The tour page has been updated to include the latest equipment purchased for the program over the summer.
These additions include Intel Mac Pro computers, dual 23″ widescreen cinema displays, 25 and 49-key M-Audio Axiom MIDI controllers, and new software including Logic and Final Cut.
We have also been updated to the latest Pro Tools LE system, which includes the Digi-003 hardware unit with Pro Tools 8 software.
The music and video in this piece were generated by a java program that I recently coded. The software uses some concepts borrowed from John Cage, but updates them with modern AI techniques. Specifically, I use Cage’s gamut, graph and chance techniques, as they were used in the third movement of the piano concerto, and after. Instead of using pure chance, however, I use artificial intelligence to control how the voices move around the graph. Swarm intelligence techniques allow each voice to follow other voices, or move away from them.
Our concert, titled “Electrics”, will be this Friday, April 24, at 8 PM in the recital hall at NIU.
We are excited to have a very strong group of compositions, which will include multi-channel audio and a piece utilizing a human-interactive interface. A preview of the submissions are in the posts below. Don’t miss it!
“Infidel Hymn No. 2” is a spiritual interactive music and video. The primary purpose of this spiritual work is to reveal the “light of truth and peace.” Thus, the audience can come to worship the performer/composer, to submit to him, and to believe that he is a last prophet and the perfect example of all mankind. There is no compulsion in worship. Truth is henceforth distinct from error. The believers, worshipers, and those who appreciate this perfect work will be safe in the hereafter. But for those ignorant disbelievers, they will face an inquisition in this life, and a painful doom in hereafter! God is forgiving and merciful. Lo! But God does not like those who ask too many questions. Nobody expects the (Spanish, Moorish, Roman, Arab, Japanese, or whatever) Inquisitions!
Technical Note: The audio part is programmed in Csound. The paranormal video part is miraculously programmed (patched) in an extraordinary (CPU hog) Max/Jitter.
This paranormal work needs to perform live. Anyway, you can click below to listen to music.
Length is ca. 7:13. Date of revelation: 2008 - 2009
“Ninth Dear Month”, music on CD for stereo dispersion. Please see Works page for program notes and audio link.
Length is ca. 9:30. Date of composition: 2008
My second submission is a 5:37 piece entitled “Unibrow.”
Program Notes: This piece was written in homage to those with a confluence of eyebrows. Thanks to Steve Marek for his electric bass writing and performance on this piece.
Here’s a url to download a zipped .aiff file of “Unibrow”:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yynwhndloe0
My first submission is a 3:12 piece entitled A Mousey Mermaid Montage. I was thinking that since most of my pieces are relatively short (6:00 and under), that the committee would consider putting two of my pieces on the program, if time allows.
Program Notes: This piece describes a day as a creature that is half mouse and half mermaid.
Here’s a link to download a zipped .aif file of the piece:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mymrm02kdy4
