Meditations pour les Femmes 2005 – 2006 La poésie est par Jean SIRIUS 1981. La traduction est d’Isabelle JULIENNE 2006. La voix est celle de Solène RIOT. The French version of Meditations for Women. Performed at la Barbare, 11 Mars 2006   AudioPlayer.embed(“pod_audio_1″, {soundFile: “http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkeleynoise.com%2Fcelesteh%2Fmp3s%2F2006%2Fmeditations-pour-les-femmes.mp3″});

Train Filter (2005) This piece uses GrainPIC to control filters over a sample of Broadway mid-morning traffic in NYC. Each filter is described by a cloud, which sets a resonant high pass filter and a resonant low pass filter, creating a resonant bandpass filter. The 1/q of each filter moves towards 1 as the cloud [...]

Scribble 2005 This piece is done with the first alpha of GrainPIC, which you can find out more about here.   AudioPlayer.embed(“pod_audio_3″, {soundFile: “http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkeleynoise.com%2Fcelesteh%2Fmp3s%2F2005%2Fscribble.mp3″});

Rain Clouds 2005 I’m writing a SuperCollider program based on Xenakis’ description of granular synthesis in Formalized Music. My program has a graphical interface very similar to UPIC. The working title for this program is GrainPIC. This piece is generated by a prototype of this program and is a proof-of-concept. Xenakis envisioned cloud synthesis with [...]

Organic Forms 2005 This piece was created on the UPIC system at CCMIX in Alfortville, France. When UPIC was invented, composers using the system would typically create a drawing and then listen to it, making changes as needed. Today, composers tend to listen as they go and the drawing aspect of the system is not [...]

Beep 2005 This piece moves through undertones of (2^x)/y. It starts with 32/21 and then adds in 32/19 and then 32/17 to create a triad. Then 32/21 drops out and 16/15 enters. As the farthest out note finishes, a closer one comes in so that the piece migrates from 32/21 to 2/2, always playing a [...]

UPIC Impressions of Paris 2005 This is my first UPIC piece at CCMIX. UPIC (plus bonne version française) is a graphical, glissando-oriented system designed by Xenakis. This piece uses all sine tones and all glissandos are straight lines (no vibrato) This piece contains extremely low frequencies that may be difficult to hear on some speakers. [...]

Savage Beasts 2005 To the right of Rush Limbaugh on the prison torture issue, there was Michael Savage, who advocated increasing prison torture and sticking lit dynamite in the anuses of Arab detainees. (Savage May 10-11, 2004) I found a similarly racist clip from a morning show on NBS called Imus in the Morning, which [...]

Morpehus’ Snare 2005 In this piece, I have detuned the left and the right channels. As the piece starts, the detuning falls randomly in between 2 Hz and 20Hz. As it progresses, the range narrows until the left and the right always differ by 10Hz. Alpha brain waves are generally around 10Hz. There are rumors [...]

Et sonnera le baffroy de la ville sans cesser durant l’assault 2004 – 2005 This recording is of a reading of this piece by the Wesleyan University Orchestra, conducted by Aaron Siegel during their annual Symphonic Workshop in 2005. This piece takes it’s title from a stage direction in a 15th century French mystery play [...]