#4868, Interactive Computer Music
Hear computers that interact with live human performers in work by Oakland-based Michelle Moeller, Italian composer Caterina Barbieri, and brainwave music by composer-performer David Rosenboom. Plus, sample some of a collaborative work between site-specific artist Mark Reigelman, music composer David Bird, and pianist Ning Yu, a sound sculpture called Echo Chamber, and its resulting album, Iron Orchid. And more.
A composer and performer based in Oakland, CA, Michelle Moeller uses live signals, custom effects, and computer synthesis to build and generate otherworldly digital sound via her intricate electroacoustic systems that both accompany and respond interactively to the piano. Listen to work from Late Morning, “an affectionate homage to slow movers and late bloomers,” which was recorded both at her home studio, and at Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills College where she studied Max MSP with leading electronic music composer John Bischoff, (AKP Recordings).
Then, hear music from Italian composer and musician Caterina Barbieri and her recent record, Myuthafoo, composed at the same time as her release, Ecstatic Computation, and rooted in the limitations of a small number of options that branch out into a much larger structures. Barbieri manually programmed patterns into an Orthogonal ER-101 modular sequencer, and fed them into her arsenal of noise generators, allowing patterns and pieces to transform as they sprung to life and developed organically. Listen to the title track of Myuthafoo.
There’s collaborative electro-acoustic sound art from site-specific artist Mark Reigelman, music composer David Bird, and pianist Ning Yu and the an interactive sound sculpture, Echo Chamber, from an album called Iron Orchid. Also, hear some of American multimedia composer-performer David Rosenboom’s “brainwave music” involving an extended musical interface with the human nervous system; it’s his Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones (Deviant Resonances). Plus, hear music from David Behrman, a record producer, pioneer of computer music, and a member of one of the foundational groups of American electronic composers, the Sonic Arts Union. Hear his “Leapday Night”, featuring mutanttrumpet by Ben Neill. And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4868, Interactive Computers (First aired 4/10/2024)
ARTIST: Michelle Moeller
WORK: Corridor [1:00]
RECORDING: Late Morning
SOURCE: AKP Recordings
INFO: https://michellemoeller.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Caterina Barbieri
WORK: Myuthafoo [7:00]
RECORDING: Myuthafoo
SOURCE: light-years
INFO: caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/myuthafoo
ARTIST: David Behrman, feat. Ben Neill
WORK: Leapday Night, Scenes I and II [12:24]
RECORDING: Leapday Night
SOURCE: Lovely Music
INFO: https://davidbehrmanlovely.bandcamp.com/album/leapday-night
ARTIST: Michelle Moeller
WORK: Sift [2:14]
RECORDING: Late Morning
SOURCE: AKP Recordings
INFO: https://michellemoeller.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Michelle Moeller
WORK: Corridor [3:28]
RECORDING: Late Morning
SOURCE: AKP Recordings
INFO: https://michellemoeller.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Ning Yu, piano; David Bird, electronics
WORK: Iron [9:25]
RECORDING: Iron Orchid
SOURCE: New Focus Recordings
INFO: newfocusrecordings.com
ARTIST: David Rosenboom
WORK: Portable Gold and Philosophers' Stones (Deviant Resonances), excerpt [7:44]
RECORDING: live ateliers claus
SOURCE/INFO: https://davidrosenboom.bandcamp.com/album/live-ateliers-claus
