leaf-vein

Performed at SUNY Albany on Oct.29, 2005:
An interactive work for live audio and video processing in collaboration with multimedia artist Joe Reinsel. The piece is in three continuous sections following the form of the Charles Ives art song, "Maple Leaves." Harmonic content from the Ives song develops into clouds of sonic foliage, which compliment Joe's custom video processes.
I arranged the Ives song based on its original phrasings and orchestrated it for guitar. Each phrase is played live, sampled, and then sent through parameter controllable granular synthesis processing, creating new harmonic colors, phrases, and rhythms as the originals decompose. During this transformative process, the newly created layers of processed audio are scattered among six speakers in the performance space. Decomposing tone leaves fall around the audience as the minute long composition expands to nearly twenty.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Burre
• Reinsel
• Charles
• Ives
• MAX/MSP
• Crusher-X
• improvised
• music
• video
• soundscape
• fall
• SUNY
• Albany
• NY