Piano improvisation on a three-chord loop, in three-part phrases. Performed 19 October 2013.

Cellphone recording de-clipped and de-noised using Izotope's RX software.

Untitled (Three chords)

Piano improvisation performed 4 July 2014.

Cellphone recording de-clipped and de-noised using Izotope's RX software.

Untitled (4 July)

A track I put together around 2007 that featured in episode 6 of The Mittenstrings, a friend's series of animated shorts.
http://www.mittenstrings.com/6.php

Features a vocal sample of a cover of "Seven Nation Army" (by The White Stripes) that I found online. (I claim no ownership of that sample!)

Risk

I wrote this piece when I was just about fed up with my Electroacoustic Composition class. I assembled it from a single field recording, and a set of sounds recorded from a Buchla 100 series synth. On the Buchla, I performed a small set of long, drawn-out gestures, like turning the frequency knob on a square wave as slowly as possible for two minutes. The piece is deliberately ugly, tedious and annoying, the title (and program write-up) intentionally pretentious. And yet, when I re-listened to it a decade later, I was prepared to cringe but actually found it kind of perversely compelling.

jblsmith