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.

Below is my piece, Dot Matrix:

Here’s a vid shot from inside Nate Page’s Storefront Plaza installation at Machine Project during a recent event I curated, titled Alvarado Remix. There were 2 mics located out on the street in the windows of the apartment above. These sounds were remixed by 8 performers throughout the afternoon to create varying soundscapes. Above, is a one by Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir.

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 an installation (see images here). So, we are essentially creating a live performance / sound installation embedded within the installation.

ALVARADO REMIX

1:00 pm - Scott Cazan
1:30 pm - Heather Lockie
2:00 pm - Adam Florin
2:30 pm - Wyatt Keusch
3:00 pm - Stephie Smith
3:30 pm - Paul Fraser
4:00 pm - Louis Lopez
4:30 pm - Stina Haraldsdottir

Machine Project
Dec. 4, 1-5 pm
Free

Four composers/performers and I will play a stone wall on the exterior of the Getty Center with mallets. The wall is lined with pitched travertine tiles, which we mapped out (see partial image above) and wrote five new compositions. There will also be a group audience-participation piece following the individual pieces.

Photo: Community Arts Resources

An exciting mix of compositions have been written by Mike Lockwood, Andrea Young, Colin Wambsgans, Ellen Reid and myself.

Come check out one of the sets!

• First Set
  11 – 11:50 am – 5 pieces
  11:50 am – group piece
• Second Set
  1:00 – 1:50 pm – 5 pieces
  1:50 pm – group piece
• Third Set
  3:30 – 4:20 pm – 5 pieces
  4:20 pm – group piece

 


Travertine Ensemble
Getty Center (map)
Oct. 22 – 11 am-5 pm
Free

I sound designed and wrote music for a short animation (directed by Maya Erdelyi), Phosphena, that is currently making the festival rounds. It’s going to the 2011 Istanbul Animation Festival in November, as well as the 2012 Tricky Film Festival in Vienna next year.

Official Selection:

2012 Tricky Film Festival in Vienna
2011 Istanbul Animation Festival
2011 The James River Film Festival (Richmond, VA)
2011 Cinetoro Festival de Experimentacion (Colombia)
2011 London International Animation Festival
2011 Melbourne International Animation Festival
2011 Bike Shorts at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles
2010 Big Screen Project in New York City