Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1501072308140.14436@panix5.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Aural Anticipatory Architecture
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 23:14:40 -0500 (EST)
Aural Anticipatory Architecture http://www.alansondheim.org/varied04.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/agni1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/agni2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/agni3.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/agni4.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/agni5.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/agni6.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/agni0.mp3 Thanks to Luke Damrosch's SuperCollider programming, we have a proof of concept structure for apparent reversed reverberation and accompanying sonic architecture. We constantly changed parameters and the resulting seven pieces are a good beginning (as well as interesting music in themselves). Later I added natural harmonic harmonica as agni0. Other instrumentation included voice (Azure Carter), Tibetan cymbals and madal (Luke Damrosch), alto saxophone and toy keyboard (Alan Sondheim). In terms of improvisation, the environment is a unique and supple aural dwelling creating a different playing experience than the usual acoustic or electronic-acoustic setup. Luke will be working on equalization, pitch changes, etc., and I hope to create a multi-speaker/channel configuration that will appear overall to distort temporal perception, as if sound were rising out of thin air, in a state of continual enunciation. We used the laptop microphone, and output into a small Fender instrument amp; all the components in the playing-space were too close to prevent feedback. If things go well, we're present this at the Interrupt festival at the Brown University Cave in March. Enjoy! (Thanks greatly to Luke and Azure of course!)