| Transients and Resonance
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| 8:25. 8 channel audio + stereo mix. Apr 2008. |
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| a short descriptive paper on techniques
used in the composition |
| Premiered at SFU's
Surrounding Sound 2008. Performed at Akousma(5) (Montreal), EuCue 2008 (x2), SARC (Queens University, Belfast), Keele University (UK). Winner of 3rd prize in SOCAN Young Composers Awards 2008, Hugh Le Caine category. Placed in top 10 in CEC's JTTP competition. To be released on CEC's Cache 2008 compilation. |
| I have long wanted to
compose a piece using instrumental extended technique, which is then
further extended into the electroacoustic realm; in this composition,
prepared guitar is used as the source material. Within the
electroacoustic compositional realm, I used several
spectro-morphological archetypes, classifying them using the amount of
"energy" they contained, and using the idea of ‘energy transfer’
between the archetypes as an organizing principle. In my mind, this
organization resulted in a relationship between Resonances (slow,
evolving, energy building gestures), Transients (hard attacks and
struck sounds, exuding energy), as well as the resulting Particles
(remnants of Transient collisions), leading to the sound events’
perception as a cohesive, though state changing, material entity. |
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