Salinity
A collaborative work between Alex Grimes [Cut Glove], A.J. McClenon [spoken word and electronics], and Eli Namay [piano] centered around social themes as framed in McClenon's personal narrative driven poetry.
Smile :)
Written in collaboration with Alex Grimes, Daniela Amortegui, and Ruby Pinto. Grimes made a video score for me to follow that indicates positioning with the instrument. It speeds up over time, becoming increasingly difficult to follow. At the end Pinto starts yelling at me. She approaches me from the audience, yelling "Hey" at me over and over again. She starts to yell more frequently, approaches me and yells at me, telling me to smile.
Beisel/Namay Composition 2
I collaborated with my good friend and clarinet player Emily Beisel on this piece. After about a year of playing together we became fascinated with the various compound sounds we could make between the double bass and bass clarinet. We wanted to write something that coupled this fascination with that of the pulse in popular music (death metal in particular). How far can you push a pulse until it is not a pulse? Recorded at the Experimental Sound Studio with Emily Beisel [bass clarinet], Eli Namay [double bass] & Tyler Berg [drum kit].