Cracking (Debut)
Cracking is inspired by Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. It features choreography by Dawn Kramer and lighting and video recording by Stephen Buck. Cracking takes us on a journey through classes of complexity in movement, body projection and sound. This is the first performance of the piece.
Crescent
Crescent experiments with the idea of mapping breathing. Breathing is our oscillation, rhythm and basic, repetitive movement that affects, and is affected by, every aspect of existence. The idea extends to our cycles through life, cycles in nature and the universe. The piece is based on a time measurement of a breathing of a performer. The ratio between inhaling and exhaling generates a metric module...
Cracking (Live)
Cracking is inspired by Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. It features choreography by Dawn Kramer and lighting and video recording by Stephen Buck. Cracking takes us on a journey through classes of complexity in movement, body projection and sound. This is a recording of a live performance of the piece.
White City
White City, written for the violinist Ana Milosavljevic, is dedicated to the city of Belgrade (Bel means white, grad means city). The backbone of the piece is an uninterrupted, 12 minute live documentary recording of Terazije, Belgrade downtown, taken from the balcony of my apartment one late night in the summer of 2007. The form of the piece follows a non-directional, random flow of street sounds including traffic, speech, clapping, bells. Noise from the street blends with Ana Milosavljevic’s pre-recorded violin sounds exploring extended technique.
Entanglement
This music is generated by a single cellular automaton: Rule 109 from A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram. It explores evolutions of the Rule under various initial conditions. Superimposition of the resulting sound structures vary from simple, static layers to repetitive modules and random distribution of sounds.
nkScape
The focus of the piece is a cross relation between highly complex, ordered computer processes and random events. The electronic layer of nkScape is generated in Mathematica using Steven Wolfram’s first class of complexity characterized by prolonged and repetitive sounds. By changing the initial conditions of CA, 10 chords are generated, each 1-minute long. The additional layer is a recording of traffic...