The Ambient Garden, for Park(ing) Day Eugene
This collection of tracks was installed as a part of Eugene’s first Park(ing) Day on September 19, 2024. Played over headphones in a parking space on Olive Street, the Ambient Garden evoked the pastures and meadows that were present before Eugene became a city. It draws on electronic pieces from Halogen Dreaming, Fog & Expectations and Randomisations, using a backdrop of field recordings from three freesound artists (Bruno Auzet, Bethany Ferrell and Klankbeeld).
Numinous
Numinous premiered December 21, 2019 for the closing of Peter de Swart’s exhibition by the same title at the Lucid Art Foundation gallery. It’s slowly evolving textures instill a progression of emotions; this is the result of subtle shifts in musical modes originally “discovered” a thousand years ago. Much of the sustained ambience is derived from a recording of Jay Kreimer playing an instrument he built that uses a cello bow, two strings and a metal tape measure.
Fog & Expectations
Fog & Expectations is a generative composition with melodic fragments derived from bells, tones and field recordings. It was first installed in 2011 using a San Francisco store’s backyard garden space. When installed on 6-10 stereo players, it plays indefinitely without repeating. Video of the premier is below; an hourlong portion of one installation is here.
The AudioBus
A part of Soundwave>Series ((3)), Human Street Textures was performed on the AudioBus when it went on its inaugural journey in 2008. The result of more than a year of preparation, along with sound artist [ruidobello], there were two nights of “tours”. Audio from laptop synthesizers were processed with sounds collected with a microphone directed at the passing scenery, cars and pedestrians. The resulting amalgam was then distributed up to the audience (wearing Sennheiser headphones) on top floor of the double-decker City Sightseeing bus.
deciduous
A part of the 2006 SURROUND>SOUND series, deciduous is a 15min piece that manipulates field recordings of a forest. During the performance, a “video painting” transforms very gradually, almost imperceptibly, along with simultaneous changes in the surround-soundscape. Below is a stereo version of the performance.
dwindling
A collection written at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. tree/sigh was installed on the residency’s property, in a redwood canyon, during the 2003 Open House.