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Exocyclic Trumpet in B flat: Recording of "Neural Intervals And Barium Infused Automatons" (2014)

Exocyclic Trumpet in B flat

"Neural Intervals And Barium Infused Automatons" (2014)

On SoundCloud: 

 https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/neural-intervals-and-barium-infused-automatons

Inverted Equilibrium Sonic Pendulum

PID 

PID Theory

Composition for Cello, Chamber Ensemble, Inverted Equilibrium Sonic Pendulum, Exocyclic Trumpet in B flat, Schilke b3l Tunable Beryllium Bell Trumpet, Elliot Easton SG Custom OHSC Electric Guitar, Zildjian 22″ C2 Gong / Cymbal, LP Galaxy Giovanni Tumbadora, Retrosium Flute and ROLI Seaboard Grand.

From the performance notes/depiction of the Inverted Equilibrium Sonic Pendulum and the Cello:

We have executed a control method for maintaining an inverted pendulum in the unstable equilibrium position. This application is a classic lesson in control science, frequently utilized in ballistic guidance. In the case of the Cello, the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) method was implemented in LabWindows and intendulum with test mass. Once optimal parameters for the algorithm were established, trials were conducted in which individual gain constants were varied while controlling string and bow pressure to observe changes in instrument behavior.

When applying bow pressure, vector fields can have several special points: a stable point, called a sink, that attracts in all directions (forcing the concentrations to be at a certain value), an unstable point, either a source or a saddle point which repels (forcing the concentrations to change away from a certain value), and a limit cycle, a closed trajectory towards which several trajectories spiral towards (making the concentrations oscillate).

Repostulate in a alternative tablature system; topological models of morphogenesis.

Circos

Interplexity

le piano octosyllabique

Obstructionism 1.0

WET Composition

Tactile Scores

Compositional Hyper-Appropriation

Instramentoriom {2}

Moire

Graphetics (a3)

"Spunner". For Violin

"Spunner"

For Violin

"Third And Short" for Vibraphone

"Third And Short" for Vibraphone

Bil Smith Composer

2015

Flegmorgan for E flat Cornet, Tuba and Oboe.

"Disciplinary Mechanisms" . Louise Wei, Composer.

"Disciplinary Mechanisms" 

Louise Wei Composer

2015

For Soprano, Two Baritones, Bass and Piano

A Commission from Hua Xia Bank, Beijing China

"Dedicated Schlesinger" for Flute. Bil Smith Composer

Dedicated Schlesinger for Flute. Bil Smith Composer

"The contrast lies in the notation and performance and is discrete across all three ranges.  There is no telling how much of the performance outcome is due to real kinship with the score or how much is due to musical ingenuity and luck coincidence."

- Collated inferences

- Notational ontology recapitulates philology

Wire Magazine, December. LNM CD Recordings. New Releases.

"Interplexity"

Excerpt from the Bass Score of "Partitions: Cambics Alive in Sensient Amplules”

Sound Storms: The 3D Sculptural Scores of Nathalie Miebach

Nathalie Miebach's work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Her woven sculptures interpret scientific data related to astronomy, ecology and meteorology in three-dimensional space. Her pieces simultaneously function as works of art, aural embodiments of data (musical compositions) and instruments that illustrate environmental change.

By utilizing artistic processes and everyday materials, Miebach questions and expands the boundaries of traditional science data visualization -- and provokes expectations of what visual vocabulary is considered to be in the domain of science and art

Nathalie's Statement:

My work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Using the methodologies and processes of both disciplines, I translate scientific data related to astronomy, ecology and meteorology woven sculptures. My method of translation is principally that of weaving – in particular basket weaving – as it provides me with a simple yet highly effective grid through which to interpret data in three-dimensional space. By staying true to the numbers, these woven pieces tread an uneasy divide between functioning both as sculptures in space as well as instruments that could be used in the actual environment from which the data originates.

Central to this work is my desire to explore the role visual aesthetics play in the translation and understanding of science information. By utilizing artistic processes and everyday materials, I am questioning and expanding boundaries through which science data has been traditionally visually translated (ex: graphs, diagrams), while at the same time provoking expectations of what kind of visual vocabulary is considered to be in the domain of ‘science’ or ‘art’.

For my most recent project called “Recording and Translating Climate Change”, I gather weather observations from specific ecosystems using very simple data-collecting devices. The numbers are then compared to historical / global meteorological trends, before being translated into sculpture. By examining the complex behavioral interactions of living/non-living systems between weather and an environment, I hope to gain a better understanding of complexity of systems and behaviors that make up weather and climate change. Lately, I have also started to translate the data into musical scores, which are then interpreted through sculptures as well as through collaborations with musicians. My aim is twofold: to convey a nuance or level of emotionality surrounding my research that thus far has been absent from my visual work and to reveal patterns in the data musicians might identify which I have failed to see. 

‘When a musician writes a score that must be mechanically carried through, compelling the interpreter to follow it as if he was a machine… what is the sense to make it for a human being if it can be made for a machine? A music score that imposes such a severity has no sense. Ideas must be free and the musicians who will play must be creative.’ Self-invented notation gives musical scores the possibility of an open-ended future – a future with its roots in history, but one that also invites the entire world to join in an artistic conversation about our shared humanity."

- John Cage

RECORDING WITHDRAWN: "X Distinguishes Itself Unilaterally From Y Without Y Distinguishing Itself From X in Return"

"X Distinguishes Itself Unilaterally From Y Without Y Distinguishing Itself From X in Return"

RECORDING WITHDRAWN

Non­decisional immanence, which allows itself to be posited as already given without decisional positing, is an immanence that does not even need to be liberated from decisional transcendence: it is precisely as that which is already separated (without­ separation) from the decisional co­constitution of given and givenness, immanence and transcendence, that it conditions its own positing as already given.

"Inequitable Genders and Deer Populations Continue To Thrive" - Laboratorie New Music. (2014). Midnight, August 3, 2014.

"Inequitable Genders and Deer Populations Continue To Thrive" - Laboratorie New Music. (2014). 

Midnight, August 3, 2014.

Composition for:

Violin I,II
Viola I,II
Clarinet
Oboe
Bassoon
Bass Trumpet
Double Bass
Horn
Piano

Adjuncts

from the Performance Notes:

“What is necessary is to overcome painting, sculpture, poetry and music. We need a more comprehensive art that meets the requirements of the new spirit.”

- Lucio Fontana

This unprecedented spirit indicates the characteristics of the algorithm and its usurpation of media specificity. This combinatory aspect of his thought is what makes Fontana’s shredding of the classical modernist flat picture plane far more than an art historical curiosity (or modern tragedy).

...with Fontana, the grand, elegant slashing of monochromatic canvases with a razor blade, far from an act of desperation, symbolizes a subordination of place to space typical of most tribal rituals. It is an invitation to mentally move beyond the surface of reality into an unconditioned reality. It is a conceptual act of access into the overwhelming infinite; an act more spatial than psychological.