photosinebank is a piece for the 16-CdS and laptop. The performer controls swells of sine-wave clusters by casting shadows on the controller. This performance was recorded at the Audiotheque in Miami, FL as part of their Year-End Fest on December 26th, 2013. Listen to it here.
mixer things is a set of three improvisations on a Mackie 1202-VLZ3 and a laptop. Tones produced by routing the mixer's output signals to it's input jacks are recorded and layered by the laptop.Listen to it here.
Max Hammer, animation Carlos Dominguez, music/sound
Synopsis: Secrets of life explained through the persistance of vision.
Drawing inspiration from insect swarms and fog, the music for Understory swells in and out of tonalities and microrhythms that accent the world around the animation's protagonist. Multiple delay lines create these clouds of sound using only two samples - a low E on an electric guitar and a Bb on a Cherokee flute - transposed and polyphonically layered.
Music composed by Carlos Dominguez accompanies a video of a ski run by Max Hammer. The music is composed of harmonica and accordion samples taken from a session of improvisation with Phillip Hermans. Special thanks to Jessica Thompson for letting us use her accordion.
