Obsession is an original electroacoustic composition for playback over loudspeakers. It includes recordings of myself playing the guitar, along with a substantial amount of sound samples that use different software techniques to model the sounds of the instrument. In addition to acting as a reflection on my own experiences with the instrument, this piece reflects on the guitar as a characteristically electroacoustic instrument -- one that moves naturally between technologically-mediated found sounds and virtuosic playing techniques that have shaped different genre trajectories.

Przypadek blends acousmatic and algrotihmic sound practices. The title comes from a film by Krzysztof Kieslowski that deals with the balance of choice and chance in our everyday lives. 

Mercury Rising uses various sounds associated with the US/USSR space race and presents them in a variety of listening contexts ranging where sources range from being fully abstracted, to being hinted at or hybridized.  The exploration of these sources using digital effects processing suggests a kind of sonic retro-futurism, which is also suggested by the use of synthesized sounds from primitive computer music procedures of the 1950's/60's that are placed alongside material generated with more algorithmic techniques.

CSP_2_Fernando  was written in 2019. It deals with ideas of virtuosity and samples a recording (of myself) working through an etude by the classical guitar composer Fernando Sor--from my own perspective playing his works as a young musician, and later interacting with them as a resource for computer music experiments.

Live coding performance with ChucK. Sonic Arts Studio concert series, Queen's University (May 12, 2022)