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For Rose (1 of 144 Variations after Fur Elise)

2013-06-30T13:20:43.810Z

1 piece selected from 6 sets of 24 Variation-compositions after Beethoven's Fur Elise. This work uses 6 differing Rhythm Modes along with 6 differing Tonal M...

How Long Blues after Jimmy Yancy

2010-08-25T19:14:26.000Z

This work composed in 1998 focuses on integrating Classical & Jazz traditions, in particular early Blues. Stylistically, it sounds very much like a Blues-Jazz, but is composed with a 12-tone methodology with its interval logic having been reconfigured holistically from the original intervals within the piece making it a part of my series of 3rd stream compositions. All of these Kaleidoscopic pieces can be thought of also as variations on the original composition.

PIANO PHASE (Steve Reich, 1967) - Photophonics remix - Royal Festival Hall, London.

2009-12-17T15:39:29.000Z

We were very pleased to take part to the TROUBLE TUNE event that happened at the Royal Festival Hall in London in november 2009.

TROUBLE TUNE is a groundbreaking music event putting on the same stage dubstep artists and jazz musicians.

We were pleased to be amongst the visual artists of the TILT COLLECTIVE which was handling the visual art side of the event.

We were very pleased to use the giant screen to show our PIANO PHASE remix, which is a cult music piece made by Steve Reich, the master of repetitive music, in 1967.

This is the first time we're using a projection screen with our Photophonics system, and there will be more to come!

Piano-Phase (Steve Reich, 1967) Visualization

2009-12-17T15:09:59.000Z

This is the visualization of the most known passage of "Piano Phase", iconic piece of repetitive music made by Steve reich in 1967.

Steve reich used loops of the same piano phrase played simultaneously by 2 tape players. After a short while, because the speed is not exactly the same on both players, they start to go out of synch, little by little. This phasing "accident" gave birth to amazing auditory illusions, as our brain keeps anticipating the next loops, but because they're not always the same as the 2 phrases go out of synch, an amazing phenomenon happens and unexpected sounds occur, some of them being a product of your brain!

Here, by visualizing each of the notes, we wanted to see how a "visual" phasing works, and are pretty keen of the result.