior thesis concert. It involves the sounds of a Moog modular and many contact mics and a quadraverb FX box. The recordings include piano strings, keys being shaken, a washing machine and bed springs as somebody jumped on them.
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Bitter Day
2000
Your festivals will turn into mourning
And all your songs into lamentation;
It will be like a time of mourning for an only daughter,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.
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Chaos Patch
2000
A chaos patch is formed by taking three oscilators and plugging the output of one into the FM input of the next, so as to create an FM loop. Then one of the sound outputs goes to modulate a low pass filter, another a high pass filter and the last one is audio input to the filter chain. The results are unpredicatable and chaotic.
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Choral No. 1
2000
My thesis advisor told me that to create music, I would need to know counterpoint.
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December
2000
This contains sounds from a MOTM Modular Synth, a Moog Tarus II, an Evenfall Minimodular and a “guitar” made out of some wood and a fiberglass lampshade. The guitar was contact miced and run through an Alesis Midiverb II, which also processed some synth sounds.
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Drum Decay
2001
This piece uses a feedback loop like the one Alvin Lucier used in I am sitting in a Room. The drums sounds were generated with Rebirth software and then processed via a MAX/MSP application, a bass amplifier and a microphone. The results of that were processed with Sound Hack and then remixed in Pro-tools.
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Headerless Data No.1
2001
I created a Photoshop document and put an AIFF header on it, then converted the AIFF to mp3. Any structure this appears to have is either because of the way Photoshop stores layers, or because of nice mosiac tiling I put on the image.
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Leftovers
1997
This song was written at Mills College for my thesis concert. The sounds in it were originally generated for my Electronic Music class and later mixed into one song. The “leftover” sounds were created mostly between the hours of midnight and 8:00AM becuase it was easier to get studio time then.
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Monopoly Capitalism
2000
I was at the world’s largest chain of copy mats when the guy standing next to me was busily copying an article called “Monkeys and Monopoly Capitalism.” I got to thinking about how monkeys follow supply and demand. And about religion and the Wall Street Journal. But mostly about a neglected MAX patch that wanted to be recorded.
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Phase
2001
Three simultaneous instances of the same loop, cut to different lengths.
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