Vibrations and how they get to your ears.
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Nick Seaver: Ciara Study #13
This is one of the Pop Studies I worked on a few years ago. I was playing around with compositional strategies based on work by various 20th century composers and my digitally-enabled capabilities.
This piece is based on a short sample from the song “Other Chicks” by Ciara, off of Goodies. I played around with loops of it, transposing them and phasing them against each other. This is one of the resulting recordings of essentially improvised loop-playing. It’s not perfect, but hey, that’s why I can call them “Studies,” right?
Steve Reich: “Pendulum Music”
Performed by Nick Seaver
(photo via vickyzmr)
Here is a recording of me performing (“setting up?”) Steve Reich’s “Pendulum Music” in my summer sound class. There is a little pedagogical interlude in there as I answer some questions from the class, and I stop the piece before it is technically done, but hey, now it’s only 1:34 of microphone feedback instead of 5:00. (At the end, I say we’re going to do another version, with a different angle for the speakers, but it appears I managed to not record that one. Oh well.)
A great photo from my summer sound class of an in-class performance of Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music (you can see my stick figure John Cage in the background). Making me nostalgic for class already!
Seeing this in her Flickr stream reminded me that I’ve yet to upload the audio recording of this performance. Maybe tomorrow…
(via one of my students, vickyzmr)
