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No clue what I’d use it for, but thought it was cool.
Irving Braxiatel: In Response...
I have worked with a number of actors who are ‘difficult’ and often this can come down to the simple fact that they are terrified. Stage fright is a very tangible thing.
Exactly this. I’ve found the same thing happen with “difficult” performers, as a composer. And when I was playing the violin, I know I got prickly with people before concerts. Adrenaline does strange things to otherwise reasonable people.
I think it’s much worse sitting in an audience during a premiere of a piece, though. You suddenly hear every little flaw in the piece, everything you should’ve done differently, everything that didn’t work the way you thought it should. And at that point in time, there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it. When dealing with technology, it’s ten times worse, since invariably something WILL go wrong or give a kernel panic/BSOD at an important entrance.
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cat 1984.mov > /dev/dsp has the distinction of being both the first computer music piece I’m happy with and also the longest title to date. The title is actually a command line command to make much of the source material. It sends the file “1984.mov” to the device /dev/dsp, which is the sound card. It makes a lot of really loud noise.
In this piece, the source material was heavily filtered, and the voices are created using a type of granular synthesis called FOF (formant wave synthesis). The tuning system is based upon frequencies found in the spectrum of the source material. It was created using csound and Common LISP Music. This piece dates to 2001, and was originally a final project for an introductory computer music class.
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Elevator Orange was composed around spring of 2000. When I was a student at CalArts, there was a yearly, gigantic music festival encompassing the entire music department for a week. I worked production in the music department, and one of the last concerts that week was the Javanese gamelan.
At the end of the concert, Bob Clendenen (the production manager and a former teacher), I Nyoman Wenten (who danced in the concert) and I were in the main elevator, absolutely exhausted and crammed in among various gear from the concert. Pak Wenten pulled out an orange that we shared. I can honestly say that was the best orange I’ve ever had in my life. There are few things in life better than a fresh orange shared among friends.
The title is both a reference to the actual elevator, which was painted a hideous shade of orange, but also to the orange we shared.
The Program Bio
My program bio blurb:
Jennifer Doering received her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied with John Rahn. Previously, she received her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Her former composition teachers included Stephen Lucky Mosko, Arthur Jarvinen, Michael Jon Fink, Bob Clendenen, and at Augustana College with Tim O’Dell. She has studied Balinese music with I Nyoman Wenten.
