From Diapason Gallery:
Quartet without Pyramid Scheme
a hybrid installation/improvisation by:
Jordan Topiel Paul
Eric Laska
Reed Evan Rosenberg
& Richard KamermanSaturdays, September 5, 12, 19 and 26
2 – 8PM
FreeQuartet Without Pyramid Scheme is a month-long collaborative project whose sound content will continually change over its duration. An experiment in compositional and improvisational time scales and form, the piece will occupy both rooms at Diapason.
The foundation for the piece is a Max/MSP playback program that plays several samples at once over a multi-channel system, randomizing many of the samples’ sound parameters (temporal and spatial position, relative volume, start/stop, playback speed, etc.). The output, a sum of these overlapping, looping samples, is a continuous sound environment that never repeats despite a relatively limited bank of recorded samples. This enables the raw sound materials to be heard in an ongoing and unplanned arrangement.
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