Recitals Erik Carlson, violin

Upcoming performances (contact me about house concert attendance)

Very slow detuning of the G string by Aisha Orazbayeva February 7, 2019. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

A series of pitches based on the changing vertical height of a path through Enzo Mari's Progetto 1287, Labirinto about February 16, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

"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

I will silently read through the score of Bruckner 7 in realtime at tempo and sporadically play tones from the 1st violin part as they would sound in performance March 1, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

"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

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 13, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

One dimensional cellular automata - Rule 30 applied to a 100-beat rhythmic pattern about March 17, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

"Opus 9" by Eric Andersen (a 30-second tone which lengthens by 5 seconds for every year after the composition date) March 22, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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 26, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

My friend Nathan Williams (who will be in Seattle) and I will each begin playing a tone at the same time and play for exactly as long as it would theoretically take our sounds to reach each other April 1, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

Chronological recreations of the tunings of my violin strings when I open the case each morning as recorded over a 100-day period April 5, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

A 1-hour 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 10, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

A tone is played during second N if all base-10 digits of N are unique April 15, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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 April 19, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

A tone played for the duration of 5000 heartbeats of the performer April 22, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

Pairs of tones, played 1 minute apart, which differ in duration by 1 second April 25, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

"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

Past performances

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

Transcription of clanging from various heating pipes in New York City apartments January 23, 2019. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

40-minute ascending octave glissando concept by Jeb Bishop January 19, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

Transcription of a pair of shoes tumbling in an electric dryer concept by Matt Sargent January 8, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

Each minute, a tone (D4) is played for one second, randomly placed in time December 19, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

Various overlappings of the tuplets 2:3, 3:2, 3:4, and 4:3 over a group of 8 quarter notes December 7, 2018. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

Fractal expansions of common musical ornaments November 30, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

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

383542 : 399091 : 404558 : 415954 polyrhythm (partial sequence) November 12, 2018. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

Every pattern of bowing (tying) a phrase consisting of twelve quarter notes (on pitch D4) November 10, 2018. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

A series of 15-second-duration tones each systematically subdivided into 2 shorter durations with simple integer ratios November 3, 2018. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

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

Every 4-note chord playable on the violin in first position October 20, 2018. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

As many repetitions of a tone as there are people in the audience October 17, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

Kolakoski sequence on pitches B4 and C5 (repeated pitches are sustained without reattack) September 24, 2018. 5:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

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

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

Transcription of a pan of popcorn popping, slowed down to a 1-hour duration September 10, 2018. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

The eight points of a cube, through various rotations mapped onto a pitch/time grid August 28. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

A tone is played during second N if (N*2+1) is prime August 20. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

A tone: 25 beats sustain, 16 beats rest; repeated 200 times at tempo 144 bpm July 30, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

Repeated shuffling of a deck of cards (starting with a new deck) Each suit mapped to a string, each card to a pitch July 23, 2018. 6:00pm House concert, San Diego

4-part all-partition arrays played on the 4 strings July 15, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

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

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

2-voice prolation canons that are also palindromes (each voice on a single pitch) June 10, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

A series of randomly-created pitch/duration palindromes of varying lengths May 28, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

Transcriptions of a table tennis ball falling down various stairwells May 21, 2018. 6:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

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

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

One million vibrations 320 Hz sustained for 52'05" April 26, 2018. 5:00pm House concert, San Diego

Single melody constructed from statistical anaylsis of Gregorian chants April 15, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

Durations of a repeated pitch taken from an r/counting "tug of war" thread. about April 3, 2018. 6:00pm House concert, San Diego

Ascending prime numbers in base 12 digits mapped to pitches March 28, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

Paths through a 4x4x4 cube set on a pitch/duration/volume grid March 1, 2018. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

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

Random pitches with various probability distributions (normal, beta, exponential, erlang, chi-squared, etc.) December 11th, 2017. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

Transcription of a dripping faucet September 9, 2017. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

Various sorting algorithms used to sort randomized pitches into a chromatic scale (merge, insterstion, quick, bubble, heap, counting, shell, comb, buecket, radix, etc.) August 1, 2017. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

9th iteration Cantor Set as a rhythmic pattern on a single pitch July 13, 2017. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

Different ways of dividing a 12-note octave into 6 unique intervals June 28, 2017. 7:30pm House concert, San Diego

Pitch collections based on the coefficients of the polynomials that have a root at -2 June 19, 2017. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

Harness sequences from classic 12-shaft weaving patterns May 22, 2017. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

Transcription of a fly trapped in a box May 3, 2017. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

Segments of various continuous mathematical functions mapped onto an octave (as a glissando) (each function begins at (0, 0) and ends at (1, 12), played over the course of 1 minute) April 29, 2017. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

A series of chess openings (with dyads indicating coordinates of moves) April 18, 2017. 7:30pm House concert, San Diego

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

A series of 48-note all-interval rows April 11, 2017. 6:30pm La Jolla Public Library, San Diego

10000 repetitions of a single pitch April 6, 2017. 7:00pm Bread and Salt, San Diego

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

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

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

4087:6527:7169 polyrhythm (on 3 pitches) March 16, 2017. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

Various molecules encoded in InChI, and translated into pitches using a simple mapping. March 1, 2017. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

A series of Knight's Tours through a simple pitch/duration grid February 19, 2017. 8:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

Spelling consecutive words from the dictionary using a simple letter-to-pitch mapping November 19, 2016. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

Reverse and add process until palindrome on various numbers in base 12 November 1, 2016. 6:00pm House concert, San Diego

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

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

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

A sustained tone that rises in pitch 1 Hz each bow change August 23, 2016. 7:00pm House concert, San Diego

Random pitches and durations (played softly) (derived from random.org's atmospheric noise algorithm) about August 3, 2016. 7:00pm Low Gallery, San Diego

A sonification of the first 4000 prime numbers mapped onto a chromatic scale (P mod 13) about July 22, 2016. 7:00pm The silo at Bread and Salt, San Diego

Selections from Gaylord Yost's "Exercises for the Change of Position" about July 20, 2016. 7:00pm The silo at Bread and Salt, San Diego

From the tradition of change ringing, the Palatino Surprise Maximus method (applied to a chromatic scale) about July 18, 2016. 7:00pm The silo at Bread and Salt, San Diego