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electronic music

On this page, you'll find various forms of computer and electronacoustic music. This includes music involving live interaction between a performer and computer, music that is completely prefabricated, and music that generates itself as it goes. Click on the specified icon for mp3s of a piece, or, if available, click on the piece's name for more information.

live interaction
mp3 piece instrumentation comments premiere

Electroacoustic Landscape No. 2-
"Brushed blossoms"

Laptop (MaxMSP)

the performer is to paint with the MaxMSP tools provided a temporal sonic landscape of cherry blossoms… delicate yet vibrant, beautiful and impermanent.

February 2008
richard johnson, laptop

water meditation on Etenraku

Any treble melodic instrument and MaxMSP

a meditation on the traditional Gagaku piece, Etenraku, drawing only from prerecorded waterdrops and the sound of the performer

May 2006
Charles Huang, oboe

prefabricated and self generating
mp3 piece -- comments premiere

Sakura

composed for submission to Vox Novus's 60x60, a 56" contemplation of the impermenance of cherry blossoms

electronic landscape No. 1

an attempt to combine George Crumb's aesthetics with John Cage's sensibilities, the piece works from prerecorded cello gestures, which are then selected through chance procedures, a la Cage's gamut based style