I memorized Matisyahu's album Light. I contemplated why someone would want to "Escape" the triumvirate of "the Bible, blood libels, and false idols." I covered "I Will Be Light" at an open mic and at a church event. I had my students analyze the sounds in the introduction to "Motivate" and build their own sampled… Continue reading Spark Finder
Tag: electroacoustic music
Multimedia Meditation
David Irving Weiner and I did not set out to make a spiritual piece for the Westchester Square Arts Festival although the venue was the sanctuary St. Peter's Episcopal Church. The 30-foot-high supports for the dome above the nave compelled us more than the golden altarpiece and inscribed marble floors. We hung the central sculptural… Continue reading Multimedia Meditation
Lost in Space-Time
On Wednesday night, I donated some of my hearing to Mario Diaz de Leon and Jeremiah Cymerman in a concert curated by Tim Byrnes at Vaudeville Park. Yes, it was detrimentally loud in some sections, but I consciously decided to stay in their dimension-bending soundscape. From the timbral variety of their soundcheck, I could tell… Continue reading Lost in Space-Time
Deep Talking
"If we are going to spend all this time making music, it should not be divorced from our reality." Leigh Landy, June 2011, in "Art for Goodness(') Sake," his keynote speech for the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network/Electronic Music Foundation Conference In the title of Landy's speech, the word "goodness(')" addressed not only the quality of… Continue reading Deep Talking
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