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
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