[-empyre-] microsound intro from Glenn Bach

[Glenn Bach <gbach@csulb.edu>]

Hello, empyre.  Thank you for including me in this month's discussion. 
I'll start with a brief rundown of where I am with my work.  While this 
month's topic is "microsound," I'm actually involved in an attempt to 
wed two seemingly disparate threads in my audio work: the digital 
signals of microsonic detritus, and the analog world of field 
recordings.  Inspired by Steve Roden, Josh Russell, and others, I see my 
work falling under the category of "quiet music," work that investigates 
slowly evolving/devolving patterns, open space, and quiet dynamics.  In 
fact, I run a house concert series called "Quiet," where I feature 
musicians and composers who either work with quiet music or wish to 
feature some of their quieter material.

After a recent string of concert appearances, I hope to spend the rest 
of the summer and early fall working on my sound drawings and 
sound-inspired abstractions.  I'll hopefully have some images scanned soon.

In short, my work encompasses sound, image, and text, and involves a 
quiet contemplation of the landscape, soundscape, and the poetic spaces 
in between.

Here are some relevant links:

http://www.microsound.org (microsound projects)

http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/soundwalk.html (a recent soundwalk, in the 
form of a found poem, in progress . . .)

http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/incidental.html (a full-length work from a 
year ago, composed from digital samples generated from text-to-speech 
and image-to-sound freeware--with a score in the form of a found poem)

http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/quiet.html (my house concert series)

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/24/01/sound-burk.php (an article in the L.A. 
Weekly about Los Angeles area experimental composers)

That's it for now.  I'm looking forward to the opening remarks from my 
co-guests, and to the discussions that will follow.

Thanks,

Glenn Bach