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On April 17th, 2022 electronic musical instrument visionary Don Buchla would have turned 85. In celebration, and as an expression of gratitude, for the rich legacy of his pioneering work, 85 is a quadraphonic composition for theremin, tape-loop and Buchla format modular instruments. Here is a stereo mix of the composition.
Composition with accompanying visual performance composed for Toronto-based Frequency Freaks July 2021 workshop.
Design for installation exploring themes of conservation, transmutation and exposure in relation to the erosion of Prince Edward Island. Featuring custom built light-soundhouses, novel spatialisation, projection and sound. Proof of concept stereo demo below.
Composed as the result of a 48-hour composition challenge presented by CESSA (Concordia Electroacoustic Studies Student Association) between October 16 and 18, 2020. Released digitally.
Participants set out to capture a moment of an EAST student’s group Zoom call and recycle it as a creative sonic expression of the COVID-19 lockdown time in October 2020. The group met and procured strange sounds that were recorded for use as source material in the activity – voices, objects, instruments.
A performative virtual ecology – the shapes and sounds of reasoning animals in pixels and samples. Participants had 48 hours to use the recorded Zoom call as source material to develop a short composition.
Composed for Exit Matrix Concordia Electroacoustic Studies Student Association compilation released August, 2020.
A sea-image-sound performance composed and recorded in Mi’kma’ki / Nova Scotia, Fall 2020.
21 equal temperament electroacoustic composition for eight-channels. Sound parameters and spatialisation directed through sonification of data captured from five matches of the board game Blokus Duo played between the composer and an artificial intelligence.
The Emperor’s Visit is a nine-channel fixed-media composition with live quadraphonic accompaniment and Arduino-controlled looping. It was composed and performed in the Spring of 2020 as part of the Electroacoustic program at Concordia University.
5.1 channel composition inspired by Paul Hindemith and the Neue Sachlichkeit movement.