The interactive work for live audio and video processing is in three continuous sections following the form of the Charles Ives art song, "Maple Leaves." Harmonic content from the Ives song develops into clouds of sonic foliage, which compliment Joe's custom video processes.

I arranged the Ives song based on its original phrasings and orchestrated it for guitar. Each phrase is played live, sampled, and then sent through parameter controllable granular synthesis processing, creating new harmonic colors, phrases, and rhythms as the originals decompose. During this transformative process, the newly created layers of processed audio are scattered among six speakers in the performance space (which is very cool.) Decomposing tone leaves fall around the audience as the minute long composition expands to nearly twenty.

"I thought I said that already…" - an interactive piece for music and video.

This is kind of a continuation of our earlier collaboration which is documented below.

- SUNY Albany's press release