grid1 (2014)

for clarinet, percussion, and computer.

The Washington Square Ensemble: Alex Lipowski, percussion / Alan R. Kay, clarinet / J. Oliver, computer
presented on april 2014 at the Tenri Institute, NYC. Washington Square Contemporary Music Society 2014

Video edited by Federico Cámara Halac @ the NYU Waverly Labs

Program notes:

grid1 refers to the problem of fitting sound material into the grids of bars and holes, pitches and durations; of measuring time in discrete integer divisions. A computer program written in Pure Data was used to generate the musical material of this work and then it was translated into a musical score using an early version of the software notes and lilypond. grid1 explores the outcomes of a system in equilibrium, of events floating without directionality. The real time interactive computer system uses William Brent’s timbre-id software to classify percussive attacks and uses them to generate sounds that shift between rhythmic patterns and timbre.

Download:

version 1, for clarinet and percussion

Score (pdf, ly), Performance notes (pdf), Patch (pd)

version 1.01, for saxophone and percussion

Score (pdf), Performance notes (pdf), Patch (pd)