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The Play of Bells

May 9, 2012 | No Comments
The Play of Bells

I’ve been making music with/for Trevor Saint and his beautiful bells lately. We’ve been working to develop a playing method that uses two bows and two mallets simultaneously. It sounds like this:

Rekindling An Old Flame

Apr 27, 2012 | No Comments
Rekindling An Old Flame

Last night, I was playing with the “Resonators” effect that comes pre-packaged with Ableton Live and stumbled upon a technique that has rekindled my old interest in just intonation and other microtonal tuning systems. The Resonators use banks of comb filters do a sort of pseudo-physical modeling of piano strings so that the effect rings ...

Michel Galante, Incantations: 1/20/2012

Mar 23, 2012 | No Comments
Michel Galante, <i>Incantations</i>: 1/20/2012

Several months ago, I was asked by choreographer/performer Rebecca Salzer to help create an interactive video component to a piece called Incantations for flute and marimba by composer Michel Galante. The piece was performed by the flute/percussion duo Due East (Erin Lesser, flute and Greg Beyer, percussion) on a recital called “Simultaneous Worlds” as part ...