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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Zucchini Marmalade
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
A diverse group of pieces and great turnout made for another big success at the Annex computer music concert. Our Graduate Assistant Evan Merz organized the event, which featured special guests Mark Popowitch and Michael Taylor. Other featured composers and/or performers included Natee Prasanpanich, Robert Anderson, Conor Mackey, Tim Moyers, Peter Veugeler, Kenneth Joseph, Aaron [...]
The Fall Annex Group Computer Music concert is approaching, and it looks to be a packed show.
It is on Thursday, November 5 at 8pm in the Northern Illinois University Recital Hall. Don’t miss it!
A group of students from the NIUCMS program visited Sweetwater for the SEAMUS 2009 event last summer. Both myself (Nathan Edwards) and Evan Merz were mentioned in the recent SEAMUS newsletter for our blogs about the event. Here are the direct links to my posts:
Intro
Tesla Coil Music (Including YouTube vids)
Displaced Resonance
WOUWHI Dance Interface
Oberlin Contemporary Music [...]
