MOXsonic Nightlife 2 — Ryan Gaston & Sarah Belle Reid

Noise, phase cancellation, glitches, stutters, aliasing, and DSP failures—the sounds of errors and imperfections in the age of computer music are the primary material of this improvised duo performance. The sounds of tubes and trumpet extended techniques stammer into extended, unnatural, repetitive pulses; arbitrary transfer functions impose continuous transformations on sputtering electronic feedback; whistles, clicks, and crackles shift unexpectedly into explosive blasts, sonic caricatures, and frantic gestures before dissolving into a soft, intermittent digital fizz.

Sarah Belle Reid performs on trumpet and laptop; Ryan Gaston performs on map02/21, a chaotic hardware instrument of his own design. Both performers utilize unpredictable synthesis and processing structures whose behaviors are always responsive, yet difficult to predict. The performers must rely on careful listening and quick reflexes, constantly learning and re-learning their instruments’ shifting behaviors over the course of the performance.

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