Welcome to the Fall 2011 semester.
The next Annual Annex Group Concert is Friday, 20 April 2012 at 8 p.m. in the NIU Music Building’s Recital Hall. Details and more concert announcements coming soon.
OK, now here’s the ST51
This is my 60×60 submission. It was made using mic pre-amp test recordings, discarded MIDI sequences, and lots of bitcrushing.
Ok, now here’s the ST51
Nathan Edwards
(photo from bostonguitar.com)
Paino & One sound
Paino
old stereo version of canned piece featuring piano and looped found sounds arranged in protools. The piece will feature live 8 channel diffusion. it can be heard at this link because it is over 2MB
http://www.myspace.com/alexbeachmusic
One sound
which i have yet to record is a partially planned improvisation featuring electric guitar recorded and looped, and fed through filters and effects in Max/msp
i would be happy to perform either one not necessarily both, of course
Alex Beach
Signs by Lizzie. Piece for April 23rd Gig
As a composer I created something very unique, and this being my 1st real concrete piece I think I did an excellent job. After listening to the piece, I want my audience to feel as if I am taking them into my world, and bringing them out. I want them to gain a feeling of being alone with nothing but signs around, and trying to escape from them. This is a fixed media piece from Pro Tools LE, I used various unique sounds that I recorded and synthesized and combined into one concrete piece.
Self Help by Scott Potter
Self Help (excerpt) is a piece centered around a spoken self-hypnosis/self-help track. The stress of the repeating tones increases with layers as the male hypnotist attempts to bring us to a tranquil place (and maybe he does…). The work uses cello and piano samples, a circuit bent children’s book sound strip run through a delay and looper, a circuit bent Speak &Math toy, and a contact microphone.
The Human Body
The Human Body is an exploration of the living, active body. Designed using only Jasuto Pro for iPhone 3.0 and Max/MSP for Mac OS X, it is a unique journey through the innards of our active biology.
Albert Contreras 
fRICshen by Jim Phelps
fRICshen, for Rickenbacker 370 12-string electric guitar and electronics
The title refers to three things: friction (the obvious), the guitar for which it is written (RIC is a common “short” for Rickenbacker) and an essence of spirit (my interpretation of the Chinese word “shen”). The friction presents itself in two ways: juxtaposition of dramatically different musical sensibilities; the friction between the quintessential sound/performance style one might expect representing this particular guitar (for those who know something about this instrument and its glorious history) but which is not invoked in this piece, and the non-quintessential sound and style that is actually presented.
Black Allegheny by Evan X. Merz
Black Allegheny by Evan X. Merz
Black Allegheny is a meditation on the Allegheny Mountains in the winter. The Allegheny Mountains are a range in the Appalachian Mountains that runs through West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. This piece was written with a vision of the rolling, snow-covered Alleghenies in the Pittsburgh area.
Black Allegheny was assembled using swarm processes. For each section of the piece, sounds were organized on cartesian graphs. Then a virtual swarm was allowed to walk over each graph, triggering sounds as it crawled around.