collection of songs for mixed ensemble made using custom machine learning software
I am fascinated by the idea that machine listening technology is an opportunity to hear the world differently. For the past six years, I have explored this suspicion by translating machine listening analyses of pop songs into music notation and asking human musicians to re-perform the results. The transcriptions are impossibly over-specific, microtonal, and brimming with artifacts of the machine listening process. I formed a dedicated ensemble — the Happy Valley Band — to play the idiosyncratic machine-made music. Please see my blog post Making music through machine ears (the quick explanation) and liner notes Decomposing Music (the long explanation) for details.
Further Information
- Making music through machine ears (the quick explanation)
- liner notes Decomposing Music (the long explanation)
- Interview with The Wire
- artist statement Creative (Mis)Transcription in LMJ
- ORGANVM PERCEPTVS release page on Indexical
Songs
- Like a Prayer (2015)
- Ring of Fire (2013) [full score]
- Jungle Boogie, 2015
- (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (2015) [full score]
- Crazy (2011) [full score]
- Suspicious Minds (2012)
- It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World (2012)
- After the Gold Rush (2016)
- In the Air Tonight (2012)
- This Guy’s in Love with You (2012)
- Born to Run (2015)
- Darling Nikki (2015)
- Good Luck Charm (2011)
- Wooden Heart (2012)
- Katie Cruel (2017)
- War Pigs (2017)
Score Excerpts
ORGANVM PERCEPTVS
Studio recording of the debut album ORGANVM PERCEPTVS by Pauline Kim Harris (Violin), Conrad Harris (Violin), Joseph Kubera (Piano), Chris Nappi (Percussion), Daniel Costello (French Horn), Thomas Verchot (Trumpet and Flugelhorn), Joe Moffett (Trumpet), Christoper Scanlon (Trumpet), Nathaniel Morgan (Alto Saxophone), Sam Friedman (Harmonica), Charlotte Mundy (Voice), Jane Sheldo (Voice), Eve Gigliotti (Voice), John Welsh (Guitar), Larry Polansky (Guitar), Alexander Dupuis (Guitars), Mustafa Walker (Electric and Upright Bass), Beau Sievers (Drum Kit), Andrew Smith (Piano and Keyboards), David Kant (saxophones). album credits
Released 2017 by Indexical: 12″ vinyl LP + printed booklet + digital download
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Performance History
- 2017 Experimental Music Yearbook, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
- 2017 Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA
- 2016 CCRMA, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
- 2016 Don Quixote’s Musical Hall, Felton, CA
- 2015 Dog Star Orchestra 11, the wulf., Los Angeles, CA
- 2015 sfSound series, Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA
- 2013 Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY
- 2012 Electric Eclectics 7, Meaford, Ontario, Canada
- 2012 Miniature Minotaurs, WFMU Radio, Jersey City, NJ
- 2012 Transient Series I.2, Brooklyn, NY
- 2011 Ostrava Days Festival 2011, Ostrava, Czech Republic
