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Funky on the One, Part 5

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Funky on the One, Part 3

dart_board

The Dartboard

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Sugar on a Stick

Installing Sugar Labs software, its functionality, and telematic applications. [...]

Funky on the One, Part 1

Part 1 of a continuing look at rhythmic concepts. Goal: build an “organic drum machine” using max/msp. [...]

Here are two pieces I composed while studying with Chris Dobrian. Both are rhythmic studies, use clave based patterns, and have forms based on a symmetrical central or “mirror” point in the rhythmic cycles.

When I’m 65
2008

composed using pro tools, sampled audio, and [...]

Leaf Piece Program

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Accelerated version of the accompaniment video for Leaf Piece (15x performance tempo, above). Each flower represents a key center related to Eb major/Ab lydian, and their sizes are scaled to reflect the ratio between Eb (the first flower) and the key center’s tonic pitch (in order of appearance; [...]

Leaf Piece

2009
for improvised string bass and max/msp/jitter

Leaf Piece audio only:

This piece is inspired by the logical, systematic, yet unique growth patterns of plants. Plants develop to fit their environment while maintaining certain attributes. Any species of plant has a generalized set of attributes (colors, flower shape/size, leaf shape, relationship between stem/branches/leaves), that are more or [...]

Descarga Program

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After working on a basic concept and developing an initial max/msp application, I started composing the various mini compositions that would be ordered into the longer computer generated aleatoric form for Descarga. The original idea called for loops containing one cycle of a particular cell (6 sec. max) triggered and retriggered by [...]

Descarga Rhythms

The study and development of repeated rhythmic phrases, sometimes called clave, rhythmic cells, rhythmic frameworks etc, is an integral part of my work as a composer and improviser. The rhythms used in Descarga are extensions of familiar rhythms such as son and rumba clave, partido alto, and their related ornaments, sometimes called [...]

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