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Field Perturbation Studies

<`•.°.+`•.•∆| - Field Perturbation Studies

The "Field Perturbation Studies" compositions are a generative sound art piece that explores the boundaries of time and frequency in a stereo field.

The work is generated using a system that creates randomly-sized dimensions, ranging from microsecond to multiple seconds. The dimensional vectors time range is shared across both mono channels, resulting in a temporally synchronized stereo field, although sonically isolated. Using only sinusoidal waves, the frequency range and slope of change, is conditionally generated from 1hz to 88,200hz, based on a variety of data points, and utilize aliasing to create a sweeping effect that reaches 44,100hz before reversing in frequency. The sound generated is also passed through a reverb UGEN with all parameters conditionally varied based on data points assessed in the duration of the dimensional vector, and the state of frequency shifted.

The compositions aim is to create a complex system, using relatively simple elements, and to use that complexity, in an attempt to overwhelm the listener's ability to articulate what is being heard. Ultimately leading the listener to a subconscious state of surrender, from a kind of exhaustion, or analytical fatigue. Playing off the natural tendency of people to attempt prediction of theﾠchanging pattern. Enveloping them in a dynamic, seemingly paradoxical cloud of both maximal and minimal qualities. The work is inspired by long-form artists such as ￉liane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, Yoshi Wada and Catherine Christer Hennix. As well as, other systems music pioneers like Maryanne Amacher, David Tudor, Iannis Xenakis, Florian Hecker, Yasunao Tone and Mark Fell. As well as a burgeoning modern scene, of like minded musicians, and artists exploring the very limits of temporal and audible perception. There is an included "Bonus Item" in the downloaded folder. With the compilation output of all 2,077 dimensional vectors in great detail for the "Field Permutation Study (Pointillistic)" composition.ﾠ

released January 14, 2023

David Thomason (i.e., daaavy_lazer_claw)

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Experimentik #62 / March 15. 2023 / Sergio Sorrentino, JD Zazie, StØrfan Sender

March 15. 2023 / 20:30- (doors 20:00)

3 x solo

Sergio Sorrentino - guitar and electronics

JD Zazie - playback devices

StØrfan Sender - hackbrett, electronics, microphones and folly instruments

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Sergio Sorrentino “A Superb Musician” (The Wire)

Sorrentino is acclaimed as “the best concert music electric guitarist” (Il Manifesto) and “one of the most important contemporary guitarists” (RAI Radio Tre).

As a performer he promotes the classical guitar and electric guitar contemporary repertory. As a composer and improviser his music is based on sonic research and combines elements of contemporary classical music, minimalism, avant-garde, ambient, experimental. His CD Dream - American Music for Electric Guitar (Mode Records), which includes works by Feldman, Cage, Wolff, Curran and others, was reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times by Seth Colter Walls as one of the “Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”, defining the album “of disarming beauty”.

Philip Glass published Sergio Sorrentino’s video performance of “Orphée’s Bedroom” and “Opening” on his official channels for the #glassminutes series. Orange Mountain Music released “Orphée’s Bedroom” and “Opening” as Singles on all digital platforms earning a lot of success.

Sergio plays with the great Gavin Bryars (“Sergio Sorrentino has performed many of my works for guitar, and also my ensemble pieces that include the guitar and I have the greatest admiration for his work in this respect”) as a member of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble and he plays live and in studio with Elliott Sharp, Magnus Andersson and John King.

He released a duo album with Gavin Bryars (Gavin Bryars: Electric Guitar Works”), where he plays some world premiere recordings together with the great English composer.

With the legendary American guitarist Loren Connors, Sorrentino released “Shadow”, album based on improvisations for two electric guitars.

He has worked with important composers and musicians like Christian Wolff, Alvin Curran, John Russell, Machinefabriek, David Lang, Steven Mackey, Usui Yasuhiro, Scott Fields, Loren Connors, Tim Brady, Paul Lansky and many others. Van Stiefel wrote for him “Bound” - Electric Guitar Concerto for electric guitar and orchestra. Sergio’s recording of David Lang’s “Questionnaire” has been highlighted in the Bandcamp New and Notable section and it has been included by the historian Ted Gioia in his Top 100 Recordings of 2021. As a soloist, Sergio Sorrentino started his international concert career very early and has held solo concerts and master classes in many important festivals and venues (like Yale University, Sprague Hall in New Haven, Spectrum in New York, Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana in Casa de Las Américas, Cuba, Italian Cultural Institute of Paris, Sala Biala of the Wilanow Museum (Warsaw, Poland), International Guitar Research Conference/University of Surrey (UK), Vortex in London, Performance Room of Luxembourg, Filharmonia Gorzowska Concert Hall, ON Cologne Neue Musik Festival, In Situ Art Society in Bonn, Specktrum in Berlin, Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, AngelicA Festival of Bologna, etc.).

He wrote the first book ever written about the concert repertoire for electric guitar (“La Chitarra Elettrica nella Musica da Concerto”, Arcana Edizioni) and several other books and articles about guitar history. He is Guitar Professor at the Conservatory of Cosenza.

https://sergiosorrentino.bandcamp.com/

photo © Donatello Lorenzo

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JD Zazie is an experimental DJ, avant-turntablist, sound artist and curator based in Berlin.

Coming from a DJ and a radiophonic background JD Zazie has explored different approaches to real-time manipulation of fixed recorded sound. In her work she redefines DJ and electroacoustic activities. As a solo performer, in small groups, and in large ensembles, she works in an area which is constantly stretching the borders of what could be defined as DJ mixing, free improvisation and composed music.  She is a member of Reanimation Orchestra, plays regularly solo and duos with Heidrun Schramm and with Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø.

She is the art director of the MuseRuole - women in experimental music festival, a member of the Burp Enterprise collective and broadcasts monthly on Colaboradio and on Reboot.fm.

https://jdzazie.tumblr.com

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StØrfan Sender: Artist with a day job and far too many interests. Sporting an improvisational and rather playful approach to electro-accoustic music.

https://stoerfansender.de

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Experimentik 2023 is supported by inm

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