Electro-Acoustic
When I write, I try to make the music do exactly what I want it to, which is always, somehow challenging. The relationship between myself and my work during this process pivots from frustration to love, from curiosity to fear, and other unexpected emotions. It’s a process of everything.
This piece was inspired by a small, transient moment: walking around my neighborhood barefoot with the sun on my face.
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 of I am all that is here, I. 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 this 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).