2021

 Posted on January 12, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  149 words  |  Adam

becoming arctic partners: Boyana Maynalovska, Robert Platt, Christian Hierhold, Filippo Gaetani instruments: synthesizer, violin Becoming Arctic is the name of a short film by Robert Platt. It’s doing the rounds at some film festivals in north america this year. The soundtrack was composed using a formalized score pipeline written in python. The instrumentation is violin and synthesizers, Boyana Maynalovska on the violin and me trying to keep up on the keys. [Read More]
Generative Score  Synthesis  Film Soundtracks 

2020

 Posted on January 12, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  408 words  |  Adam

all of old. at Transparent Sound, Budapest with Longleash (a piano trio) All Of Old. Nothing else ever. Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try again. Fail Again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old Mccartney all of old [Read More]
Microtonality  Generative Music  Modular Synthesis 

2014

 Posted on March 12, 2014  |  2 minutes  |  387 words  |  Adam

hum’s almanac partners: [“Ensemble Zeitfluss”] instruments: [“Flute”, “Bass Clarinet in b”, “Saxophone”, “Bassoon”, “Percussion”, “Piano”, “Violin”, “Viola”, “Cello”, “Contrabass”] The rhythmical structure for this composition was created using weather data collected by the Met Éireann weather station that is positioned at Belmullet, County Mayo in Ireland. At the time, I was very interested in observing naturally occuring processes and letting them structure the composition. Similar to the types of aleatoric processes used by composers like John Cage in the 20th century. [Read More]
Weather Systems  yurt 

2012

 Posted on December 12, 2012  |  2 minutes  |  392 words  |  Adam

Blue pentagonal remnant of tile instruments: Organ, Kontrabass, Trombone partners: Aleksey Vylegzhanin, Matej Bunderla, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Sandor-Laszlo Krakoczk Composed for Stephanie Barry DaHe instruments: Harmonium, Electronics Piece for electronics, video by Trevor Furlong Fragments (glas) partners: Bronagh Linck-Ryan, Aleksey Vylegzhanin, Peter Venus instruments: Piano Kosmotopy partners: Klaus Lang, Anna Kropfelder, Yulan Yu, Hristina Takovska, Ja-Young Baek, Seongmin Ji This was a project that we started in 2012, one of the many projects that this group of people managed together during their time in Graz. [Read More]
Structuralism  Venice  Graz 

2017

 Posted on January 1, 0001  |  2 minutes  |  353 words  |  Adam

A way after remains or reflections In his poem Bogland, Seamus Heaney writes about the influence of the landscape on the pioneers. He compares the Prarie of the Western USA with the Moores in Ireland. A way after remains or reflections is certainly not a long walk into the sunset. The ground swallows an endless horizon. Every layer contains immaculate black. The horizon appears again nonchalant fleeting it cleaves the ground to the ground. [Read More]