“The piece is all spurts of fitful, spiraling music. . . .”
This is from an Anthony Tommasini
review of the JACK Quartet concert
in which they played Ideomania, my latest video score. Click
here for the review on the Times website, and here for a scan of
the article as it appeared in print. Those interested in the score
may watch it on Vimeo; I'll
add sound once I get the recording.
Graphic
score: the first page is the composition in its most general form, and the following pages are a realization of this form for flute, violin, and geometric animation. Each note color corresponds to a playing technique:
Violin: open string harmonic stopped string
Flute: clear tone breathy tone multiphonic
Staff
notation with glyphs: this score correlates the string-tablature and flute-fingering diagrams of the graphic score to more conventional staff notation.
The
Meaning of Musical Noise: a paper I read at the “Noise
and Sound in the Eighteenth Century” conference at the
Sorbonne Nouvelle. Click here for
a handout with the relevant examples (the slide numbers refer to a
PowerPoint presentation that I haven’t uploaded).