April 29th, 2011
RoundLight was composed for Rebecca Ford and the TaiHei ensemble.
The piece utilizes 3 components;
1) a fixed media track,
2) Live microphone feed from vocalist,
and 3) controlling 2 streams of the vocalists input through the use of a wiiMote, mapping X and Y to pitch, and acceleration to ‘grabbing’ a point in time.
Interactive installation piece with collaborator Kevin Heis.
Kevin Heis: physical user interfacing, interactive video, interactive music;
Jenifer Jaseau: constant video, button sound design;
both: physical space, conceptualization.
February 9-13, 2009.
July 18th, 2010
This is the culmination project video
from a summer workshop I like to call “sensor camp!”.
This workshop, New Music Controllers,
was sponsored by CCRMA at Stanford in the summer of 2010
March 15th, 2010
Future Music Oregon concert series
Winter 2009
This piece is performed using Symbolic Sound’s Kyma,
a real-time digital synthesis environment and the Wacom tablet as the control surface.
Ziller’s story utilizes text, as read by Alonzo Moore, from Tom Robbins’ book Another Roadside Attraction.
The text is a poem left by John Paul Ziller for his wife after she has experienced a devastating loss.
One cannot lose what was never found, just as even when something is lost, it is never gone.
This piece explores how text can be used as a background tapestry
to influence the unconscious awareness of time and space.
What we observe and accumulate through time always exists within us,
becoming part of our foundation and part of our experience.
One is meant to experience the full journey before the answer is revealed,
traveling from the tips of the mountains to arrive right in front of you.
February 27th, 2010
January 31st, 2010
For BlueAir infrared sensor and customized software.
January 16th, 2010
Sound-Bytes invites listeners to experience creative performances
from talented contemporary musicians
By Kalie Wooden | Scene reporter
Published: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Although many people think classical music is a dying art, the Sound-Bytes music series brings classical and modern sounds to campus with a twist. Whether it’s making new sounds on a traditional saxophone or a guitarist with electronic influence, the artists of the Sound-Bytes music series strive to change the way people think about new, creative and experimental music.
Originally founded in 2006 by Brian McWhorter, University assistant professor of trumpet, Sound-Bytes offers free creative and experimental music performances in the EMU Concourse Lobby every Monday this term from precisely 11:54 a.m. to 12:08 p.m. Sarah Viens, a third-year graduate student in trumpet performance and principal trumpet for the Eugene Symphony, fully took over the Sound-Bytes series this year as McWhorter’s graduate teaching fellow.
“He wanted to create a space for contemporary, weird, bizarre and experimental music to be presented in a way that’s not completely overwhelming and in a space where people who don’t normally go to see that kind of music can experience it,” Viens said.
Jenifer Jaseau, a master’s student in the University’s Intermedia Music Technology Program, played solo saxophone for Monday’s Sound-Bytes performance. “I hope people appreciate what kind of technology is available for use today and see how technology can affect music,” Jaseau said. “I also hope that someone will feel an intrinsic connection to the sounds I generate.”
After playing the saxophone for 20 years, Jaseau now incorporates pre-recorded sounds and other effects into her music to emphasize the instrument at-hand. The Sound-Bytes music series opens up experimental music to the public by showcasing artists who use modern technology to manipulate and enhance classical instruments. “The only way art can progress through time is if the lay person is exposed to what artists are doing in the current day,” Jaseau said. “We can only progress when we have an understanding of where we have come from. Then we can appreciate where we are going.”
The Sound-Bytes series gives students walking to and from class during the day a few minutes to listen to new music. The series features several types of experimental artists, as well as some mainstream style music. “It’s a great way for someone to just get a little taste of something new and exciting,” Viens said. “Hopefully it will just spark something in their mind and they’ll go check it out.”
Guitarist and singer Caleb Paul, the next Sound-Byte performer for Monday, Jan. 25, has been playing acoustic percussion for more than 10 years. “It’s a compilation of music you wouldn’t normally hear, so someone can just stop by and hear something fresh,” Paul said.
Paul’s music incorporates more than just strumming guitar sounds, he said. Many of his songs feature percussion and bass, as well as more of a melodic guitar sound. “I hope that people will be able to relate to my music,” Paul said. “My favorite thing about performing is connecting to people and individuals.”
The Sound-Bytes music series gives students a glimpse of modern and fresh music that has evolved from classical music.
“Part of finding your own individuality is finding a smaller niche of music that you can identify with, and you won’t find that unless you sample a lot of different flavors and personalities,” Paul said.
From the Daily Emerald:
http://www.dailyemerald.com/scene/series-showcases-new-unique-music-1.1011224