Tag: soundings

a sounding is a probing of an object in order to discover and bring out its inherent qualities and sound signature

  • Black-and-white photograph of Jan Williams leaning toward a tilted snare drum during a rehearsal, with microphones positioned around the instrument.

    Williams Tells of Rights

    A piece for voice and solo snare drum—without sticks—in which an exaggerated rolled rr causes the instrument’s snares to resonate as language pivots repeatedly around the sound of right.

  • Artwork by Ralph Provisero showing a standing figure exhaling a pale cloud toward a small black mechanical form, surrounded by smoke, green shapes and wavering vertical lines.

    Ffffff

    An 8′54″ miniature 5.1 installation created inside Robert Chambers’s Floor Flute, returning recorded breaths to five wind instruments and the bellows through a concealed spatial-audio system.

  • Gustavo Matamoros stands before a seated audience surrounded by tropical plants and historic architecture in Vizcaya’s central courtyard. Photo by Luis Olazabal.

    Organ

    Organ gathers five interconnected works created from Vizcaya’s historic player organ, its surviving rolls and the resonant architecture of the Villa’s central courtyard.

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    Music on a Budget

    An evolving collection of concise event scores that turns limited means into compositional material, inviting music to emerge from simple actions, inexpensive objects and the resources at hand.