For Candles (2011) | four candles and live electronics
For Candles is generated live from the dripping wax of four lit candles suspended horizontally over mic’d strips of glass. Each candle drips at a steady but slightly varying rate, depending on the impurities in wick and wax. The sound of the drips is then sent through delay lines whose timing is controlled by the rate of the “maestro candle,” and finally through pitched comb filters to create a four-voice waxen chorale. All processing done in Max/MSP.
My Parents’ Phone Number (2010) | rotary phone and live electronics
My Parents’ Phone Number is entirely comprised of sounds from a rotary phone. The piece begins with the dialing of Peter and Rebecca Greene’s phone number, (973) 763-4395 (no calls during dinner, please) repeated in canon, and proceeds through various manipulations of each individual dial. The ringer bell is then introduced, and the two sources – dial and bell – form overlapping cascades of subtly varying repetition streams. The result, a hectic array of building and dissolving tensions, serves to depict the composer’s state of mind during a call to his parents.
Inventions and Interludes in Iron (2008) | stereo tape
Mindfulness (stereo re-mix) (2007) | quadraphonic tape