Above is a music video of a piece of mine for 10 stylophones, Moving Portrait. The vid was directed by Nick Flessa, with additional photography and recording by Michael Abitz and Nawid Piracha.
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Update: Check out a great article about the video and the “stylophone revolution” by Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music.
Meejin Hong’s Soil, screens at Slamdance Film Festival 2012 on Jan. 22 and 25. Meejin and I sound designed the animation last spring. From Meejin’s notes:
As imagery transforms between figurative and abstraction, Soil explores the life cycle of an organism and dualities within human nature.
Here’s a compilation of the Machine Project events (that includes the Travertine Ensemble) at the Getty Center‘s Family Day in October:
Below is my piece, Dot Matrix:
In September, I wrote music for Deena Selenow’s production of Max Frisch’s The Firebugs. The action of the play is observed by a Greek-style chorus of firemen, and I set their lines to music.
I’m curating a performance / installation project, Alvarado Remix on Dec. 4 at Machine Project. The event features performances by 8 sound artists who will manipulate the sounds on the street and then pipe them into the Machine Project “plaza.” What’s the Machine Project “plaza?” Nate Page recently inverted Machine Project and turned it into [...]