All posts by “Brian Girffith

Pierre Emmanuel Mariaca – Prepared Harp & Shadow Theater

An interactive installation by Pierre Emmanuel Mariaca, MFA3 in Composition.Collaborators : Herry Kim, Ruoyi Shi and Dongpu Ling. This interactive installation is about creating your own experience of artistic composition with three main components : sounds, shadow theater and projected images.The SoundsFishing Lines: Take the […]

Jake Sucher – In Memoriam: Icebergs

Offerings to the glacier may be made using the microphone inside. A loud sustained sound will affect the sound design.Large chunks of ice that break from the side of a glacier become icebergs. These icebergs float through the ocean and melt.This piece is in memory […]

Jesse Reyes – Tuning as Material

The understanding of pitch is a product of memory. For example, one can develop “perfect pitch” by remembering the distribution of equally tempered intervals which are in fact a series of unnatural compromises. Pianos also maintain a memory of pitch. There are 15-20 tons of […]

Aron Dahl – Proportions of Time

Proportions of time is an installation consisting of a 109 hours of 4-channel audio made on the Buchla Music Easel, and a video filmed around the Salton Sea. The Salton Sea lies in the middle of the desert and came to be after a 2 […]

Celia Hollander – Collective Phantom Ring

A multi channel musical composition with a speculative fiction narrative for eight flat panel speakers made from styrene and plexiglass. Collective Phantom Ring, an 8-channel musical composition and speculative fictional narrative for flat panel speakers, is an exploration into layering states of listening, merging temporal […]