Photo by Hawkins, from Flickr, 2007.
Photo by Hawkins, from Flickr, 2007.
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Byron Westbrook, Corridors
Originally aired on Monday, June 27th, 2011

On December 10, 2010, experimental composer Byron Westbrook gave a performance to celebrate his first CD release of the Corridors project on Sedimental Records.

Westbrook is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound, images, and objects. His audio/video performances under the name Corridors involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment. His installation-based work explores unique and participatory listening formats utilizing common technology. Partially composed and partially improvised, Corridors takes pre-processed instrumental improvisations and re-distributes them through a customized multi-channel audio system, reacting to the response of a performance space; video elements are sources of light processed to reduce identification of form, object, and location.

Originally aired Monday, May 14th, 2012

The San Francisco-based composer is interested in the transformations and slippages that occur when a large number of similar sounds are presented together, in dense layers; 1,000 different 60Hz hums; 10,000 different distant airplanes droning, etc.


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Originally aired Monday, July 18th, 2011

An interstellar multi-character audio operetta involving a multitude of human, alien, and machine voices, in a mash-up of primal and classic sci-fi, electro-acoustics and lo-fi video communications created by Dafna Naphtali and Chuck Bettis.


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Originally aired Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Composer and sound artist John Hudak's collection of electroacoustic miniatures inspired by European folk melodies, Asian street songs, and the inflections inherent in the speaking voices of various peoples of the world, recorded at EIF in 2010.


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Originally aired Monday, May 2nd, 2011

The sound artist demonstrates his method for creating a tactile feedback signal using acoustic pressure waves: airborne ultrasound generates a force field that can be touched and manipulated. Recorded live at EIF in 2010. Headphones recommended.


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Originally aired Monday, April 11th, 2011

In a performance from December 5, 2010 tabletop guitarist Keith Rowe and video artist Kjell Bjorgeengen presented an interactive and interconnected video and sound piece.


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