November 6, 2011

Here's a clip of the October 28th performance of Windows Left Open for UnBalanced Connection #48 at UF. Performed by (from left ro right): Laura Maule (cello), Michael Polo (bass), Michael Smith (classical guitar), and Ben O'Brien (electric guitar). Apologies about the poor lighting, didn't seem as bad live.

October 28, 2011

Yesterday afternoon I got away from reading/writing and spent a couple hours improvising with myself on laptop. I'd record an improvisation on a sample-based hardware/software instrument, then record another take while listening to the first, and so on. After about 10 improvs (some relatively short, just to flush out the form or further differentiate the sound materials) I had this:

At least in terms of process, the exercise became a rewarding engagement with the continuum between improvisation and composition.

October 5, 2011

Windows Left Open was just premiered at Electronic Music Midwest in Kansas City, KS this past weekend. The performance went great thanks to a bunch of UMKC folk: Stamos Martin (cello), Brian Padavic (bass), Elizabeth Hougland (violin), and John Chittum (trombone). I've uploaded a recording of the performance to a new Windows Left Open project page.

June 3, 2011

Here's a video of FLIP (florida leauge for indeterminate performance) playing a set at the The Labratory back in May:

June 3, 2011

For those of you who use SuperCollider, I just posted an SC3 object called SFRand under the software page. SFRand is a random selection object that makes use of statistical feedback. It implements the algorithm discussed in Larry Polansky, Alex Barnett and Mike Winter's paper "A Few More Words about James Tenney: Dissonant Counterpoint and Statistical Feedback" (2009).

May 20, 2011

Here's a video of a collaborative transdisciplinary project, titled Percussions, which Josh Kubisz, Lu Cao, and myself performed back in April.

May 9, 2011

SEAN WAS HERE: a discoverable installation for Google Earth

Installation Documentation: SeanWasHere.pdf

• SEAN
• WAS
• HERE

May 9, 2011

Suspended Horizon

December 9, 2010

Here's something I did today. It's titled, Only this new background, a finer needle to thread.

October 28, 2010

Over the past month, I've helped (along with Thomas Royal and Jorge Variego) to organize a concert of new music written for a particular space: The Baughman Meditation Center on the University of Florida Campus. The goal of the project was to enable composers to reexamine the relationship between space and sound in a concerted way. Composers approached the project from a number of perspectives, including musical engagement with room acoustics, issues of soundscape, and exploring theoretical/philosophical connections. Seven new works were premiered in the space on October 28th, including my piece Section Drawing (for October 28th), performed by Adam Ambrose (percussion), Mike Solomon (orator), and Laura Dawidziuk (meditator).

October 16, 2010

Travelled up to Chicago for pictures with the Stanely Cup (even though I'm a Flyers fan), tailgating for a Bears game, friends, and EMM out in Romeoville, IL at Lewis University where I performed Converging no.1.2 as an installation.

June 4, 2010

• uploaded a stereo (binaural) mix of a new piece, called 88 Attempts to Linger.
• uploaded a new audio file that's a version of Converging No.1.
• uploaded two new scores: Lock/Drift (and eventually just disappear) and Follow Me Around (until we all fall down).
• and made some design tweaks to the site!

April 14, 2010

I wrote a new piece called "Follow Me Around (until we all fall down)" for the UF Wind Ensemble that's a reworking of Douglas Repetto's ideas from his audio sculpture Crash and Bloom from 2002. More info and a recording can be found here.

November 3, 2009

I went back and revised an old piece called "The Segments of the Trip Swing Open like an Orange". The new score is a lot more polished, and the sound spatialization routines are smoother. This was all done for an upcoming performance of the piece on an SCI sponsored concert happening on November 3rd at UF (Univeristy Auditorium, 7:30PM). The new score is here.

June 11, 2009

Perfomance at The Outpost 186 in Cambridge, MA. Live Improv w/guitar and laptop, followed by a version of "Converging No. 1". The performance was part of the Sidewalk Tzara concert series organized by Courtney Brown .

April 26, 2009

Released a set of selected electroacoustic works on the Red Line Park label. The release features 4 works, each exploring a different approach to representing extra-musical content directly through compositional process.

April 2, 2009

"Quarter Space" was performed at the New York City Electronic Music Festival (NYCEMF) on April 2nd at 11PM at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn.

March 27th, 2009

"Quarter Space" was performed for Patchbay, a concert of electroacoustic music, collective improvisation and live derivation at the Univeristy of Florida. 7:30PM in MUB 120.

November 18, 2008

An acoustic verison of "Chord" was performed on Horn (Becky Chambers) and Saxophone (Laura Kerslake) for a concert sponsered by the UF chapter of the Society of Composers, Inc.

October 17, 2008

"Instead of Anything, Anything" performed for the University of Florida concert series, UnBalanced Connection #43.

August 25, 2008

"Chord" performed at ICMC 2008 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

May 5, 2008

"Exercises in Speed & Delay" has been released as a download-only album available through , Rhapsody, eMusic, and Amazon mp3.

April 12, 2008

Come Fall... I'm excited to say that I'll be starting coursework for my Ph.D. in Composition at the University of Florida!

March 13, 2008

download/listen to "Exercises in Speed & Delay"; a series of 6 improvisations for laptop

February 25, 2008

made a remix of Charles Dodge's piece "Canons for Larry (123)" for round 1 of John Arroyo's Remixin project.

October 12, 2007

"Instead of Anything, Anything" performed at Electronic Music Midwest out in Kansas City, KS.

June 28, 2007

"Chord" was performed at the 2007 Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar in Enfield, NH

May 24, 2007

Discoverable Composition (pdf) - my master's thesis, where I discuss the composition of pieces where an audience is not explicitly aware of music happening in their environment.

Novermber 29, 2006

Composed a couple soundtracks for Sonia Lei's animiations: Flights of Fancy and Icarus

November 25, 2006

ICMC 2006... check out some highlights here

August 1, 2006

Take the "Electronic Music Personality Survey" here