Fall

In Fall 1999, I was a graduate student and took a course in recorded sound techniques with Terry Pender at the Computer Music Center at Columbia University in Prentis Hall. Almost immediately I understood the digital audio workstation as a polyphonic compositional interface. I also saw it as a world in which the stiffness and sluggishness of musical notation, which I had encountered hearing my compositions performed by all the finest musicians, could be forever bypassed. Recorded sound was, to me, improvised compositional material, and the DAW a means by which to assemble it contrapuntally. In effect, it was a synthesis of my two strongest creative sensibilities: counterpoint and improvisation. If this wasn’t enough, in electroacoustic music, the composition and the rendition are one and the same: thus my mentalities as a composer and a performer also came together as one. Fall is one fruit of that formative time.
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