Category: Liner Notes
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Sound Mining (generatively and intentionally)
Recently I started to deal with generative music, or rather to integrate a generative element into my music. Such elements have existed in many of my pieces before, but they have never been systematic. In contrast, such a generative element, specifically a patch on a small modular system, which generates sound events of different quality…
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Sarah and Marja in Conversation
On March 2 I attended a webinar of the American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter on Zoom: Sarah Hennies + Marja Ahti: Artist to Artist Talk. Originally I intended to write about this conversation between the two eminent composers, but then I got caught on two statements, one by Sarah Hennies and one by Marja Ahti…
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Music inspired by science
My new album Transition States is an album exploring several scientific principles and forces important in chemistry and biology by means of music. The core principles used as compositional tools are transition and equilibrium, i.e. dynamics and stasis. The music of the album is oscillating between these opposite principles until it gradually finds a rest…
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Wasted Sounds for Irmag
Liner notes for my sound art piece for the installation of Kinga Toth in Debrecen For her installation Irmag in Debrecen multi-disciplinary artist Kinga Toth built a work of art out of unnecessary things and waste materials she collected from the citizens of the town. These materials range from plastic bottles and other plastic waste…
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Liner notes for the radically minimalist piece Patterns
Patterns is a minimalist piece for one sample and electronics. The sole sound material is a sample of one bell, which I stroke twice. This pattern of two bell strikes and two silences of different length is looped throughout the 30 minute piece. The regular pattern is manipulated first with different delays and the three…
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Last Christmas
No, this is not about the song, you are thinking about. Last Christmas I presented myself with the GRM tool bundle named “Creative” and advertised on the INA GRM webpage as to be the thing “For musicians !”. I was curious about these tools mainly because of INA GRM’s close historical connection with musique concrète.…
