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lgOpre iOS App

david — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:00:11 +0000

Create, explore and play with sound and image using lgOpre (pronounced luh GOP ruh), an app from artist and composer David Galbraith. Like his video installation artworks the app features abstract images linked to sound with a rhythmic red dot. Generate your own graphics with a synchronized melodic soundtrack using a simple touch interface.

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John Cage Reflections (sound excerpt)

david — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:10:24 +0000

John Cage Reflections (excerpt)
sound, 2012
excerpt duration: 3:15
duration of complete work: 33:44

This excerpt is taken from the broadcast premiere of John Cage Reflections on Sept. 22, 2012 at Wave Farm in Acra, NY as part of 120 Hours for John Cage, a John Cage centennial program organized by free103point9 and the John Cage Trust.

John Cage Reflections is a work that combines spoken word with a live performance of Cage’s Cartridge Music. An actor inspired by Cage’s speaking voice reads text adapted from a 1972 interview with Cage later published as “Reflections of a Progressive Composer on a Damaged Society.” David Galbraith and James Galbraith perform the Duet for Cymbal version of Cartridge Music. Since both the voice and electroacoustic parts were composed using the Cartridge Music chance procedures involving graphical shapes and transparencies with dots, circles, lines and a circle marked like a stop-watch, the parts will at times overlap and compete volume-wise. Cartridge Music was included in the David Tudor 39th birthday concert in 1965, and on the program for a John Cage 75th birthday public performance in New York. “Cage was the first composer (with his Cartridge Music of 1960) to realize the potential of an electronic music made live in the concert hall,” wrote Michael Nyman in his book Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond.

Density (sound excerpt)

david — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:56:25 +0000

Density (excerpt)
sound, 2010
excerpt duration: 10:00
duration of complete work: 18:00

"Density" is about a generative structuring of the sonic realm through constraints derived from the visual domain. This reverses the visual music mapping from musical pitch to color hue, a tradition dating from 18th century color organs that continues today in the iTunes visualizer. The custom software behind Density enables exploration not possible with commercial software, and embraces glitch effects and the ‘happy accidents’ that occur by joining diverse fields through conceptual motivation and chance procedures.

Composition 2005 No. 1 (sound excerpt)

david — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:00:59 +0000

Composition 2005 No. 1 (excerpt, 1 min. 50 sec.)

Two Straight Lines For La Monte Young, 2003. Installation at Diapason, Sept. 2005. This work uses twenty pages of tabular random permutations of integer numbers overlaid with systematically placed small blue dots. These pages are pinned to the wall each skewed so the blue dots produce a pair of vertical straight lines each over six feet long. The work references American composer La Monte Young's Composition 1960 No. 10 which reads "draw a straight line and follow it." The work breaks from the singular act called for by Young’s score and instead creates through repetition and serial techniques two straight lines that emerge from an infinite numeric field.

Ryoanji 2 (sound excerpt)

david — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:00:04 +0000

Ryoanji 2 (excerpt 1 min. 53 sec.)

Rock's Role (After Ryoanji) installation view at Art in General (New York), 2004. A sound art exhibition conceived as a “garden,” where works overlap and interpenetrate. The exhibition title recalls a series of works by John Cage collectively entitled Ryoanji, in which a separation of continuous and discrete aspects of sound is enacted. These works are musical transliterations of the renowned Zen rock garden, of the same name, located in Kyoto, Japan. Rock’s Role is curated by Ron Kuivila and includes sound works by: DJ B, Gabriel Burian-Mohr, Damian Catera, Rilo Chmielorz, Bernhard Gal, David Galbraith, Mike Hallenbeck, Barbara Held, John Hudak, Brenda Hutchinson, David Matorin, Andrew Neuman, Maggi Payne, Michael Schumacher, Masahiko Sunami, Ed Tomney, Stephen Vitiello, and Lauren Weinger.