Recitals
Erik Carlson, violin (mostly)
patterns, algorithms, sonifications, objects, concepts, etc.
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Postponed performances
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A 61-note pitch string in which every set class occurs at least once, if I can find one
(here is a 62-note string that I played on September 23, 2020.)
TBD
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Deriving the interval the Atom of Kirnberger
(2 players alternate pitches from the score, overlapping each other)
score
TBD
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A series of similar melodies over chord progressions consisting of every permutation of the chords d e F G a (always beginning and ending on C)
from Joseph Riepel's "Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst" Book II
about
TBD
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A polyrhythm 1:2:3:4...999:1000, with a single full cycle equaling 1 year in duration
I will play an hour excerpt in real-time, assuming the cycle began at midnight on January 1
TBD
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A tone is sounded during second N if there are 2 and only 2 identical digits in the base-10 representation of N
TBD
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"Replace All" by Todd Moellenberg
An initial random note string has a Markov chain process applied repeatedly until only a single pitch remains
TBD
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2 chord progressions with slowly migrating pitch centers from Giovanni Benedetti's "Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum"
about
TBD
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My friend Eddie Davis and I will each choose a frequency and duration and share them with each other.
Then we will both listen to the tone which is halfway between our chosen frequencies, for a duration halfway between our chosen durations
TBD
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Past and scheduled performances
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XOR tone: when playing intervals with two integer-HZ frequencies, a PD patch will play the frequency of the bitwise XOR operation applied to the two tones
April 7, 2021, 3:00pm
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"Random Partials (1-7th harmonic) Version I" by Håkon Thelin
(random natural harmonics on a scordatura violin played in unison with the same notes on an equal tempered piano)
April 6, 2021, 3:00pm
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1000 harmonizations (played on piano) of a descending semitone gesture (played on violin)
as found in repertoire composed before 1980
April 5, 2021, 3:00pm
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A sustained tone in an extremely resonant basement hallway on campus, with an extremely slow vibrato,
in an attempt to create a 1 Hz difference-tone pulsation between the violin and the reverberation
March 23, 2021, 2:00pm
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Passages from Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for violin which have rhythmic patterns that correspond to the binary numbers 1-1000
(A note onset for 1, a sustain or rest for 0)
March 22, 2021, 3:00pm
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An imagined year-long glissando from A3 to A4 (beginning at midnight on January 1). I will make it audible for an hour.
March 19, 2021, 3:00pm
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For the next month, I will start each morning by tuning a 12-note chromatic cluster in PD, in whatever tuning feels good in the moment.
(I'll save the results from each tuning for comparison at the end of the month)
March 10 - April 10, 2021, morning
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Using a simple PD patch, I will find the largest interval I can hear
March 3, 2021, 3:00pm
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The sound of space-filling curves: using the method described by Herman Haverkort
applied to a microtonal scale in the violin range
March 2, 2021, 3:00pm
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On each second, a glissando between 2 pitches in the 2-octave range D#4-C6 (on the D string)
all pairs of pitches in random order
March 1, 2021, 3:00pm
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Complementary phrases of 20-beat duration, each beat a tone or rest (reversed on the second phrase of each pair)
Phrases alternate pitch E4 and a microtone above E4 for the complement.
February 28, 2021, 3:00pm
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A sequence of 12-note phrases (played without pause at tempo 120)
in which in phrase N, six notes are the same as phrase (N-1), and six notes are different (chosen and reassigned randomly)
February 27, 2021, 3:00pm
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Sonification of the proportions of line and space (measured vertically) on staff paper from scans of historical manuscripts of compositions that I like
February 26, 2021, 3:00pm
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A field recording plays back one second at a time (via PD patch), with 1 second spaces for me to record imitations of what I just heard.
At the end, both the original recording and my imitations (stitched together) play back simultaneously
February 25, 2021, 3:00pm
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A speaker reads random numbers between 1 and 20.
Using a PD patch and some voice recognition software, after reading number X, I will be cued X seconds later to play a short tone
February 24, 2021, 3:00pm
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Pairs of tones, played 30 seconds apart, one second in duration, that differ by a microtone
February 23, 2021, 3:00pm
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The opening phrase of Bach's Chaconne transformed with 100 random pitchclass mappings
February 22, 2021, 3:00pm
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A transcription of the car horns from a recording of a New York City intersection I used to live on, played pianissimo
February 21, 2021, 3:00pm
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Sustained frequencies that would create theoretical standing waves
around the Earth (based on geography and climate)
February 20, 2021, 3:00pm
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A series of phrases, each 1 minute in length, in which the tones, if placed on a frequency/time grid,
would have a center of mass at 440 Hz and 30 seconds
February 19, 2021, 3:00pm
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51-note pitch cycles containing every 6-note set-class plus one duplicate
(I'll play one cycle with each possible duplicate)
February 6, 2021, 3:00pm
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The complete super-saturated all-trichord set-class chain cycles
Hat tip to Matthew Barber
February 1, 2021, 3:00pm
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A series of phrases: for each phrase N, the binary representation of N (1=G4 0=rest)
simultaneous with it retrograde (1=A4 0=rest)
January 31, 2021, 6:00pm
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Skolem sequences (n=12) with a simple number to pitch mapping
January 30, 2021, 6:00pm
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Various permutations of stacking the 8 intervals between a unison and a fifth (inclusive) into a 3-octave span,
playing only the highest and lowest pitch of each interval (adjacent intervals do not share a pitch)
January 27, 2021, 3:00pm
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410 Hz sustained for 40'39" resulting in 999990 vibrations
January 26, 2021, 3:00pm
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997 Hz sustained for 16'43" resulting in 999991 vibrations
January 25, 2021, 3:00pm
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392 Hz sustained for 42'31" resulting in 999992 vibrations
January 24, 2021, 3:00pm
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200 Hz sustained for 333331 beats at tempo 4000 bpm resulting in 999993 vibrations
January 23, 2021, 3:00pm
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207 Hz sustained for 21739 beats at tempo 270 bpm resulting in 999994 vibrations
January 22, 2021, 3:00pm
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196 Hz sustained for 199999 beats at tempo 2352 bpm resulting in 999995 vibrations
January 21, 2021, 3:00pm
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501 Hz sustained for 33'16" resulting in 999996 vibrations
January 20, 2021, 3:00pm
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757 Hz sustained for 20'01" resulting in 999997 vibrations
January 19, 2021, 3:00pm
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254 Hz sustained for 65'37" resulting in 999998 vibrations
January 18, 2021, 3:00pm
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297 Hz sustained for 56'07" resulting in 999999 vibrations
January 17, 2021, 3:00pm
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A tone for the duration that daylight is longer today than it was on the winter solstice
January 16, 2021, 3:00pm
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1 group of 2 groups of 3 groups of 4 groups of 5 groups of 6 groups of 7 notes
(on a single pitch (D4) at ~200 bpm, with pauses between pitches 1/2 second per level of group boundary)
January 15, 2021, 3:00pm
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A short repeated dyad sequence that slowly migrates downward in pitch (6125/6144 every cycle)
It will take me an hour or so for it fall below the range of the fingerboard.
January 14, 2021, 3:00pm
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A 1/N chance of playing a tone during second N
until 10 tones have been played
January 13, 2021, 3:00pm
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Various historical tunings of Greek tetrachords
January 12, 2021, 3:00pm
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A series of 1-minute phrases. For each phrase, 8 lines randomly pass through a 4-octave x 1-minute pitch/time grid.
Where two lines cross, I will play a tone at the corresponding pitch/time.
January 11, 2021, 3:00pm
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A 1-hour catalogue of 5-limit intervals to A4 derivable by ear (through a sequence of tunable intervals) on the violin
January 10, 2021, 3:00pm
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A catalogue of opening sonorities of 300 historical pieces for unaccompanied violin
January 9, 2021, 3:00pm
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Sonification of the date of Easter each year (day of year mapped to pitch)
Hat tip to Miller Puckette
January 8, 2021, 3:00pm
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A series of intervals determined by a game of dominoes. The 2 numbers on each tile give the ratio of the interval from the previous note (first note D4).
Tiles with a blank are rests and the intervals resume from the last note. Intervals are descending if possible, ascending if not.
(solo violin with electronic record/playback)
January 7, 2021, 3:00pm
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First species counterpoint exercises from various historical manuals
(played on viola)
January 6, 2021, 3:00pm
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A ~60 Hz tone from an electric outlet played from the Left Stereo Channel, and a digital 60 Hz sawtooth wave from my computer played from the Right Stereo Channel
January 5, 2021, 3:00pm
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I now own 50 unique violin mutes. I will play a 20-second tone (E4) with each mute, followed by a 10-second rest while I change to the next mute.
January 4, 2021, 3:00pm
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Dry spaghetti chords: a piece of dry spaghetti is broken by bending it from the 2 ends (this usually results in around 4 pieces).
The resulting pieces are placed below a camera, the image is processed, and the data is fed into a PD patch
which plays a chord with frequency-ratios equal to the length-ratios of the pasta pieces
January 3, 2021, 3:00pm
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On second N, the smallest least-reoccuring digit in the base-12 representation of N
using a simple digit-to-pitch mapping
January 2, 2021, 3:00pm
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A tone during second N if N has only one odd decimal digit
January 1, 2021, 3:00pm
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Transcription of me typing: a tone every time I press the space bar,
as recorded during periods when I'm writing emails on the day before the performance
December 31, 2021, 3:00pm
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Transcriptions of running my finger slowly across all the tines on all the plastic combs I found in my local drugstore
December 30, 2020, 3:00pm
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I will take requests of 1-second duration tones (requests in the form of [start-time, pitch], within the span of an hour and within the range of the violin)
and play as many as physically possible (prioritizing those that were requested first) during the hour-long performance
December 29, 2020, 3:00pm
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As Ellie repeatedly builds houses of cards until they collapse, I will sustain a pitch equal to the current number of standing cards
(G3 = 1 card and every 1/4 tone above G3 for each additional card)
December 28, 2020, 3:00pm
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Deepest-level interval: listing every pitch in the Bach G minor Sonata in order (with chords in the order from bottom to top);
then listing the interval between each pair of pitches; then the interval-difference between each of those intervals; and so on,
until one reaches a single interval that generates the whole piece. I will play that interval.
December 27, 2020, 3:00pm
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A tone with the wavelength of my height when I woke up, together with a tone with the wavelength of my height at the time of the performance
December 26, 2020, 3:00pm
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Tuning my violin strings based on various historical Italian church organ tunings of A4,
as compiled by Bruce Haynes in his book "A History of Performing Pitch"
December 25, 2020, 3:00pm
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Transcription of 1 day of my refrigerator running, recorded and sped up to 1 hour duration
December 24, 2020, 3:00pm
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A sonification of bead positions at each step of calculating the cube root of 100 on a soroban abacus
December 23, 2020, 3:00pm
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Sonification of a superpermutation for n=7 of length 5906
discovered by Greg Egan and Robin Houston
about
December 22, 2020, 3:00pm
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A tone at the end of an hour, that has the same proportion as the day of the performance to my life's duration so far
December 21, 2020, 3:00pm
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Every permutation of bowing (tying) an 8-note phrase as enumberated by Joseph Riepel in his "Gründliche Erklärung"
about
December 20, 2020, 3:00pm
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Using current local weather measurements for calculation, I will sustain an interval that has a difference tone with wavelength 1 km
December 19, 2020, 3:00pm
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The average frequency of each organ work by Bach
(electronic playback)
December 18, 2020, 3:00pm
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A sequence of pitches that has, as subsequences (not necessarily continuous), all permutations of the 12 pitch classes
December 17, 2020, 3:00pm
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Various paths (which do not cross themselves) on a 12x12 pitch/duration grid
from corner (C4, 1 beat) to opposite corner (B4, 12 beats)
December 16, 2020, 3:00pm
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A series of melodies derived by iterations: beginning with a one-octave ascending chromatic scale
and then repeatedly selecting a point (chosen randomly), removing all tones before or after (chosen randomly) that point, and then
either reflecting or repeating (translating) (chosen randomly) the remaining notes across that point,
with the restriction that after each iteration, all 12 pitches must still be present.
December 15, 2020, 3:00pm
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Sonification of the logistic map, for various values of r
(iterated values used as sample values for the waveform; sample rate TBD)
(electronic playback)
December 14, 2020, 3:00pm
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Ever note, not in the key of C major, from Bach's C-major Sonata (played in realtime)
December 13, 2020, 3:00pm
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A series of rational harmonies determined by turning over playing cards.
Add one card at a time alternately to 2 piles, which are linked to 2 sine tone frequencies,
which are each tuned to 5 times the current card-pile sums (A=1, ..., K=13) Hz.
December 12, 2020, 3:00pm
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Repeated iterations of Christoph Schröter's algorithm to approach an equal tempered scale with rational ratios
(electronic playback)
about
December 11, 2020, 3:00pm
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Complete regular complementary canons of maximal category (RCMC) of length 108
as compiled by Harald Fripertinger
December 10, 2020, 3:00pm
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The 1540 possible melodic combinations of 19 B's and 3 C's
as described in Athanasius Kircher's "Musurgia Universalis", Book VIII
about
December 9, 2020, 5:00pm
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Short repeating interval sequences on the violin that never repeat a pitch (I)
[E1] 3:4 [A2] 3:4 [D3] 3:4 [G4] 6:5 [D2] 8:5 [A3] 6:5 (if possible; else 5:4) [E1]
([string and finger] followed by interval ratio)
December 8, 2020, 3:00pm
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Sonification of the prime factorization of the numbers 2 through 100
For each number N, a series of N pitches. The baseline pitch is E4.
If, for example, the prime factorization of N consists of the numbers A, B, C, and D in ascending order,
every Dth note is raised one half step; ever (C*D)th note is raised another half step, and every (B*C*D)th note is raised yet another half step.
December 7, 2020, 3:00pm
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Every palindrome (however brief) in the Bach Sonatas and Partitas
(maintaining voicing, duration, dynamics, etc.)
December 6, 2020, 3:00pm
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Every dominant seventh chord in the Bach Sonatas and Partitas
(maintaining voicing, duration, dynamics, etc.)
December 5, 2020, 3:00pm
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An audio hourglass: during each second N of an hour, an interval is played (with sinetones)
which is the closest interval to a 3:2 fifth in N-EDO tuning
December 4, 2020, 3:00pm
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Every phrase of 8 articulated pitches (simultaneous and/or sequential), such that
every pitch is no more than one beat OR one half step removed from another of the 8 pitches.
(The lowest pitch of beat 1 is C4; played at 100 bpm; played on a piano)
December 3, 2020, 3:00pm
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Sonification (as melodic lines) of a 1-dimensional cellular automata, in which at each step:
a cell takes on the value of the product of its left neighbor + 2 and its right neighbor +1, mod 13
((L+2)x(R+1))%13; 100 cells which loop around
December 2, 2020, 3:00pm
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A sonic clock that plays a chord for each second N of the day
composed of the components of the prime factorization of N as partials of the fundamental 20 Hz, with repeated primes multiplied together.
(for example, second 1200 has prime factorization 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5. Tones are (2*2*2*2), 3, and (5*5) times 20 Hz = 320 Hz, 60 Hz, 200 Hz)
December 1, 2020, all day
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A record/playback loop that overlays 48 passes through a 60-second duration
During each pass, I will play a short tone during what I perceived to be the largest silence from the previous loop.
The pitch of each tone will begin at G3 and ascend one half step each tone.
November 30, 2020, 3:00pm
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Every phrase of 6 articulated pitches (simultaneous and/or sequential), such that
every pitch is no more than one beat and one half step removed from another of the 6 pitches.
(The lowest pitch of beat 1 is C4; played at 100 bpm; played on a piano)
November 29, 2020, 3:00pm
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A game, in which a frequency (cosine wave) is pulsed once every 5 seconds, starting with only 1/2 cycle, and adding 1/2 cycle each repetition
(the sample values during the rests remain at the last value of the wave, preventing digital clicks)
The first player to guess which pitch is being sounded (by pressing that note on a keyboard) gets a cookie for that round
November 28, 2020, 3:00pm
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An ascending sequence of low fundamentals (1 Hz - 60 Hz)
for each fundamental: all partials sounding with inverse-ratio amplitudes (for 30 seconds),
followed by the same partials/amplitudes but every frequency +1 Hz (also 30 seconds)
November 27, 2020, 3:00pm
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A series of 3-frequency chords (sine tones), whose frequencies are in the ratios of the sides of rational triangles with increaing whole-number areas
November 26, 2020, 3:00pm
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A series of performances throughout the day where I play the sonorities of each Bach Sonata/Partita in the order/timing they appear in each of the other Sonatas/Partitas
(each articulation of a new pitch/harmony in the "played" sonata/partita is found (in order) in another sonata/partita and sounded using the timing of the latter sonata/partita, until the latter is over)
November 25, 2020
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An imagined sequence of ascending pure 3:2 fifths beginning on my birthday (age 0) and progressing one fifth each day (adjusted by octaves to stay within an octave of the original pitch)
I will play a few minutes of the interval formed by today's pitch together with the starting pitch
November 24, 2020, 3:00pm
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Melodies derived from Bach chorales, such that each note of the melody equals the sum of pitches in the corresponding chord
assuming the lowest note of the chorale is equal to 1 and each semitone above that note adds 1
November 23, 2020, 3:00pm
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The Schenkerian Ursatz for the first movement of every Haydn symphony
(played on piano)
November 22, 2020, 3:00pm
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Additive repetitions: 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.
numbers indicate repetitions of a single pitch (D4) at ~500 bpm, with ~1 second separating groups
November 21, 2020, 3:00pm
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Sonifications of truth tables for various binary logical connectives
(inputs G4 and G#4, output A4; 0=rest, 1=sounded), each played as a single sonority
November 20, 2020, 3:00pm
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Bach chorales, where each beat is independently transposed so that the soprano line always is A4
(played on a piano)
November 19, 2020, 3:00pm
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Sonifications of character strings (using a simple ASCII to pitch mapping)
created by randomly typing on various keybaords with different key configurations.
November 18, 2020, 3:00pm
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A 3-frequency chord whose 3 difference tones form a chord with intervals twice the size of the original harmony
(old interval-ratios squared are the new ratios)
November 16, 2020, 3:00pm
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A 3-frequency chord whose 3 difference tones form a chord with intervals half the size of the original harmony
(new interval-ratios are square-roots of the original ratios)
November 15, 2020, 3:00pm
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A series of 3-frequency chords which each have a strongly isographic Klumpenhouwer network with the chord composed of the resulting 3 difference tones
example
November 12, 2020, 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The 12 pitch classes, played in their order of first appearance, in each of the symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Bruckner
November 11, 2020, 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A 3-frequency chord whose 3 difference tones form a transposed inversion of the original harmony
November 3, 2020, 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sine tones with wavelengths that match common unit lengths
Centimeter, Inch, Foot, Yard, Meter, Cubit, Rod, etc
(H/T to Matt Sargent)
November 2, 2020, 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sonification of a basketball game: a tone every time the ball bounces on the floor
November 1, 2020, 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A 1-hour drone of 3 frequencies: 40 141/400 Hz, 58 331/1800 Hz, and 179 869/3600 Hz
resulting in 1000000 total vibrations, and 1 vibration of the implied fundamental: 1/3600 Hz.
Also resulting in 3 difference tones: 17 2993/3600 Hz, 138 8/9 Hz, and 121 23/400 Hz
which also produce 1000000 total vibrations, and 1 vibration of their implied fundamental: 1/3600 Hz.
October 28, 2020. 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will drive around the San Diego area and find public but secluded locations
and sustain a tone for as long as it would take the sound to theoretically reach my home from each location
October 17, 2020. Afternoon
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A set of 23 durations (1-23 beats, in increasing order),
phasing against a set of 24 pitches (G3 - F#5, in ascending order)
for one complete cycle at tempo 120 bpm
October 16, 2020. 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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In a large open field, 2 speakers set up 171.5 meters apart, producing simultaneous loud metronome clicks at a tempo of about 120 bpm
Starting next to one speaker (where the clicks will sound simultaneous), I will slowly walk to the other speaker, where the clicks will also sound simultanous,
creating a long polyrhythm from my perspective.
October 15, 2020. 4:00pm
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A series of sustained violin tones with electronics.
When each violin tone (D4) begins, a PD patch will wait a random amount of time before sounding a shrot sinetone (also D4)
which will mark the half-way point of the violin tone.
(a brief silence between each violin tone)
October 14, 2020. 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The first performance of a series in which I will play a half-second tone every second with a 1/N chance of a rest instead of a tone
with N equal to 2 for the first performance and increasing by 1 each subsequent performance.
October 13, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The 18th performance of a series in which the performers play one more repetition of a sonority than the previous performance
More information here
October 12, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Each day during my violin-practice warm up, I will tune and sustain a superparticular interval that is +1 from the day before (starting with 2:1)
September 26, 2020 - as long as I can manage it
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I will play 4 short tones, trying to play them each 1 second apart. My attempt will be recorded (and analyzed) by a PD patch.
Then, 10 minutes later, each tone will be played back but with its rhythmic error (the amount I was before or after exactly 1 second) amplified by increasing orders of magnitude
(x1, x10, x100, x1000)
September 25, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A 62-note pitch string in which every set class occurs at least once
score
September 23, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Every minute, a 16-second violin tone as near to 1000 Hz as I can guess,
the first 8 seconds as a solo; and the second 8 seconds an actual 1000 Hz electronic sine tone accompanies me.
(followed by 44 seconds of silence)
September 18, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The prescriptive pattern of Frederic Rzewski's "Les Moutons de Panurge" applied to a 48-note ascending chromatic scale
September 17, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will play my violin directly into my electric fan
and try to tune tones that are whole-number divisors and multiples of the fan's RPM
September 16, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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"Balance" by Davide Tidoni
(walking between to tone generators until their volume is perceived as equal)
September 15, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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"Feedback" by Davide Tidoni
(approaching and turning off a loudspeaker while holding a connected microphone without causing feedback)
September 14, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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2 FM radio sets take turns receiving+recording and then re-transmitting the recording of a one second sample of white noise back and forth
September 13, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A sine tone will repeatedly glissando from 200 Hz to 400 Hz over 30 - 200 seconds (randomly selected)
and my wife and I will try to guess closest to when the sine tone is at 300 Hz.
September 12, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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One example of every pitch set class that occurs in consecutive sonorities somewhere in Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin
September 11, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sets of pitches which are divisors of consecutive integers, mod 12, mapped onto the pitches C4-B4 = 0-11
September 10, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will create and perform a piece based on the first 2 parts of Jane Coppock's written description of
"Farben" from Schoenberg's op 16.
as published in her article "Ideas for a Schoenberg Piece"
(Perspectives of New Music vol 14 no 1, 1975)
September 9, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Every 30 seconds, 2 time points are randomly selected.
I will begin a tone on the earlier time point and end the tone on the later time point.
September 8, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Using photoshop and a map of my area, I created a square grid of 8x8 points and rotated/scaled the grid
until each point was on a publicly accessible location (with one corner point being in my home).
I will spend the afternoon driving to each point and playing a short tone (E4)
September 7, 2020.
House concert, San Diego
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An attempt to find the interval π:1 using the intervals described by the Wallis product
2 * 2/1 * 2/3 * 4/3 * 4/5 * 6/5 * 6/7 * 8/7 * 8/9 * etc.
and a looper pedal
September 6, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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10 years ago during the month of September, every morning when I woke up I wrote down a single pitch and duration.
I will play one each morning this September.
September, 2020.
House concerts, San Diego
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A tone when all the digits of my digital stopwatch are all either ascending (F4) or descending (E4)
(no repeated digits, and not counting leading zeros)
August 25, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Tones of the durations 1, 2, 3, 4 beats at tempos 130 bpm to 30 bpm
(decreasing 1 bpm each repetition)
August 24, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A one-hour duration that is randomly divided into equal parts tone and silence
August 23, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A complete catalogue of one-octave descending minor scales in the works of Josquin
(played in the original rhythm but without further context)
August 21, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Realtime sonification of cars passing on Neptune Place in La Jolla (seen via webcam)
E4 for northbound cars, F4 for southbound cars
August 20, 2020. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Ellie and I will drive to the desert with woodblocks, stand 343 meters apart,
and each play a regular pulse at ~60 bpm, attempting to cover each other's playing (from our own perspective) with our own playing.
August 19, 2020. 6:00pm
Anza Borrego Desert
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Transcription of a recording (slowed down 100x) of dropping 100 small rubber balls into my bathtub
August 18, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sets of 12 lines, played sequentially, each consisting of of 20 notes within a range of one octave,
randomly chosen but within the restriction that no pitch is identical in two lines on the same beat.
August 17, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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For one week, a tone (F4) at midnight if the light is on in the room directly across the communal patio from me
August 16 - 22, 2020. Midnight
My house, San Diego
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Each morning beginning at sunrise, a microphone outside my house will start taking in audio.
a PD patch will catalogue the first 16 frequencies that exceed a certain amplitude threshold function
and sustain sinetones of those frequencies softly until I wake up and turn off the chord.
August 15, 2020 - ?
My house, San Diego
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I will sustain a single pitch (A3) while a series of sinetone gestures are played by a computer
In each gesture, the computer will choose a random (microtonal) interval,
beginning so that the lower tone of the interval is A3, and glissandoing over 1 minute until the upper tone is A3,
maintaining a constant ratio between the 2 sinetone pitches.
(with a space of 10 second between each gesture)
August 14, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will sustain a single pitch (A3) while a series of sinetone gestures are played by a computer
In each gesture, the computer will choose a random (microtonal) interval,
beginning so that the lower tone of the interval is A3, and glissandoing over 1 minute until the upper tone is A3,
maintaining a constant Hz difference between the 2 sinetone pitches.
(with a space of 10 second between each gesture)
August 13, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of sonorities that each consist of 10000 vibrations
score
August 12, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The 864 ways of partitioning a 14-note set (D4 - D#5) into 7 dyads each with a unique interval class
August 9, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will attepmt to play a tone every minute without looking at a clock.
My attempts will be recorded on a strict 1-minute loop and played back, overlaid on each other, after an hour
August 7, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The first instance of each pitch class in each movement of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, played in real-time
August 6, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of phrases. In each phrase, two sine tones will start randomly far apart and converge to a single pitch (also randomly chosen) over one minute
Within the first 5 seconds, I will choose and sustain a pitch that I predict will be the final pitch of convergence
August 5, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of a recording of a conversation between two birds outside my window, slowed down to half speed (1 hour duration)
sample
August 4, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Randomly chosen sequences from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
mapped to pitches on the violin (C4 = 0), played until out of the range of the violin or until the final term listed in the Encyclopedia
August 3, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Randomly chosen sequences from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, mod 12
mapped to a one-octave range, played until the final term listed in the Encyclopedia
August 2, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of pitches that are a slowed-down replica of the digital samples of the waveform being played
6-bit samples of the violin are translated to quarter-tone pitches below and above E5 (which equals zero)
(played with the aid of a computer)
August 1, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of intervals with ratios equal to the (duration asleep):(duration awake) for each day over the last month
July 31, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A sonification of the day-of-the-month of every Thursday from 2000 - 2020 mod 7
July 30, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 60-second tones that are each subdivided into equal parts (randomly 2 - 8 parts)
and then ONE of those equal parts is further subdivided into smaller equal parts (randomly 2 - 8 parts)
and then ONE of those equal parts is further subdivided etc etc until just before the fastest division is too fast to play.
(all divisions articulated by bow changes)
July 29, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone every time there's a goal in a soccer game (randomly chosen from the 2018/2019 European Football season)
(pitch E4 for one team and F4 for the other team)
July 28, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of phrases sonifying various Boolean functions
Input data (6-bits) as note/rest sequences; output is the sounding pitch of the phrase (1 of 2 possible pitches)
(each possible input is played for each function)
July 27, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 100-beat phrases. In each phrase, 24 time points are randomly chosen.
Each time point corresponds to the start and end time of 12 chromatic pitches in ascending order.
(c start, c end, c# start, c# end, d start, etc.)
July 26, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The first movement of the Bach E-major violin sonata, with each measure's notes reordered randomly
July 25, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Polrhythmic double trills
h/t Jay Campbell
July 24, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Counting Windows for Tom Johnson by Luiz Henrique Yudo
musical patterns based on the observed layout of window panes within a frame
July 17, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Starting with a tone on G3, each subsequent beat has an equal chance of:
1) rest 2) a tone one half step higher than the previous tone 3) starting over with a tone on G3
July 15, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A repeated tone (without pause). On each repetition, the tone changes in only one of the following ways (chosen at random but within practical ranges):
1) up a semitone 2) down a semitone 3) one sixteenth note longer 4) one sixteenth note shorter 5) one dynamic level softer 6) one dynamic level louder
July 13, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Realtime sonification of the temperature of a warming glass of ice water as measured in Farenheit by a digital thermometer
32 degrees = G3, 1 semitone per degree
July 5, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Units: a 1-second tone, a 1-minute tone, a 1-hour tone
July 2, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Phrases of 23 tones, with each pitch N in phrase P determined by the equation: pitch=(P + 999999) mod (N+1)
July 1, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Electronic playback of 8-pitch sinetone chords (each sustained for 20 seconds with 5 seconds of silence)
each chord derived by starting at 300 Hz and finding the other pitches with various permutations of the intervals 4/3, 3/5, 5/4, 5/6, 7/4, 5/7, 7/6
June 29, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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For one month, a tone at the moment each day that my shadow is the shortest
Pitch determinded by the length of the shadow in centimeters
May 24 - June 24, 2020
House concert, San Diego
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A 5-limit interval of less than 1 cent, derived by ear on the violin
about
June 16, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Bowing adjacent blades of grass in a field with a well-rosined violin bow
one bow per blade
June 1, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Groups of legato tone repetitions separated by rests
Group lengths (number of repetitions) are: N^1, N^2, N^3, N^4, N^5, with N beginning at 1 and increasing by 1 every five groups
May 31, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 50-note pitch strings
each string starting on G3 and each pitch having an equal random chance of ascending a half step or staying the same as the pitch before
May 30, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A pitch string which is a canon in which a new voice starts on every note N and progresses every Nth note after that
(prime numbered pitches alternate D4 and D#4)
May 29, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A sine tone slowly fluctuates irregularly in pitch within a small range and I will try to continuously match it as best I can
May 28, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The durations 1-100 beats in random order, alternating tone and silence
May 27, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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On each second N, a 1/100 change of playing the pitch N mod 48
(G3 = 0)
May 26, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone on 100 seconds randomly chosen from the 3600 seconds in the hour-long performance
May 25, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Full-length bows on a single pitch for durations of 1 through 60 seconds in ascending order
May 24, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will play (more precisely: fail to play) this 4-note motive from Bazzini's "La Ronde des Lutins" many times,
each time I play it, for a few seconds afterwards, a PD patch will sustain sine tones of the 4 pitches that I actually hit.
May 23, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone halfway between the beginning of the performance and the pre-determined but unannounced end time of the performance
May 22, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A meandering road trip accompanied by a 2-sintone continuos drone
that is the longitude and latitude in degress times 10 Hz
May 21, 2020
Around Southern California
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1-second tones followed by 1-second silences
repeated on the violin at 1000Hz until an exact duplicate number of vibrations occurs
(as measured by a PD patch)
May 20, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Digital playback of frequency ratios that are Pythagorean triples
May 19, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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All melodies consisting of every permutation of each partition of 6 notes into 1 to 6 unique pitches
May 18, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone if I sneezed on the day of the performance before the perfomance
May 17, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone if the number of days since my birthday is prime
May 16, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Tone-based Rock, Scissors, Paper: two players play pitches simultaneously on the count of 3. F beats E, F# beats F, E beats F#.
Play until someone has won 100 times.
May 15, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Digital playback of building a 200Hz signal in 4 wave shapes (sine, square, sawtooth, triangle) 3 times each,
each time using an additive series of one of the other 3 wave shapes (12 builds in all)
May 14, 2020. 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 70-note all-pentachord pitch strings
May 12, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone every time I have the urge to look at the clock to see how long the piece has been going on for
May 11, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Ascending chromatic scales of increasing range on 2 strings simultaneously
in which one string plays increasing durations 1, 2... N
and the other string plays decreasing durations N... 2, 1
May 10, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone every time someone tries to contact me (email, text, call, DM, etc.) in realtime
May 9, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Peter Ablinger: Countdown
(choose any number to start with; count down to zero)
May 8, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Collections of pitch sets that have strongly isographic Klumpenhouwer networks
May 5, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Integer ratios of tone and silence (one ratio each minute)
(1:1, 2:1, 3:1, 3:2, 4:1, 4:3, 5:1, 5:2, 5:3, 5:4, etc.)
May 4, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A 4-octave ascending chromatic scale in which each pitch is sustained for 10000 vibrations
May 3, 2020. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone is played with frequency and duration determined by the moment it is begun to be played
Frequency (in Hz) follows the formula F = 1000 * 1/2 ^ (S/Y) and Duration (in seconds) follows the formula D = 10 * 2 ^ (S/Y)
where S is the number of seconds since 12:40pm PDT on April 30, 2020 and Y is the number of seconds in 100 years
(The pitch drops 1 octave every 100 years from the moment the piece was written, the duration doubles every 100 years)
May 2, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A violin drone accompanied by a sine tone oscillator, which follows a curve of pitch = -(1/time)+A
where A is randomly chosen to make the maximum pitch of the oscillator range anywhere from one semitone above the violin pitch to equal to the violin pitch
(random so that the moment and speed of the sine tone crossing the violin pitch is unknown ahead of time)
(the unit of time is scaled to the duration of the performance)
visualization
May 1, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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"Outside &" by Peter Ablinger:
an outside microphone transmits sound into the performance space with a slight a delay.
the performers hear the sound in headphones with no delay and imitate the outside noises so as to sound in unison to the audience.
score
April 30, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I asked people to send me strands of matieral that I could attach to a hair-less violin bow and use to play a single stroke on an open A string
(paper, leather, silk, copper, felt, for example)
April 28, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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24-note pitch strings in which pitch N is determined by rolling an N-sided die
April 27, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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An hour of invertible counterpoint
from C.P.E Bach's "Invention by which Six Measures of Double Counterpoint can be Written without a Knowledge of the Rules"
about
April 26, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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6-note ascending chromatic scale, played in various distributions of durations summing to 20 beats
April 24, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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An electronic tone every 60 seconds. I will attempt to play a violin tone 1 second before each electronic tone
April 23, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sonification of my height, measured in millimeters every hour while awake, over a period of many days
(1 semitone per millimeter)
April 21, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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60 minutes, 1 pizzicato tone per minute, each tone on a unique second within its minute, randomly ordered
April 20, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sonifications of tennis games. A tone every time the ball bounces
(unique tones for out-of-bounds, in bounds, racket, and net for both sides: 8 tones total)
April 18, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of integer frequences (in the violin range) generated by code in the programming language FRACTRAN
(code: 25/32 11/8 8/7 14/33 21/11 6/5 34/27 26/17 38/39 21/19; initial value: 441)
in memory of John Conway
April 16, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Collections of twelve 13-note pitch strings,
in which each string of a collection begins on a unique pitch
and then follows the same sequence of the twelve inversional transformations of a pitch class
(each collection uses a different sequence of inversions)
April 8, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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An hour of combinatorial dice-game minuets from Johann Kirnberger's "Der allezeit fertige Polonoisen und Menuettencomponist"
about
March 26, 2020. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The pitch during beat N is determined by which decimal digit has had the most occurances by digit N of pi
(ties are played as ascending tuplet scales within a single beat)
March 25, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Random selections from the possible melodies using permutations of 12 chromatic pitches and 5 durations (each pitch/duration combination once)
as described in Francesco Galeazzi's "Elementi teorico-practici di musica"
about
March 24, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of random pitches in a 2-octave range played on the violin
while a sine tone glissandos towards the current violin pitch at a slowly increasing rate
March 22, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 44-note all-heptachord pitch strings
March 20, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone is sounded during second N if N is a palindrome in base 2
March 16, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Excerpts from the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
by Nicolas Slonimsky
March 13, 2020. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of sets of seven 6-note sequences.
Each 6-note sequence consists of six unique ascending pitches within an octave.
In each set of seven sequences, the first sequence and the last sequence have no pitches in common, and each sequence has one pitch different from the previous sequence.
March 11, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Each minute, an additional second of tone (randomly located within the minute)
(beginning with 1 second of tone)
March 9, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The first 20 notes of each movement from the Bach Sonatas and Partitas,
each movement's opening repeated 20x, each time replacing one note with the corresponding note of the next movement
March 6, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone is sounded during second N if the digits of the base-10 representation of N are all in ascending order
March 2, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Passages from string quartets (by other people) that consist of a single exact back-to-back repetition of a shorter unit
with the Ars Combinatoria String Quartet
February 25, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Perception 1 by Michael Pisaro
(a tone, repeated in durations that reduce by 1/2 each time, until there is no perceivable difference between 2 consecutive tones)
February 20, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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78 tunings of a major ninth chord
with the Ars Combinatoria String Quintet
February 16, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sequences of pitches that begin on A4,
in which each pitch randomly either rises or falls one half step or stays the same as the previous note
until reaching A3 or A5
February 14, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Tuning the violin to A=440, then A=439, then A=438, etc.
for an hour
February 12, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Scales of N pitches
with each pitch being the closest 12-TET match to N-1 equal divisions of an octave (in exponentially-scaled pitch-space rather than frequency-space)
for N=2 to N=24.
H/T to Miller Puckette
February 9, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Legato 20-second tones that slowly transform to either 19- or 21-second tones over the course of half an hour
February 6, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Series of random pitches and durations, played simultaneously with their inversion, retrograde, and retrograde-inversion
with the Ars Combinatoria String Quartet
February 1, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A string trio visits the locations of mechanical/electrical drones around the UC San Diego campus (fans, vents, etc)
and sustains 3 additional pitches to create a major seventh chord at each location
with the Windansea String Trio
January 29, 2020. 4:00pm
UCSD campus, San Diego
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M5 transformation of Bach's D-minor partita
(with D=0)
January 25, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The 4 open strings, each plucked 100 times in every duration from 1-100 beats, ordered randomly for each string
January 22, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A circle of fifths as it approximates equal temperament with increasing accuracy
for piano trio
(strings play a sequence of pure descending fifths/ascending fourths within an octave range,
the piano sounds its equal-tempered pitch if the string pitch is the closest it has yet been to the piano pitch)
score
January 17, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Rotations of various sets of points on a time/frequency grid
(avoiding any rotations that result in impossible tone simultaneities)
January 14, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Intervals of less than 1 cent, derived by ear on the violin
about
January 10, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of phrases, each consisting of two tones with their start and end points independently chosen from a set of 10 time points
all combinations, played in random order
January 6, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sonification of the activity on a public staircase
each step mapped to a pitch; from a live video feed, a pitch is sounded matching the highest step with a foot on it
January 4, 2020. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A 3-limit interval of less than 1 cent, derived by ear on the violin
about
December 22, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone (C4) during second N if N is a complex prime, a different tone (D4) during second N if N+i is a complex prime
November 26, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A pizzicato tone for one beat duration at every tempo from 1 - 200 bpm
first in ascending order then in random order
November 21, 2019. 7:00pm
Combinatorix Salon Series, San Diego
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Strings of pitches (created from variously-sized sets of notes),
which when played as a 4-part canon with a delay of 1 note between each voice
sound each unique harmony of 1, 2, 3, and 4 pitches (those which are possible from the set) once and only once (pitch doublings ignored).
with The Ars Cominatoria String Quartet
November 16, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The first phrase of the opening melody of every minuet by Haydn
November 12, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A sonification of the distance I was from the place of my birth during my life so far
one week = one beat, one quartertone = 100 miles
November 7, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Part 2 of series of exercises to derive increasingly small superparticular tuning ratios by ear on the violin
by Christopher Otto
October 25, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will sustain my A string, tuned at the start to 441 Hz, until it falls to 440 Hz
October 17, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of pitches: the pitch of note N is the pitch P (1-12) (which has already been played T times)
which has the lowest value of T * P
(hat tip to Miller Puckette)
October 16, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Output of a program to give the retrograde-inversion of pitch strings,
using Stephen Sykes's music-based esoteric programming language Choon
about
October 14, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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One million vibrations II:
400 Hz sustained for 41'40"
October 12, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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One tone repeated every 10 seconds, moving one degree clockwise around the audience for each repetition
October 10, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various paths that completely fill a 12x12 pitch/pitch (1 octave x 1 octave) lattice (each point played sequentially as a dyad)
October 9, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sets of famous melodies that are note-anagrams of each other
October 7, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sonifications of sequential phone numbers from full pages of old phonebooks
using a standard numeral-to-pitch mapping
October 3, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various combinations of slurred and detached noets
from Edmund van der Straeten's "The Technics of Violoncello Playing" (1905)
about
September 30, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Numerous sonifications of the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4
utilizing various musical parameters
September 25, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Pitches (microtonal, 1/2 second duration), 8 seconds apart
alternating pitches chosen by me and pitches chosen randomly by a computer
September 23, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Specific pitches which are absent in movements of various famous works
September 19, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A 4-octave ascending chromatic scale
Each pitch starts niente and very slowly crescendos. When a blindfolded listener onstage with me indicates they can hear each pitch, I move on to the next pitch
September 16, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various 12-note phrases where each note can sustain the previous pitch or ascend one semitone
September 10, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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1000 bow changes
September 9, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone is sounded during second N if the binary representation of N has more 1's than 0's
September 6, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of exercises to derive increasingly small superparticular tuning ratios by ear on the violin
by Christopher Otto
September 5, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Permutations of a hexachord as described in Marin Mersenne's Livre du chant in "Harmonie universelle" (~1636)
about
August 31, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various paths of a double-pendulum, sonifying the end-weight position each second, mapped onto a 2-octave range
August 29, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Pitch strings that do not occur in the string quartets of Beethoven
August 27, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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SHA256 hashes of the numbers 1 - 100 using a simple character to pitch mapping
August 25, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Two sine tones that have a 1/3600 Hz difference
(hat tip to Anthony Vine)
August 23, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, Minneapolis
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A series of basic arithmetic problems in base 12 using a simple number-to-pitch mapping
(15 minutes each of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)
August 21, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, St. Paul
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Multiple series of 78 dyads [P1,P2] within a 1 octave range, systematically played, each with duration of (P1 * P2 mod N)
with increasing values for N over the course of the performance
August 19, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in Stillwater, Minnesota
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The audience will be let into the performance space at 8:00.
I will have played a 100 Hz tone in the space, for one second, alone, sometime between 7:00 and 8:00
August 16, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in Stillwater, Minnesota
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Catalogue of similar melodies II:
melodies by various composers that are very similar to the first melody in the final Agnus Dei of Josquin's Missa L'homme armé sexti toni
August 10, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, Louisville
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The Harmonics of Real Strings by John Lely
(a slow full ascent up a single string with harmonic pressure in the left hand)
August 7, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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An open-string drone recorded and simultaneously played back at 99.9% speed
August 2, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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Transcription of the most prominent frequencies in the violin range
during an hour-long recording of traffic on Interstate 5
July 29, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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Gregorian chants that are, using a simple pitch-to-digit mapping, prime numbers
July 25, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Random strings of the 2 pitches B3 and C4, followed by strings of the same 2 pitches composed intuitively by graduate students with the intent to imitate random behavior
One minute of each, alternating
July 24, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 55-note all-hexachord pitch strings
July 22, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Pitches of 200 NYC subway turnstile beeps
arranged by station, south to north; entrance, south to north; turnstile bank, left to right
July 19, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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Repeated attempts to play the maximum number of discrete staccato notes on a single upbow
by Matthew Barber
July 17, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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Catalogue of bird call transcriptions
July 14, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The beginning of a systematic list of valid code in the C programming language
sonified with a simple character-to-pitch mapping
July 11, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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A series of notes at tempo 400 npm
the pitch of each note starts at 100 percent chance of E4 and 0 percent chance D4
and changes 1 percent every 30 seconds to eventually become 0 chance of E4 and 100 chance of D4
(hat tip to Miller Puckette)
July 8, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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A tone is played during second N if all base-10 digits of N are unique
July 6, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various pitch strings containing all pitch-class sets
July 3, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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100 selections from Christoph Graupner's "Canon with 5626 Inversions"
about
performed by the Windansea String Ensemble
July 1, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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Poems by Georg Trakl, converted to binary code, sonified as the pitch D4 on the G and D string of the violin
by Johannes Kreidler
June 30, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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Various permutation algorithms applied to a chromatic hexachord
c/o David Pocknee
about
June 25, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A sonification of real roots of a sequence of Littlewood polynomials
frequency = 440 * 2^root
violin plays if -1 or 1 is a root
all other roots are sine tones played by a computer (6 seconds per polynomial)
June 22, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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An hour-long performance of J. S. Bach's "Kanon zu acht Stimmen" BWV 1072
about
performed by the Windansea String Ensemble
June 19, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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12 instruments simultaneously sustain the total duration of each pitch class in a major work by
Stravinsky, Bach, Oliveros, and Babbitt
performed by the Windansea String Ensemble
June 18, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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A series of upwardly-arpeggiated pentachords within the range D4-C#3
in which adjacent chords share no pitches and no two chords are identical
June 14, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of a stick stuck in a ceiling turbine
July 12, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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Melodies of increasing lengths with the lowest density of repeated pitch-class strings
June 8, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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Sonification of the shortest single-digit representations of natural numbers
(numbers 0-9 mapped to pitches G3-E4, +-*/^() mapped to F4-B4)
about
(hat tip to D. Edward Davis)
June 5, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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My friend D. Edward Davis and I will each begin playing a tone at the same time (in different cities)
and play for exactly as long as it would theoretically take our sounds to reach each other at the speed of sound
May 31, 2019. 11:00am (PDT)
House concert, San Diego and New Haven
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"A Long Ascent" by Madison Greenstone
(smallest possible movement of the finger up the string for each tone. 10 seconds tone, 10 seconds silence.)
May 10, 2019
High Desert Soundings, Joshua Tree
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I will sustain a single pitch
which will be repeatedly re-harmonized by a series of randomly chosen sinetone trichrods
May 4, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert in San Diego
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A tone every time any two hands on an analogue clock form a 90 degree angle
by Dan Ruccia
April 30, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A 1-hour sustained violin tone (~1760 Hz) will be recorded and played back at the end, sped up as a 12-second AM radio signal (535 kHz)
April 29, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sonification of sequential iterations of the 1-dimensional tribonacci word substitution tiling
(1=F#3, 2=G3, 3=rest)
about
April 27, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Pairs of tones, played 1 minute apart, which differ in duration by 1 second
April 22, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A new 4-pitch sonority for each audience member
audience allowed to enter the venue one at a time. each chord 1 bow in duration. chords are improvised microtones.
a duo with Nathan Williams
April 14, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Chronological recreations of the tunings of my violin strings when I open the case each morning
as recorded over a 100-day period
April 10, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of a hive of bees
April 6, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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2 players in different cities play 1-second tones (E4), with pauses in between tones, until they play at the same time
(players can not hear each other, but both are broadcast into a single space where the audience is)
April 3, 2019. 7:00pm
House concerts in San Diego, Austin
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3 violinists in different cities play a series of 1-second tones every 2 seconds
in the following pattern: link
(each of the 3 audiences will hear the same pitch content but in different permutations)
March 29, 2019. 7:00pm
House concerts in San Diego, Seattle, Chicago
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Each second, a 1/2 chance for each of the pitches G4, G34, and A4 to be played
(notes sustain if repeated from the previous second)
March 26, 2019. 3:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sustaining a tone until an audience member asks me to stop
March 25, 2019. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The longest notated sonorities from each of J.S. Bach's organ works
March 24, 2019. 8:00pm
Organ rehearsal studio, UCSD
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Book 1 of Milton's Paradise Lost
sonified as an E4 for unstressed syllables and an F4 for stressed syllables
March 23, 2019. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A four octave chromatic scale (10 seconds per tone)
but if I hear any audience noise I start over
March 22, 2019. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various patterns of arranging equal amounts of tone and silence into 20-second durations
March 22, 2019. 2:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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300 first species counterpoint harmonizations of a single melody
(beginning with versions by Schoenberg from his Counterpoint book)
about
March 20, 2019. 7:30pm
House concert, San Diego
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One dimensional cellular automata - Rule 30
applied to a 100-beat rhythmic pattern
about
March 20, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Very long single-bow tones, amplified
(starting with 1-minute durations and increasing with each tone)
March 18, 2019. 7:30pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of the frequencies 220 Hz and 330 Hz
filtered from a field recording of the food court at UCSD
March 18, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Ascending tones played for the duration it would take light to reach the performance venue from locations at the moment of performance:
the sun, mercury, venus, the opposite side of the earth, the moon, mars
March 16, 2019. 7:10pm
House concert, San Diego
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"Opus 9" by Eric Andersen
(a 30-second tone which lengthens by 5 seconds for every year after the composition date)
March 16, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of a series of games of Operation
(played on the evening before the performance and recorded)
concept by Matt Sargent
March 14, 2019. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone played for the duration of 5000 heartbeats of the performer
March 14, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone is sustained if the current duration of the tone in seconds is less than
the sum of the digits in the binary representation of the total elapsed time of the piece in seconds
(otherwise rest and begin a new tone)
March 12, 2019. 3:00pm
CPMC Recital Hall, UCSD
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"aperture" by D. Edward Davis
(on a single tone, slowly moving the bow closer to the bridge with each change of bow)
March 10, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sets of 300 tones with 1 of each 300 a different pitch than the others
(the 2 pitches of each set and the placement of the unique pitch changes from set to set)
March 8, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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1 tone
2 sets of 2 tones
3 sets of 3 sets of 3 tones
etc.
(all on a single pitch, each tone 1 second duration, pauses between pitches 1/2 second per level of set boundary)
March 5, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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I will silently read through the score of Bruckner 7 in realtime at tempo
and occasionally play tones from the 1st violin part as they would sound in performance
March 1, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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"Dramatische Studie Nr. 3" by Stefan Streich
(a series of pizzicato tones, the time between each tone increases 1/2 second with each sounding)
February 26, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 6-note motives, each played in sets of the 4 classical transformations
transposed so that all pitches in a 2-octave range are sounded during each set
February 23, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Catalogue of similar melodies I:
melodies by various composers that are very similar to the opening theme of Joseph Haydn's Symphony 20
February 19, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of pitches based on the changing vertical height of a path through Enzo Mari's Progetto 1287, Labirinto
(see Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz's "Score generation with L−systems")
about
February 16, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A systematic series of polyrhythms with 6 tempos, mapped to 6 pitches (E4 - A4)
chosen such that during a full cycle no more than 2 pitches ever sound simultaneously
February 12, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Very slow detuning of the G string
by Aisha Orazbayeva
February 7, 2019. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Tones sustained for 30 seconds (alternating A3 and Bflat3)
with various durations and positions of silence midway through each tone
January 26, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of clanging from various heating pipes in New York City apartments
January 23, 2019. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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40-minute ascending octave glissando
concept by Jeb Bishop
January 19, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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8 second tones (D4) separated by 8 seconds of rest
Also an extremely soft 1 second sinteone (also D4) randomly sounded during each minute
January 15, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Single-bow tones played within the octave E5-E6 until a frequency is repeated
(accurate to within 1 Hz)
(performed with the aid of a computer)
January 12, 2019. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of a pair of shoes tumbling in an electric dryer
concept by Matt Sargent
January 8, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Each minute, 2 tones (D4 and E-flat4) are played, each for one second, each independently and randomly placed in time
December 20, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Each minute, a tone (D4) is played for one second, randomly placed in time
December 19, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A slow gliss following the equation:
pitch = 2 ^ (((4 * sin(3t) - 10 * sin(9t) + 8 * sin(7t) - 5 * sin(2t) + 1 * sin (11t) - 6 * sin (12t))/4 + 6) / 12) * 210
where pitch is measured in Hz and t measured is increments of 10 minutes
(played with the aid of a computer)
December 10, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various overlappings of the tuplets 2:3, 3:2, 3:4, and 4:3 over a duration of 8 beats
December 7, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Each second, a 1/1000 chance that a tone is played
(performed with the aid of a computer)
December 3, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Fractal expansions of common musical ornaments
November 30, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of my attempts to push my file cabinet back and forth across my office
(tone during movement, silence during rest)
November 28, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 30-second tones divided into an increasing number of equal durations (2 - 70 divisions)
separated by 10 seconds of rest
November 26, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, Louisville
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A sustained violin tone played in unison with a sine tone oscillator
(highlighting the changes in tone/pitch of the physical violin being played)
November 16, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Pairs of 11-limit intervals in which the second interval contains 1 more vibration than the first interval
vibrations measured by adding the fundamental frequencies of both pitches, multiplied by duration (A=440)
November 14, 2018. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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383542 : 399091 : 404558 : 415954 polyrhythm (partial sequence)
November 12, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Every pattern of bowing (tying) a phrase consisting of twelve quarter notes (on pitch D4)
November 10, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A sonification of recent football scores from around the world mapped to pairs of pitch classes
November 7, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone played for the duration of a tennis ball rolling on the floor
repeatedly set in motion (after a pause) by either the player (by foot) or another (by hand)
November 5, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 15-second-duration tones
each systematically subdivided into 2 shorter durations with superparticular ratios
(1:2, 2:3, 3:4, etc.)
November 3, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of pairs of phrases, each phrase consisting of alternating tone and silence
each phrase is a palindrome. pairs of phrases are inversions of each other.
November 1, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sonification of games of 3-cushion billiards (a tone each time a cushion is hit)
the 24 edge sections mapped to pitch, each ball mapped to an articulation
October 28, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A sustained violin tone attempting to play in unison with a moving sine tone oscillator
sine tone can change pitch randomly each millisecond at a maximum rate of 1 Hz per second
October 26, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Oscillating two strings back and forth slowly with fingers
to create a perfect 5th of frequencies 1/20 Hz and 1/30 Hz
October 23, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Every 4-note chord playable on the violin in first position
October 20, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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As many repetitions of a tone as there are people in the audience
October 17, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of single-bow tones with long silences in between
the performer listens to an hour-long ascending electronic sweep over the interval of an octave (inaudible to the audience)
when a new tone sounds, it is sustained at the pitch of the sweep at the moment the tone begins
October 15, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Realtime sonification of trains arriving (coming to a stop) in the Canal St. Station for an hour
each train (uptown and downtown are separate) mapped to a different pitch, pizzicato
October 13, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, Brooklyn
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Various paths of ascending pitch from A3 to A4, utilizing microtones
followed by
Various paths of increasing duration of a tone from 1 second to 10 seconds
September 28, 2018. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Kolakoski sequence on pitches B4 and C5 (repeated pitches are sustained without reattack)
September 24, 2018. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone is played during second N if all base-10 digits of N are even
September 22, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A point moving at a constant rate along a straight line drawn through a P1 Penrose tiling
pitch determined by which of the 6 tile shapes the point is in
September 19, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various paths of solving a Rubik's cube
12 pitches represent clockwise and counterclockwise turns of the 6 sides
September 17, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A sustained tone played in full bows
each bow N of duration equal in seconds [floor((sin(N)*100 - floor(sin(N)*100)) * 100)]^2 / 350 + 1
September 15, 2018. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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61 rotations of a straight line on a time/pitch grid, 5.9 degree change on each rotation
(grid dimensions: 1 minute duration maximum, 1 octave pitch change maximum)
1 minute duration for each rotation, starting at a flat-line sustained pitch for 1 minute
September 12, 2018. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of a pan of popcorn popping, slowed down to a 1-hour duration
September 10, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 7-note all-interval-class rows that are prime numbers in base 12
September 9, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Each minute, on the minute, (for 61 minutes), a tone
Duration of the tone begins at one second and increases by one second each minute
September 2, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The eight points of a cube, through various rotations
mapped onto a pitch/time grid
August 28. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone is played during second N if (N*2+1) is prime
August 20. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of randomly chosen permutations of 8 randomly chosen pitches in the range D4 - C#5 (duplicate pitches permitted)
A new set of pitches is chosen every 10 minutes
August 16, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Each new bow is a new frequency corresponding to the average pitch of a unique phrase of seagull calls
as recorded over a day in La Jolla cove
August 12, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 20-second-duration tones, each systematically subdivided into 5 shorter durations with simple integer ratios
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) (1, 2, 3, 4, 6) (1, 2, 3, 5, 6) (1, 2, 4, 5, 6) etc.
(indicated by change of bow)
August 5, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A tone: 25 beats sustain, 16 beats rest; repeated 200 times at tempo 144 bpm
July 30, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Repeated shuffling of a deck of cards (starting with a new deck)
Each suit mapped to a string, each number/face to a pitch
July 23, 2018. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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4-part all-partition arrays played on the 4 strings
(each partition played in the order left to right, bottom to top)
July 15, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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72 hours mapped onto 72 minutes
A tone is played during second N of the performance if I spoke during minute N of the 72-hour observation period
July 6, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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During each minute number M,
a tone is sustained during seconds which are multiples of numbers 2 through M+1. The other seconds are rests
June 22, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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2-voice canon at the unison
Notes in voice 1 played every beat with a duration of half a beat, pitch is D4 or E4 (randomly chosen)
second voice enters after 9.5 beats
June 19, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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20000 beats
2 nearby frequencies (played on 2 strings) phase across each other 20,000 times
(performed with the aid of a computer)
June 15, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A drone (open string) played against a pitch that oscillates (maximum of +/- a minor second from the drone)
The pitch of the oscillating note is an exact slowed-down replica of the waveform of the dyad being played
(performed with the aid of a computer)
June 12, 2018. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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2-voice prolation canons that are also palindromes
(each voice on a single pitch)
June 10, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Just intervals corresponding to the time (hours and minutes)
the performance lasts from 20:05 to 20:59
June 4, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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2-voice canon at the 5th
Voice 1 notes randomly chosen from pitches D4 - A4. Voice 2 follows after 3 notes pitches A4 - E4
Each dyad sustained for a full slow bow
June 1, 2018. 4:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of randomly-created pitch/duration palindromes of varying lengths
May 28, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcriptions of a table tennis ball falling down various stairwells
May 21, 2018. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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2-voice canon at the major second (each voice a single pitch)
Each beat, the line either sustains or rests (determined randomly). The 2nd voice enters after 10 beats
May 15, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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100 digits of pi in bases 2 through 100
using a simple digit to pitch mapping
May 10, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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2-voice canon at the major second (each voice a single pitch)
The voices alternate. A new pitch begins every 10 seconds
The duration of each pitch is randomly chosen from 1-20 beats at 120 bpm
The canon has a 10-note delay
May 8, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Oscillations of a point on the surface of the water at La Jolla Cove
slowed down and mapped into pitch
May 6, 2018. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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2-voice duration canon at the major second (each voice a single pitch)
Voices alternate each tone without overlap or gap
Each note in the line has a randomly chosen duration 1-10 beats
Identical durations in the imitating voice with a 10 note delay
May 1, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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One million vibrations
320 Hz sustained for 52'05"
April 26, 2018. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Single melody constructed from statistical anaylsis of Gregorian chants
April 15, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Deriving various commas
(greater/lesser diesis, pythagorean, syntonic, diaschisma, kleisma, schisma, ragisma, etc.)
performed with cellist Judith Hamann
April 8, 2018. 7:00pm
Bread and Salt, San Diego
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Durations of a repeated pitch taken from an r/counting "tug of war" thread.
about
April 3, 2018. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Ascending prime numbers in base 12
digits mapped to pitches
March 28, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Walking the Chartres labyrinth
pitch mapped to circuit, string mapped to quadrant, duration mapped to constant walking pace
March 21, 2018. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Paths through a 4x4x4 cube set on a pitch/duration/volume grid
March 1, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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3 alternating pitches sustained for durations of breathing stages (in, out, rest)
as measured during an hour of my sleep.
February 17, 2018. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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2 alternating pitches sustained for durations of swash oscillations at a point in La Jolla Cove
measured during an hour the day of the performance
February 12, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Alternating tone and rest (from Series for any Solo Player)
C#5 played for 20 beats at tempo 107 bpm and then rest for 7 beats at tempo 95 bpm. Repeat 162 times
January 23, 2018. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Pizzicatos on open G
played until exactly 3 seconds apart (to the nearest millisecond as measured by a computer)
January 14, 2018. 5:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Random pitches with various probability distributions
(normal, beta, exponential, erlang, chi-squared, etc.)
December 11th, 2017. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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From the tradition of change ringing, the Avalon Delight Maximus method
(applied to a chromatic scale)
about
November 27th, 2016. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Bridge hands played out, taken from the New York Times bridge column
Each suit mapped to a string, each card to a pitch
October 2nd, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of a dripping faucet
September 9, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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An oscillating pitch that is an exact slowed-down replica of the waveform of the note being played
(performed with the aid of a computer)
September 5, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of notes in which the pitch of the Nth note is deterimed by the number of factors of N.
(Prime numbers are rests)
August 14, 2017. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various sorting algorithms used to sort randomized pitches into a chromatic scale (sonifying each step)
(merge, insterstion, quick, bubble, heap, counting, shell, comb, buecket, radix, etc.)
August 1, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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9th iteration Cantor Set as a rhythmic pattern on a single pitch
July 13, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Different ways of dividing a 12-note chromatic collection of pitches into 6 unique intervals
June 28, 2017. 7:30pm
House concert, San Diego
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Pitch collections based on the coefficients of the polynomials that have a root at -2
June 19, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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An arrangment of Tristan and Isolde for solo violin where each measure is mapped onto one beat.
A tone is played if Tristan sings in the measure, and a different tone is played if Isolde sings in that measure.
June 6, 2017. 9:00pm
The Dog Star Festival, L.A.
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A softly sustained tone, amplified by the volume envelopes from a live feed of the waves at La Jolla Cove
June 4, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Small pebbles rolled down the back of the instrument (in this case a cello)
one at a time, at regular intervals, attempting to create the same path each time
May 23, 2017. 7:30pm
House concert, San Diego
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Harness sequences from classic 12-shaft weaving patterns
May 22, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Random computer-generated sine waves of frequencies 200 - 1000 Hz (5 seconds duration)
followed by my attempt to match the pitch on the violin wihtout adjustment (5 seconds duration)
May 15, 2017. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Transcription of a fly trapped in a box
May 3, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Segments of various continuous mathematical functions mapped onto an octave (as a glissando)
(each function begins at (0, 0) and ends at (60, 12), played over the course of 1 minute)
April 29, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of chess openings (with dyads indicating coordinates of moves)
April 18, 2017. 7:30pm
House concert, San Diego
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Melodies based on various texts. One tone per word.
The pitch of each tone is determined by how many times the corresponding word has been used so far in the text
April 14, 2017. 7:30pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of 48-note all-(47)-interval rows
April 11, 2017. 6:30pm
La Jolla Public Library, San Diego
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10000 repetitions of a single pitch
April 6, 2017. 7:00pm
Bread and Salt, San Diego
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Towers of Hanoi
The three stacks represented by three strings, pitch up from the open string represents stack height, duration represents disk size
April 1, 2017. 7:30pm
House concert, San Diego
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Counting - by drawing the numerals on the surface of the string with the bowhair
(wihtout losing contact with the string)
March 27, 2017. 7:30pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sonification of long division
(on 2 strings: one for the answer, one for the remainder as they develop)
March 20, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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4087:6527:7169 polyrhythm
(on 3 pitches)
March 16, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Various molecules
encoded in InChI, and translated into pitches using a simple mapping.
March 1, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Measuring time: a system that divides the day into units in base 12
Each violin string maps the units at different orders of magnitude
4-note chords tell the time. (4 open strings at midnight)
Corresponding time-chords are played at various moments throughout the performance
February 20, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A series of Knight's Tours through a simple pitch/duration grid
February 19, 2017. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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One dimensional cellular automata - Rule 110
in 2 parts:
-applied to a scale of pitches
-applied to a rhythmic pattern
about
January 17, 2017. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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The square root of 2 expressed in binary (1 = pizz open G string, 0 = no pizz)
December 13, 2016. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Sets of 200 pitches generated by various methods of randomness and pseudo-randomness
(dice, atmospheric noise, mersenne twister, card shuffle, coin flip, xorshift, roulette wheel, lava lamp, middle square, etc.)
December 3, 2016. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Spelling consecutive words from the dictionary using a simple letter-to-pitch mapping
November 19, 2016. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Reverse and add process until palindrome on various numbers in base 12
November 1, 2016. 6:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Logistic map
The frequency of the pitch on each bow (f) is based on the frequency of the previous pitch (F):
f = {[(F - 330) / 330] * (1 - [(F - 330) / 330]) * (pi + 0.8)} * 330 + 330
October 21, 2016. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Most common frequency (in the violin range) detected each day from a microphone outside my house
Monitored for one year
One bow = one day
September 15, 2016. 8:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A catalogue of notated ornaments from instrumental music of the last 500 years, arranged by contour and interval content
September 8, 2016. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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A sustained tone that rises in pitch 1 Hz each bow change
August 23, 2016. 7:00pm
House concert, San Diego
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Random pitches and durations (played softly)
(derived from random.org's atmospheric noise algorithm)
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August 3, 2016. 7:00pm
Low Gallery, San Diego
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A sonification of the first 4000 prime numbers mapped onto a chromatic scale
(P mod 13)
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July 22, 2016. 7:00pm
The silo at Bread and Salt, San Diego
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Selections from Gaylord Yost's "Exercises for the Change of Position"
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July 20, 2016. 7:00pm
The silo at Bread and Salt, San Diego
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From the tradition of change ringing, the Palatino Surprise Maximus method
(applied to a chromatic scale)
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July 18, 2016. 7:00pm
The silo at Bread and Salt, San Diego
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