Ingress, a long-form piece for violin, electronics, field recordings, pitch pipe, and mixer performed by Scott Cazan. Recorded in Los Angeles, CA, 2015.
Glass-mastered CD in a 4 panel gatefold package featuring photography by Sven Hagolani and design by Steven Ziadie (in an edition of 200)
A compilation of works from the West Coast of the US on Edition Wandelweiser and available in the US through ErstDist.
My work 'Outliers' is beautifully performed by Lucia Mense - bass recorder, Frank Gratkowski - alto saxophone, Seth Josel - electric guitar, and Anton Lukoszevieze - violoncello
Press:
The Wire - Listed in the Top Ten Modern Composition Releases of 2014
Rondo (German)
Just Outside
Improv Sphere
A 45rpm vinyl released on CareOf Editions in Berlin.
It can be purchased and previewed here or via a number of European distributors. If you are in Los Angeles, it can also currently be purchased at Vacation Vinyl.
Some recent press:
Pitchfork's 'Guest List: Best of 2013'
ARTFORUM's December issue: 'Best of 2013'
Just outside
improv sphere - Julien Héraud
A work for chalk, computer keyboard, and SuperCollider released on Audition Records. Recorded while in residency at GIS Studio in Mexico City
a generative music piece ruminating on place, memory, and the expressive possibilities of algorithms as the work slowly struggles to reproduce the melody to Neil Diamond's 'Forever in Blue Jeans.' The piece is a 'love song' that traces a year of life between Los Angeles, Berlin, and Stockholm with genetic algorithms, Markov chains, spectral analysis of field recordings, and a number of samples from various objects collected over the time period.
A piece for feedback network and violin in which the output of the network is temporally dilated (read at a slower rate) then fed back into the network.
A short psychoacoustic work for live electronics.
Originally a 4 channel piece produced with the support of Chalk Hill Residency in Healdsburg, CA. Performed at Chalk Hill Residency as well as UC San Diego's Wave Energy Series.
A large ensemble algorithmic work based on a number of ideas related to Ordinals.
Here performed by the Dog Star Orchestra on May 22nd, 2015 at The Wild Beast at CalArts: Casey Anderson, saxophone Archie Carey, bassoon Daniel Coral, accordion Jack Doutt, guitar Jordan Dykstra, viola John Eagle, horn and percussion Corey Fogel, percussion Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone Mari, melodica, keyboard, thumb piano Luke Martin, electric guitar Odeya Nini, voice Michael Pisaro, guitar, electronics, objects James Rushford, keyboard, viola Cassia Streb, viola Christine Tavolacci, flute Micaela Tobin, voice, electronics Stephen Touchton, guitar, melodica, laptop Colin Wambsgans, melodic, keyboard, laptop Scott Worthington, double bass.
Thanks to Michael Pisaro and Colin Wambsgans for organizing the festival, concert, and recording.
280 'strings' set off and interacting with each other.
Originally a 4 channel piece produced with the support of Chalk Hill Residency in Healdsburg, CA. Performed at Chalk Hill Residency as well as UC San Diego's Wave Energy Series.
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Also available for purchase from Vacation Vinyl in Los Angeles, CA
A feedback network in which a laptop and an iPad run custom listening software (written in SuperCollider). Each one produces sound based on the other's output. By physically inserting myself into the feedback loop via a 1/4-inch jack inserted into my mouth, I can influence the network's response.
A work for any number of musicians in which pitches that are heard most often are slowly removed from the set of available pitches over the course of the piece until no more pitches are left.
This version was performed at The Pescadrome in Santa Barbara by ensemble 303 (sax - Casey Anderson, laptop - Scott Cazan, guitar - John Hastings, guitar - Mike Winter).
The title of this piece relates to the self-similar nature of the pitch material, derived from a fractal algorithm, which is used by all members of the ensemble. Performed by Ensemble Liminar.
Performed by the New Century Players (Flute: Rachel Rudich, Viola: Mark Menzies, Cello: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Piano: Dzovig Markarian, Conductor: David Rosenboom).
A work for an army of megaphones demonstrating in a public space. Ordinary objects are amplified using the megaphones occasionally producing unexpected feedback. Originally scored using data collected from Google on the frequency of the word 'history' (and it's variants) over the course of our known history.
Composed for Ensemble Zwischentöne & Orchester für Direkte Demokratie.
A track composed at the San Ysidro border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico.
Part of the Khalija compilation 'Janus' which can be found here.
A work for laptop ensemble exploring emergent phenomena within a networked group. It treats the ensemble as a collection of individual actors in a network where they are able to influence each other. Each member slowly narrows their 'variance' from the pitch of the performer next to them until a generally uniform pitch or harmony emerges that can then be excited by a 'conductor.' These moments then last for as long as the group is in agreement or rather until someone begins to defect.
Performed here by The Laptop Orchestra at University of Iowa (LOUI), directed by Christopher Jette.
The score and software can be downloaded here
A collaboration with Carmina Escobar.
Alebrijes is an installation existing within a natural environment consisting of five small sensing Arduino-based modules called alebrijes (after Pedro Linares' brightly colored creatures celebrated in Mexico).
Our first installation of the project occurred on April 20th, 2012 at The Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology in Michocán, Mexico.
More details on the video page and at counterprotocol.org.
A sound installation around Richard Serra's 'Band' sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in September, 2010.
Steady sine tones emanating from four speakers surrounding the sculpture and three small radios placed throughout the sculpture.
Commissioned by Dublab as part of LACMA's 'Muse' series.
A six-channel video and sound piece for out of phase high-speed footage of fire and sine tones tuned to the room.
Performed by Jordan Bartee, Scott Cazan, Michael Deragon, Elisabeth McMullin, Jae Park, and Matthew Setzer at Calarts.
NTK (the NETLab Toolkit) is a visual authoring system for designers, developers, makers, researchers and students who want to design and build tangible Internet of Things projects. With a simple drag and drop interface, connect sensors, actuators, media and networks with the smart widgets. Concepts can be prototyped quickly, encouraging iteration, experimentation and testing by sketching in hardware.
A very simple network communication library for SuperCollider. Made to be flexible, simple, and immediate to setup in an ensemble environment.
I work a lot on various small open source projects for my own use as well as others. Please checkout my github for more.