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1. Sinusoidal Tendencies (9:54)
In this piece I randomly juxtaposed discrete sections of equal duration in time. Each section is a mini-drone that evolves slowly until it is abruptly interrupted by the next. I wrote a program using MAX/MSP to generate and manipulate sixty sine waves. Within each section, the frequency of individual waves is fixed, however, each is subjected to continually shifting amplitude curves. Frequency distributions were configured within a constrained randomness or loosely centered around harmonic, logarithmic, or exponential continuums. Intentional clipping was used to create indeterminant harmonic effects. Hear it on-line at the Sonus web site.

2. Reunion (9:59)
Reunion was originally written as the sound track for Alysse Stepanian’s video of the same name. The source material consists largely of samples of an old brass film spool being struck, claves, and guitar harmonics. The architecture of the piece involves three consecutive 3:20 drones, upon which eleven shorter sections (:54) are layered.

3. Two Minutes (2:00)
The source for the piece is a recording of the phrase, “Two minutes can be a long time.” The material was manipulated utilizing a patch I wrote in MAX/MSP, and the phase vocoder found in Tom Erbe’s, Sound Hack program.

4. Country Inn 6:06)
Country Inn was originally written as the sound track for Alysse Stepanian’s video of the same name. Atypically, I chose to use stock samples from the Roland JV-1010 in this piece. Rather than focusing on sample manipulation, this work utilizes a patch written in MAX that harmonically morphs between two mutually exclusive hexachords while applying random parameters to chord size, rhythm and dynamics.

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