Dust is about the exploration of noisy, grainy textures and about very slow movements of seemingly static sonic material, shredded into myriads of microscopic particles. The sources are leftovers of digital processes, noises that become even noisier, or field recordings; splashing waves captured in Australia on a beach with lots of pebbles, a massive storm, steam from a coffee machine, crackles of the lead out groove of an old record, hum and electrical discharges from a big transformer...
The sonic transformations create dense and layered streams of sound, remixed and distributed in space during the performance, slowly filling the room, sometimes barely audible, sometimes very loud, spanning the whole spectrum from the lowest possible rumble to ultrasound.
Dust is based on self written granular synthesis algorithms and can be presented live in many ways, including a variable number of audio channels. It has originally been composed for a performance in 2011 at the ZKM Media Theater in Karlsruhe, Germany, using a dome of 32 speakers around and above the audience. In 2012 it has been performed at Hebbel theater in Berlin, Germany with a 16 channel configuration.
Dust (2011)
duration: 60 minutes
sound: 8 - 32 channels
light: complete darkness or specific theatrical light depending on venue
Stanford Dust (2013)
Stanford Dust is a version of Dust entirely based on recordings taken during a residency at The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University in Spring 2013. Stanford Dust will be presented on May 23 and May 24 at Stanford's Bing Concert Hall Studio.