Machine learning (2018)

for amplified baritone saxophone and diffused electronics

à Fred Lerdahl

Premiere performance:

IRCAM
Concert Cursus 2018
Centquatre, Salle 400
June 16th, 2018
Premiere performance:
Interpreter, Elvis Sousa

Other performances:

Theophilos Sotiriadis
May 11th, 2019, #SKG BRIDGES FESTIVAL 2019
Museum of Byzantine Culture, Leof. Stratou 2, Thessaloniki 546 40, Αμφιθέατρο «Στέφανος Δραγούμης»

Filippetti Enzo
June 19th, 2019
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) & New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2019
Loreto Theater of NYU’s Sheen Center,18 Bleecker Street, New York City

In my piece Machine learning, I want to highlight the sound qualities of the key mechanism of the saxophone. It is amplified by several microphones on the outside, but also inside the main body of the instrument. This enabled me to access the hidden acoustic nuances of the instrument and investigate a new sonic territory, that of a sonic pallet full of various percussive sounds resonating in different ways. The goal of this project is to capture this hidden acoustic world of the instrument’s mechanism while understanding its potential for music making. Therefore, the performer is put in a place where he/she is reinvestigating the acoustic results of the traditional, common performance practices of the saxophone. The electronics are sonically intertwined with the acoustic properties of the resonant body of the instrument while expanding its acoustic and spatial possibilities. The final result is a projection of an augmented saxophone where acoustic and electronic sounds intermingle in a halo of mechanical sounds, metallic and versatile.

Other performances:

Martin Stier
September 28th, 2023
Gradients | Ensemble Quarks
MUSIK21 IM NDR
Der Kleine Sendesaal im NDR Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen