Net Music

A series of sound pieces that are websites and vice versa. These are made from raw mp3 and ogg files, HTML and Javascript. Turn speakers on and click on the links below. Not functional on mobile devices.

I wrote a very short essay on this project here.

After Flavor

Sometimes

Chord

Purity

MMM

Slow Jungles

Wash

Study #9 ("Nibbles")

Study #7 (Recent Funk)

Study #5

Study #3 (Windows Plus)

Study #2 (Semi Natural White)

Smooth Breeze

An expanding portfolio of projects concerning Smooth Jazz and Smooth Jazz Culture.

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Kung Fu

Since 2011 I have been practicing (and recently teaching) Kung Fu.

I am studying and living with Grandmaster Wang Rengang of the International Dachengdao School.
We focus on Dachengquan and Hao Family Taiji Plum Blossom Praying Mantis.

Cigarette Life

Starting in 2012 I have worked occasionally for a research company conducting surveys on tobacco displays in stores (indirectly for state governments). I spent time in various parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida and North Dakota. I started a tumblr to document some of these moments.

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New City

New City is an evolving umbrella project born during a fateful trip to Mt Washington, NH. Mostly with Jeff Sisson.

Visit newcityplace.info for more information.

Quartet with Pyramid Scheme

With Eric Laska, Richard Kamerman, and Reed Evan Rosenberg

March 11 - July 1, 2011

A streaming sound piece whose sound material is collected through a sixteen-week pyramid scheme. Every two weeks, the new set of participants submits samples that the composers will selectively work into the stream. The samples are played continuously in unpredictable variations through a max/MSP patch. By the end of the process, 512 participants will be asked to contribute.

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"Quartet with Pyramid Scheme" was a 2010 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.

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funvac

An audio blog consisting mostly of discarded recording excerpts and found bits of sound. Original contributors include Ian Fraser, Reed Evan Rosenberg, and Eric Laska.

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A Coney Island of the Mind

A temporary broadcast on Coney Island
April 16, 2011.

A local FM transmission on the occasion of Astroland's reopening in April 2011, using Hong-Kai Wang's field recordings from the older Astroland (made in 2006-7). Part of a larger collaborative project including a forthcoming book. Collaborators include Hong-Kai Wang, Anne Callahan, Brendan Dalton, and Jess Wilcox.

Alicia

With Eric Laska

January 2010

The Silks Building - Long Island City, Queens
Part of Sonik Fest 1.0, hosted by Dutch Kills / Climate Gallery

An improvisation / sound installation using sounds taken from the ongoing festival and the building that housed it. Made with field recordings, radio transmitters and receivers, a computer, and multiple speakers, occupying several rooms.

Excerpts of Alicia recorded from various positions and times.

Quartet without Pyramid Scheme

With Eric Laska, Richard Kamerman, and Reed Evan Rosenberg



Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn NY
September 5-26, 2009

The first outing of the 'quartet' and its improvised sound installation format. Field recording samples were played continuously and in indeterminate variations through Diapason's two-room, 20-channel sound system. Through the piece's duration, the four artists took turns altering the sound's composition by recording new samples, removing old ones, and remixing the existing sound. No changes to the software or recordings were made. The following scheme governed the turn-taking for recomposing the piece:

. . . . . . . Gallery . . . . . . Lounge
Week 1 . Paul . . . . . . . . . Paul
Week 2 . Rosenberg . . . . Paul + Rosenberg
Week 3 . Laska . . . . . . . . Paul + Rosenberg + Laska
Week 4 . Kamerman . . . . Paul + Rosenberg + Laska + Kamerman


Keep in mind that the following excerpts are low-quality stereo recordings of large and reverberant rooms...



Stereo excerpt from the lounge, 9/12/2009



Stereo excerpt from the gallery, 9/12/2009



Stereo excerpt from the gallery, 9/19/2009



Stereo excerpt from the gallery, 9/26/2009

D'Egg

With Eric Laska

July 2009
The Scultpture Center - Long Island City, Queens

A multi-channel sound installation in two spaces (in the pictured truck and other isolated sound sources in a nearby interior space) plus FM/streaming broadcast. Made with field recordings taken on site.

Document

June 2009
The Work Office - New York, NY

A continuous five-channel sound installation. Sound material included field recordings from the Staten Island Ferry, electromagnetic recordings from a cell phone, and previously discarded recordings of an audio cable malfunction.

A stereo excerpt of Document.

Septet

My final student composition for violin, cello, flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, and percussion in 2008.
Thanks to the Talea Ensemble performers and conductor Carl C. Bettendorff. Watch out for unintended distortion in the recording.