futureCities
Cross conservatory-trained precision with a love for electronics, experimentalism and math-metal, and you have futureCities: Anne Rainwater and Jude Traxler, piano and percussion.
trax_sequencer1 (2009)
In 2009, I built a homemade audio slicer that cleverly manipulates any audio track it receives. It quickly thereafter become one of my favorite musical robots. This is a short preview of trax_sequencer1 randomizing Erin Frith singing Hurt, by Nine Inch Nails.
Digital Hum (2009)
the first 360 digits of Pi for piano and percussion
Written for Anne Rainwater and her obsession with the finite infinite
Traxler (Teaching) Studios
Katie Traxler and I run a recording and teaching studio out of our home in NYC, offering recording, mixing, mastering and post-production services as well as private lessons in percussion, guitar(s), piano, and composition.
Divisions of Progress (2009)
for piano, computer and any five instruments.
Each player provides an audio track to be randomly sliced and redistributed throughout the audience. As the piano soloist triggers new sections, each performer plays a series of game mobiles that evolve in complexity throughout the piece. Written for the 2009 Bang on a Can Festival. Richard Valitutto, piano soloist.
Fallout (2009)
for two performers arguing on any subject.
With simple rhythms, two (or more) performers have improvisatory spats on random topics. Lasting only sixty seconds, both parties must continually react while speaking / shouting in the rhythms provided. Written for Andy Kozar & William Lang.
The Black Brave Ocean (2009)
for three pianos.
21 chords for my niece, Isabelle Alcazar.
Stuart Saunders Smith: The Link Series of Vibraphone Essays (2009)
My recording of SSS’s vibraphone solo, Links No. 7 (New England Night Weave), for New World Records.
Collage – Stanley Leonard (2008)
Featuring the percussion styling of Hamirüge, the Louisiana State University Percussion Ensemble.
Anthology EP (2008)
75 excerpts from 75 different pop tunes – slammed together to tell the haunting poetry of Keeley Kristin.
Behind the Walls of Sleep (2008)
for keyboard instrument and any six music boxes.
A rubberband lullaby affixed to the sliding tempo of six music box melodies. Written for Brett William Dietz.
Sun Out (2008)
for any voice, string or keyboard instrument and computer – one player
A study on computer/performer interaction featuring the poetry of Kenneth Koch
Pieces Mended (2007)
for solo snare drum and prerecorded audio.
Snare drums recorded, sampled, affected and played back… with snare drum. Written for Chris Fauries & Chad Heiny.
Needles for Fireworks (2006)
My first stint composing for the robots in MAX/MSP. Xenakis, meet Ligeti, meet my new friend, MAX.
Seven Ghosts – Brett William Dietz (2006)
Engineering, Mixing and Mastering done at Cat Crisis Records, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Headcase – Brett William Dietz (2006)
The birth of Cat Crisis Records – recording, engineering and mastering Brett Dietz’s insanity at the LSU School of Music Recording Studio for his deeply introspective opera, Headcase.