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| my.world.music – This three-part work is, once again, based on folk instrument sources. While house sitting for Brad Garton, I found a pair of tablas, an old out of tune zither, and a four-note chime and decided to create compositions using them. I recorded myself playing each of these instruments and then set about manipulating the samples and creating compositions with them. I mainly used sample-based granular synthesis processing techniques. Both grateful.drum and beat.nik are loosely based on the drum circles one often finds on college campuses and the extended improvisatory music of the Grateful Dead. Not being a percussionist myself, I hoped that the granular techniques would create the feel of a live percussion performance with a real ebb and flow of the rhythm and energy. The harmonica piece, air2.blow2, was performed on my trusty Hohner harmonica in the key of F – my favorite harmonica key. Written during the middle of the summer of 1997 in Roosevelt, NJ, these pieces are tied together by the four-note chimes, which reminded me of the ever-present ice cream trucks I would hear driving by the house in the late afternoon and early evening. Of these works, air2.blow2 has been the most widely performed section. It was played at both the SEAMUS conference at Dartmouth University in 1999 and the International Computer Music Conference in Beijing, China – also in 1999.
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