Oxygen Debt

The anthology “No Labels No Music” is a project of Portuguese netlabel Editora Do Porto. The challenge is to create an original composition from an archive of field recordings. Participants are encouraged to chop, mix, and mutilate.

January 2013

The Drones

Six years in the making, this album explores the contemporary drone through many methods and in various forms. Tracks vary from field recordings (“Roadworks”) to compositions for viola and oscillator (“Transfixed In Her Stare”). Percussion, electric guitar, organ, and bullroarer all play their part.

January 2013

"The Garden of Adumbrations": Reimagining Environmental Composition

Paper published in the journal Organised Sound.

R. Murray Schafer’s soundscape, predicated on a schizophonic engagement with sound, and Pierre Schaeffer’s musique concrète, based on an acousmatic relationship, have been the dominant approaches for those composing with environmental sounds. This paper critiques the ideologies behind these systems, instead suggesting an approach that uses Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome as a generative metaphor.

December 2012

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