Shorts: #26 Ecstatic Rivulet (2007) Commissioned and titled by Clyde Niesen For this piece, I wanted to use a field recording that I made while camping over the summer. Visually, the campground looked like it would make a suitable set for a horror movie. The animals were correspondingly loud and screetchy at night and so [...]

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_2″, {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 [...]