I’ve been getting to know some new musicians over on Bluesky. Here are some!
Isaac Io Schankler
And also here
Telebasher
Mannfishh
Garett Schumann
This work was presented for the first time on the evening of Sunday, November 3 at an event held in and around Burton Memorial Tower. The unique program welcomes attendees into the belfry of the Charles Baird Carillon where everyone enjoyed a communal ‘headphone listening experience’ featuring new ambient electronic music created by Sara and myself alongside accompanying carillon improvisation performed by Julie. The result was a performance that bound individual and group resonances together, that transformed internal and external listening into a memorable, collective experience. This video presents my contribution, “O Beata Maria”, as a standalone stereo electronics composition, accompanied by photos from the November 3 event taken by photographer Eleanor Daftuar. The colorful graphic on the title image was created by designer Brendan C. Page. “O Beata Maria” is a multi-layered synthesizer arrangement of the first half of the motet ‘O Beata Maria’ (1551) composed by sixteenth century African-Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano. The original work has six parts, and I used a suite of VST software instruments, reverb, delay, and granular synthesis effects to render Lusitano’s original music as a sparkling, aural tapestry of 48 individual layers. Overall, my arrangement begins by exploring delicate differences in timbre and speed (24 of the layers are rendered at 54 BPM, the other 24 at 55 BPM), then reverb effects dominate the mix, and, finally, granular synthesis.
This is a new work for edited stock footage and music that I released on 11/19/23. I composed and produced the score using Reaper and the free VST instruments Sitala (bass drum), Podolski (arpeggiating synth), Helm (bass synth), Surge XT (spacey lead, secondary bass synth), Emergence (granular synthesis effect on the spacey lead), Oril River (reverb on one track of the arpeggiating synth).
Evan Pincus
William Lang
“they’ve adapted themselves to their chosen resonant chamber over time”