Sts. (2019) is an 8-channel installation work comprised of recordings made over a 15-year period on differing Serge Modular systems recorded at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, the Columbia Computer Music Center, Elektron Musik Studion (EMS), the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Harvard University Studio for Electro-Acoustic Composition (HUSEAC), and Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) convolved with fragments of spoken, recitative, and extra-textual verbal communication.

Partly an homage to formative speech-transformation works (especially Herbert Eimert’s “Epitaph für Aikichi Kuboyama”) the mapping of the frequency spectra of time-aligned formants to a catalog of full-range synthesizer signals yields a warm, attenuated field of sustained sound that ebbs through each space at a modest volume, inviting the listener to dwell on individual timbres, phrases, and conversations while assessing the overall sound-field.

Utilizing a sliding, modular structure to diffuse linked stereo pairs of convolutions into 4 discrete chambers, the individual parts become groups of voices heard distinctly, overheard from the next room, or made subliminally aware via bleed-through from each adjoining space.

Available for installation (as a native Max-MSP executable) with a malleable tech-set that is designed to work within any imaginable social space and/or infrastructure; please get in touch if you are interested in staging the piece either in public or private. Additionally, one possible outcome of the piece (mixed and mastered to stereo at the GRM in 2019) is available now on all of the streaming apps & platforms, as well as on a “Private” 2CD edition for you to audition at home and/or consider; please visit the Editions page for more info.

Stagings:

Remote Viewing, Philadelphia; April 28th, 2019.