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Ellipsis, Tristan Julle Geary
Ellipsis, Tristan Julle Geary
Senior Projects Spring 2020
Ellipsis. An orchestral composition written for The Orchestra Now at Bard College.
“Saitama” & “Conversations With Cage & Frisell”, Jacob Mcconnaughy
“Saitama” & “Conversations With Cage & Frisell”, Jacob Mcconnaughy
Senior Projects Spring 2020
“Saitama”
For the first part of Senior Project, I embarked on a goal to gather as much material as I could to form a coherent album that could be released to the public on streaming platforms that focused on electronic music. With a Roland Juno-60, a vintage analog synthesizer from the early eighties, I sat down everyday and hit record and let myself be taken away by the sounds and textures that I was able to conjure. The finished project combines previous ideas and culminated in the release of a full length album entitled Saitama.
“Conversations with Cage & Frisell” …
Pull2 And Wish2, Nicolas Roman Fopeano
Pull2 And Wish2, Nicolas Roman Fopeano
Senior Projects Spring 2020
My senior project consists of two individual parts, completed at the ends of both semesters.
The first project, titled “Pull2”, is a fully composed piece written for piano, violin, cello, and live processed 4 channel electronics. It was performed on December 13, 2019 in Bard Hall. The players were Maeve Schallert on violin, Kate Gonzales on cello, Clay Hillenburg controlling the electronics, and I played piano. The playing was sparse and spacious, and the electronics held certain tones for long periods of time. This was achieved with a MAX patch which loops short moments of the audio from the instruments …
The Feminine Voice / Self Titled, Teddy Mckrell
The Feminine Voice / Self Titled, Teddy Mckrell
Senior Projects Spring 2020
My senior project consisted of two concerts, one in classical voice and one in electronic composition.
Let It Fall // The Bath, Emma Nicole Houton
Let It Fall // The Bath, Emma Nicole Houton
Senior Projects Spring 2020
Let it Fall
“Let it Fall” was a senior concert in jazz voice and electronics comprised of original work and arrangements of jazz standards and pop songs. Inspired by the films of David Lynch, it was a work embracing disintegration and the unsettling. This concert was intended to combine my two academic focuses, jazz voice and electronic music, and evolved from a project in which I attempted to produce dream-pop covers of jazz standards.
The concert took place in the Old Gym, which I designed to look like an amalgamation of venues featured in Lynch’s films, with eerie red and …