New Piece Premiere at Electronic Music Midwest

As previously posted, I've been invited to premiere a new work at the KcEMA- curated concert this Friday evening at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival.

My new piece, Shuffle No. 1, is a short exploration of the Shuffle mode of listening to electronic tracks. Here are the program notes:

The Shuffle pieces take the sounds that surround us—music, landscape, noise—and use the randomizing shuffle mode, in both the construction and presentation of the pieces, to defamiliarize them and present them in new ways. The sounds are recorded and then divided into fragments as small as 1/8 of a second each. These segments are randomly sequenced back together and then shuffled in performance. The primary sounds in Shuffle No. 1 come from the gorgeous hymn, “O Salutaris Hostia” by Pierre de la Rue (1452—1518). The fragmenting and chance ordering of the normally fluid, continuous, and structured sounds creates a rich tapestry of its own. The use of the shuffle mode in playback makes each performance unique.

The concert begins at 8pm, this Friday (Sept. 30) at the Performing Arts Center at Kansas City Community College. It should be a fascinating show!