In this piece, a legion of ontological possibilities that reside in this tablature system emerge in a series of slippages, but they are nevertheless constellated around a clear ethical question: "How can music, along with other human behaviors, from which it can not be separated, be the change it wants to be?"
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Excerpts from a String Quartet Tablature
String Quartet tablature.
'Le regole della musica non costituiscono una metafisica'
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
"To Be Sold To Be Let" for Voices
"To Be Sold To Be Let"
for Voices
Bil Smith Composer
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Monday, December 7, 2015
Exocyclic Trumpet in B flat: Recording of "Neural Intervals And Barium Infused Automatons" (2014)
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Exocyclic Trumpet in B flat |
"Neural Intervals And Barium Infused Automatons" (2014)
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Inverted Equilibrium Sonic Pendulum |
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PID |
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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.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
"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
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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
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Monday, November 16, 2015
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.

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
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