Stochastic Externals for Pure Data
I’ve always been fascinated by probabilities and distributions, and applying this to musical forms. Over the past several years I’ve become increasingly interested …
Guest Artist at Northern Illinois University
For NIU’s spring percussion ensemble concert, I visited as their guest artist. After giving a talk on the mathematics behind my piece, Quocíente, …
Balance-Unbalance 2015
I recently performed at the Balance-Unbalance International conference themed “Water, Climate, Place: Re-Imagining Environments.” It brought multiple disciplines together and the conference was …
Haru in the Garden
To celebrate the beginning of the Spring season, Crossing 32nd Street performed on the “Haru in the Garden” Festival at the Japanese …
Socioacoustic
Socioacoustic is a project of sonifying social media events. In particular, I used Twitter’s streaming API to track specific hashtags which I then …
World Premiere of Matthew Burtner’s “Glisten of Places”
For the 2014 ZeroSpace concert I gave the world premiere of a new work by Matthew Burtner entitled, Glisten of Places. ZeroSpace is a conference …
PASIC 2014
John Lane & Terry Longshore hosted the 2014 PASIC focus day entitled, “Images of Sound: Innovations in Notation.” I was involved in …
Residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada
The summer of 2014 I attended the Roots & Rhizomes Percussion residency at the Banff Centre. It was an excellent week-long intensive …
“Auricle” for microtonal berimbau & live processing
Auricle was the culmination of a project that has been a long study in graphic score development, stochastic & algorithmic music, and getting Processing to work with Pure Data (truly the most painstaking part of the process) …
Polyrhythms Workshop
As a percussionist, I often get to experience the liberation of polyrhythms because composers know that they can, “give it to percussionists, they’ll figure it out.” This blessing/curse has certainly placed us at the center of a lot of innovative and experimental ideas. One of these has been the advancement of rhythm (which really needed a boost to catch up with advancements in pitch over the past few centuries) …