Electro-Acoustic
Inquiry into the nature of the warm asphalt beneath my feet with lines lining things up is a meditation on emotional vulnerability and physicality during a time of crisis. At the onset of the pandemic, I compartmentalized and tried to keep all the sudden changes from affecting my writing. Eventually I learned to respond to the immediacy of events each day, to let my work become a space to be present and myself. This piece was inspired by one of those small, transient moments where I felt whole during that 2020 summer: walking around my neighborhood barefoot with the sun on my face. The work can be found on Parma's Mind and Machine Vol. 5, released on the Ravello Record Label (2023).
I am all that is here, I explores my anxieties from self-imposed isolation during the pandemic. Through repetition, dissonance, gradual pitch changes, and the capturing of small sounds such as breaths and clicks, the listener is slowly immersed into the soundworld. The parameters of this world are distorted and stretched so that immersion, not cathartic resolution, remains the primary architectural element. The standalone electronic work can be found on Parma's Mind and Machine Vol. 5, released on the Ravello Record Label (2023). As an electro-acoustic work, the performer (for unspecified instrumentation) improvises and responds to the electronics track while maintaining specified pitch parameters.
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Many thanks to Dr. William Raynovich for his performance and recording of the work at the Chicago New Music’s “Impromptu Fest.” (2023)
Walk as though to wake the earth was performed by Nathaniel Trost and Jordan McCarver and premiered at the Gorgas House in Tuscaloosa, AL (2022).