I’m excited about sharing the bill tomorrow night with John Wiese, Steve Jansen and Brad Davis.
Wednesday April 9, 8pm
Parkside Cafe
4036 5th Ave S
Birmingham AL 3522
I’ll be presenting my Radicans project which uses small motors and soundbug transducers to transform ordinary objects in the performance space into speakers. Tables, chairs, trashcans and windows come to life in a chorus of electronic chirping, buzzing and spinning drones.
Indian Folk Music From Uttar Pradesh has one track called “Kandal Music”. The liner notes describe a Kandal as “a huge, bugle-like instrument, about 6-feet long.” Anyone know where I can find more Kandal music?
This is my first working prototype for a series of experimental soprano sax mouthpieces. This model marries a trumpet or french horn-style cup with a sax mouthpiece neck. Thanks to Jamey Grimes for last-minute 3D modeling kung-fu.
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I enjoyed reading Andy Farnell’s excellent Designing Sound book a few years ago. While working through the Practical Series examples he provides, I decided they would be more useful for me as Max patches. When it comes to coding and algorithms, I also know that I learn better by going slowly and working step-by-step, so I decided to port the patches from Pd to Max.
A few disclaimers and caveats:
Download the Sound Design Practical Series – Artificial Sounds
Multiple bytes from Max to Arduino – done. Every 5 years or so I have to figure this out all over again. Today I feel like I’ve cracked the code. The key this time is “append 10” (the new line ASCII character) at the end of my list of comma-separated values.
A great soundcheck with Lonnie Holley in advance of tonight’s concert.
Banjo in the kitchen is a cliché, but this double c tuning really seems to work well with the cassoulet on the stove.
Had a great first rehearsal with the Huntsville Master Chorale tonight of my choral piece Having Told the Hive the News. Looking forward to the premiere in May.
UAB brass quintet will ‘Dance Like it Hurts,’ and play music about invasive plants for Birmingham Art Music Alliance on Wednesday – Al.com preview of tonight’s concert. My contribution is the bit about invasive plants.
An excerpt from the score
Wednesday January 15 7:30 pm
Birmingham Art Music Alliance presents
UAB Faculty Brass
Samford University
Brock Recital Hall
Birmingham AL
This will be the premiere performance of my brass quintet, Purple Loosestrife (Satellite). The piece functions as a distributed network of musical gestures. Each musician can influence the behavior of any of the other musicians, while simultaneously being influenced by them. No one person is more “in charge” than another. There’s also no predetermined beginning, middle or ending. I sat in on a rehearsal this weekend and loved how the ensemble was working together. I can’t wait to hear how it comes together for the performance.
Also on the program:
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Brass Quintet consists of Dr. James Zingara and Dr. Steve Roberts, trumpets, Dr. Martin Cochran, euphonium, Jeff Koonce, trombone, and Scott Robertson, tuba.