Blakes 9 (2008-9) I’ve been working on this piece for over a year and it’s time to say it’s done. The inspiration to start this piece came from two sources. One was that I watched the TV show Blakes 7 and thought it had great incidental music. And the other was that I briefly dated [...]

Blake’s 9 (2008) This piece has changed significantly since I first posted it and a newer version has since been posted. I recently watched the entirety of the TV series Blake’s 7. Like all BBC science fiction productions of it’s era, the incidental music and sound effects are outstanding. The background hums, the computer whirrs [...]

Nice to See You by No More Twist (2008) No More Twist is a new duo of Polly Moller and I. We played this improvised set live on KFJC on 17 July 2008. She was on flute(s) and noisemakers and I played a live sampling application (written in SuperCollider). We were featured to promote the [...]

Every other week, I have to give myself an injection of testosterone. I find it really hard to actually pierce my flesh with a needle. It’s like stabbing myself. At the same time, having testosterone in my body is crucial to my identity. About a month ago, I used a small digital camera and apple’s [...]

Shorts: #15 Space Corridor (2007) Commissioned and titled by Graham Coleman. I made this pieace in the BEA 5 lab at Sonology at the Royal Conservaory in The Hague, Netherlands. This uses MIDI-controlled analog oscillators and the primary sound source. My friend Nick Fox-Gieg set up the MIDI control from his laptop and helped me [...]

Multis 1.0 (2006) Recorder / Flûte à bec Un tactus rythmique avec des multiphoniques. A rhythmic tactus with multiphonics. (First revision) Recorded at CCMIX on 12 juin 2006. Played by Solène RIOT. / Joué par Solène RIOT.   AudioPlayer.embed(“pod_audio_6″, {soundFile: “http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkeleynoise.com%2Fcelesteh%2Fmp3s%2F2006%2Fmultis1.0.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 [...]

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 [...]

Bell Tolls 2004 This piece plays triads with a sound that resembles wind chimes. It uses a spatialization algorithm so that each “chime” sounds like it is coming from a different location. The pitch of each new set of chimes is based on the pitch of the chimes that precede it. The pitches come from [...]

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. [...]