Sound artist, media artist and composer for both humans and computers. So much banjo, too
Harrison Galleries presents Hank Lazer and me on Thursday in a poetry and music performance related to field recordings of mind in morning. Hank will read from his book and I’ll improvise on banjo and we’ll all have a fine time.
February 24 6pm
field recordings of mind in morning
with Hank Lazer
Harrison Galleries
2315 University Dr
Tuscaloosa AL 35401
Our work is supported in part by the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI)
Purchase the book at BlazeVox
Listen to the audio at Bandcamp
Here’s Rene Reder, viola, and Chris Steele, piano, in the premiere performance of my work Numbers Station (Cynthia). This is from the Chamber Music @ AEIVA concert on October 28, 2021, held in conjunction with the exhibit Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, Alabama. The concert was organized by Laura Usiskin.
Like many of my pieces, this composition is open form and modular. In Numbers Station (Cynthia) all of the musical material relates to two dates chosen by the performers. So, as much as I love Chris and Rene’s performance here, I’m looking forward to future versions of the piece with different instrumentation, different numbers of performers, different chosen dates, etc.
Here’s a video of the premiere performance of Birds of Passage in an Egg-shaped World performed by students at CalArts under the direction of Tim Feeney.
Performers: Abigail Whitman, Eliot Burk, Bar Landau, Margo Harms, Matthew LeVeque,Victor Sintchak,Alexander Reyes, Nestor Gonzalez and Tim Feeney
I created the instruments using generative design techniques. They were produced using digital fabrication: 3D printing and laser cutting/engraving. I’ll post more info about the instruments later, including OpenSCAD code to produce them yourself.
This work was supported in part by a grant from the University of Alabama Office for Research and Economic Development (ORED) lnternal Funding Small Grants Program.
Packing gear for an upcoming project with Tim Feeney and students at CalArts.
Even though this looks like the start of a frivolous summer camp craft project, I expect it will result in some truly amazing sounds by week’s end!
Many thanks to Nameless Sound, Dave Dove, Thomas Helton, Anthony and Lawndale Arts Center for a great They, Who Sound show in Houston on Monday night! Here’s a guitar-driven drawing created during my set.
I wrote code in Processing to produce these images. Each note I play on the guitar spawns a particle which a traverses the space of the drawing, interacting with virtual gravitational fields.