Beebo
This is a live recording of a performance in which I used four electric guitars with EBows (devices that vibrate guitar strings using magnets) balanced on the strings. To change notes / chords, I detuned the strings one by one. The composition was timed to a cut-up of found media – air traffic control recordings from a major aviation disaster in which a ground service agent stole an unoccupied plane.
AVPAL
This work is an edited live recording in which I operated four cassette decks, sent through effects processors, containing both found media and original compositions which I had recorded onto the text. Found media includes: various Tiktoks, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, “Take Me Home” by Phil Collins, a monologue on AI written by an AI and sent through a text-to-speech model, and a recording of an acoustic guitarist playing the American folk song “Wildwood Flower.”
Pole Hit.AIFF
I composed this work entirely in QLab (a software designed for audio-video playback in theater and other live performance) for an installation in 8-point surround; I have remixed it for stereo. It is an exploration of unconventional composition techniques, the degree to which one sample can be used for composition (the first three minutes use only two samples), and the boundaries between sound design, sampling, and music composition.