At the Fast End of the Fast-Slow Continuum
Posted by Erik | Filed under Music, Video
This piece was conceived of as an artistic expression of the notion that those species which live fast also die young. Time compression—roughly one month in six minutes—exposes the relentless 24-hour commuter drive into downtown Chicago, beneath an unnatural forest of light posts and a smoggy skyline. The piece was created in support of the International Day of Climate Action (24/10/2009), in evidence of current conditions contributing to global warming.
At the Fast End of the Fast-Slow Continuum is an experimental time-based video made using custom Max/MSP/Jitter patches to sample and reconstitute a streaming media source. (2009)
Tags: chicago, computer music, continuum, cycle, durational, experimental time, jitter, lens, max msp, rhythm, skyline, streaming media, time, urban art, Video
Time, Through Windows
Posted by Erik | Filed under Music, Video
Time, Through Windows explores the perception of time, using the passage from spring to winter as a metaphor for the artist’s father’s cycle of life—from child to elder. Music and spoken dialog work in combination with video to create a six-piece narrative that invites the audience into an intimate durational experience. This work, presented as a circular grouping of six audio/video pairs, acts as a vehicle for the audience to contemplate that which might normally go overlooked.
Tags: arts, audio, chicago, columbia college chicago, cycle, death, durational, father, gallery, images, installation, lens, method, mfa, narrative, perspective, rhythm, score, simplicity, Spoken-word, time, Video, Visual, world
A Fact of Modern Life
Posted by Erik | Filed under Music
This piece was first written in 2004 as a cacophony of spoken text to accompany a four-floor stairwell “exertion” installation. The 2009 revision was made to ready the piece for live performance. As revised, A Fact of Modern Life calls for processed violin and voice. The score is available to interested parties upon request.
A Fact of Modern Life
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Tags: audio, installation, repetition, rhythm, score, simplicity, Spoken-word, voice
Through The Woods
Posted by Erik | Filed under Music
This piece was written for four vibraphones (metal bars played with soft mallets) and gong. The piece is a direct descendant of the Balinese gamelan; I performed in the Northern Illinois University gamelan from 1981-1986. This live performance (Brian Deck, et al, Northern Illinois University, 1983) featured a musician on a riser in each of the four corners of the auditorium.
Through The Woods, with four vibraphones (1983)
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In 2009 a recording was made of Through The Woods played on the Armonica
Through The Woods, revised for Armonica (2009)
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Tags: audio, Balinese gamelan, interlocking melody, northern illinois university, percussion, rhythm, vibraphone
