Awards

2014, Best Student Composition, College Music Society South Central Chapter

Program Note

Creatures from the Black Bassoon is an acousmatic work consisting entirely of processed and unprocessed bassoon sounds. The work explores the attributes of a variety of animal-like and environmentalish sounds, including key clicks, reed squeaks, multiphonics, and other traditional and extended techniques. These sounds were organized by similar properties into characters, which were placed in a number of tableaus of length based on the golden section. Certain tableaus in the work are designated as "windows", where developmental method is determined by significant contrast to the surrounding sections. Composed with Pro Tools 7, 8, and 10.

Performances

» February 4, 2012 - 8:00 pm - OCA Composer's Salon - Sonder Music Dance and Art, 225 E Gray St., Norman, OK 73069
» April 16, 2012 - 8:00 pm - Inner sOUndscapes Fall 2012 - Morris R. Pitman Recital Hall, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
» September 12, 2012 - 10:00 am - International Computer Music Conference - Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia
» October 12, 2012 - 8:00 pm - SCI Student National Conference 2012 - Huntington Recital Hall, Capital University, Columbus, OH
» October 17, 2012 - 5:30 pm - EMUFest 2012 - Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
» April 7, 2013 - 8:00 pm - Kyle Vanderburg DMA Recital - Morris R. Pitman Recital Hall, University of Oklahoma
» April 12, 2013 - 2:00 pm - SCI Regional Conference 2013 - Clarke University, Dubuque, IA
» September 28, 2013 - 4:00 pm - Congreso Internacional de Ciencia y Tecnología Musical (CICTeM) 2013 - Creatures from the Black Bassoon - Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
» November 8, 2013 - 4:00 am - Symposium on Acoustic Ecology 2013 - Creatures from the Black Bassoon - Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, University of Kent, Kent, UK
» February 20, 2014 - 1:00 pm - National Student Electronic Music Event 2014 - Creatures from the Black Bassoon - N_SEME (National Student Electronic Music Event), Statesboro, GA
» March 7, 2014 - 1:30 pm - College Music Society South Central 2014 - Creatures from the Black Bassoon - University of Arkansas-Fort Smith
» October 24, 2014 - 8:00 pm - OU Student Composers Recital - Guest Composer - Morris R. Pitman Recital Hall, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
» October 30, 2014 - 10:00 am - 2014 College Music Society National Conference - Ritz-Carlton Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri
» March 21, 2015 - 3:00 pm - College Music Society Rocky Mountain Conference 2015 - CMS Rocky Mountain Regional Conference
» September 9, 2015 - 11:00 am - Sonic Arts Forum - Creatures from the Black Bassoon - Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, Wales, UK.