This is the audio from the World Premiere of Quivering Filament of Incandescent Bulb at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn on May 10th, 2012. Quivering Filament of Incandescent Bulb began as a short melodic motive inspired by an image I witnessed while sitting at my piano: a filament in an old light bulb in my desk lamp seemingly feebly quivering. I built a brief piano sketch out of the motive and then decided, while thinking up ways to work with live sampled audio as material for performance, that I would add a new electronic layer to the work. I have always liked the idea of creating electronic music organically, as with musique concrete, as opposed to synthesizing sound via oscillators and computer software (which can still be fun). For this piece, I sampled the performance via a mic placed inside the piano and used looping software to divide it into snippets and process them in various ways to create a unique palette of sounds that I later performed in tandem with Tania through the use of a MIDI keyboard. Read here for a description of how I set everything up with Mobius and Mainstage.
