After finishing my dissertation in 2008, I need to work on a track that was pure fun. No delusions of profundity, just a fast track exploring some of the techniques I had uncovered while working on the last few projects. It's almost like a study - when a painter paints a bunch of faces before painting the big scene using all of them.

Incidentally, it was programmed at a few festivals. Namely the Spark Festival in 2009. The track is free to anyone that wants to make a video for it - email sales@janthonyallen.com if your interested.

Here is an excerpt:

In the summer of 2009 I was in residence with the fantastic champions of new music Zeitgeist. As part of their “composer workshop” series, me and a few other composers (Abbie Betinis and Justin Merritt) had the opportunity to work with Zeitgeist and write a new piece for them. The catch was, we had to write it in 3 days.

I ended up with 2 short pieces. One entirely acoustic, and one entirely electronic.

I spent my first session with them just recording their studio (Studio Z). They had just moved in to this cool new space, and were in the process of remodeling it. Perfect for someone like me that likes to sample all kinds of banging on things. So I wrote this little piece using only sounds gathering from knocking on the walls, floors, coffee makers, trash cans, and whatever else I could find of their new studio.

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This piece was done as part of the "Art Inspired Music" Project at McNally Smith College of Music. Students were paired with a local visual artist, and tasked with "translating" a visual work of art to a musical medium. As a faculty member, I couldn't resist, so I joined in the fun.

From the gallery book:
"When I first met Alonso at his studio to talk about the work, my initial reaction was to make short audio samples of the piece and compose a musical work out of those sounds (how often do you get to bang on an actual piece of Art?) However, what came to me while I was working on the music was much more involved than just using samples of the work. Alonso talked about the piece symbolizing the voyage made by his family when entering the United States as immigrants. Having never experienced a cultural uprooting so sever, I tried to abstract the idea into musical analogies, and treat the piece as a musical voyage. It begins in a world filled with natural sound: wood (incidentally, all taken from the sculpture itself), with some harmonic string instruments familiar to everyone (cello and violin). As the piece progresses, the natural sounds leave their familiar ground, and gradually transform into electronic sounds. Thus, the voyage of acoustic (familiar/home) to electronic (unfamiliar/new) is the voyage taken in my audio rendering of Alonso's Voyage."

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Documentation of this project can be found on the McNally Smith website. An excerpt focusing specifically on the creation of "After Voyage" is below.

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If you would like a full quality version, please email sales@janthonyallen.com after purchasing.

Contains three electronic works:
1. Saturations III-A
2. Saturations III-B
3. Saturations III-C

The Saturations series of pieces all focus on a very narrow "subject" and, similar to photography, saturates it with as much of the subject as possible. In Saturations III-A for example, I took a very short sample of a choir (singing an earlier piece of mine). The original sample was only a few seconds long, but through a number of software processes this complete work was made entirely from that original sample.

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These pieces have been prorgrammed widely, including being featuring at the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music annual conference, International Computer Music Conferences, and at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts.

Please Note:
If you would like a full quality version, please email sales@janthonyallen.com after purchasing.

A link to download a zip file containing all three tracks will be given after purchase.

The Saturations series of pieces all focus on a very narrow "subject" and, similar to photography, saturates it with as much of the subject as is aesthetically desired. Saturations III-B uses a single white noise sample with various synthesis techniques and rhythmic effects.
duration: 6:34

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If you would like a full quality version, please email sales@janthonyallen.com after purchasing.

You can also get all three of the Saturations III pieces in one bundle and save $.50!

The Saturations series of pieces all focus on a very narrow "subject" and, similar to photography, saturates it with as much of the subject as is aesthetically desired. Saturations III-C uses samples made on the UPIC (Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu) system while studying at CCMIX (Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis) in Paris, France. Unlike any of my other Saturations pieces, this piece uses one additional sample - a single strum of an acoustic guitar.

In 2007 this work was choreographed by the Tulane Dance Department for ICMC 2007 in New Orleans.

Duration: 4:09

Listen to an excerpt:

Please Note:
If you would like a full quality version, please email sales@janthonyallen.com after purchasing.

You can also get all three of the Saturations III pieces in one bundle and save $.50!

The Saturations series of pieces all focus on a very narrow "subject" and, similar to photography, saturates it with as much of the subject as possible. In this piece, I took a very short sample of a choir (singing an earlier piece of mine). The original sample was only a few seconds long, but through a number of software processes this complete work was made entirely from that original sample.

Listen to an excerpt:

This piece has been prorgrammed widely, including being featuring at the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music annual conference, and at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts.

Note: This download is for a stereo (2-channel) version of the piece. For the 4 or 8 channel version, please contact sales@janthonyallen.com.

Please Note:
If you would like a full quality version, please email sales@janthonyallen.com after purchasing.

You can also get all three of the Saturations III pieces in one bundle and save $.50!