David J Kendall (cümbüş, electric guitar, computer) has worked in southern California’s sub-underground for several decades, as an improvisor, composer, designer and programmer. He combines an open, physical approach to playing that deconstructs atavistic musical gestures via performance and sampling. He has explored psychoacoustic phenomenon including difference tones, binaural beats and spatialized auditory illusions. David J Kendall has collaborated with and/or supported various noise artists and improvisers over decades, Andorkappen (Democrisy/Music Production Ensemble), Bob Bellerue (Improvisatyrs), Mitchell Brown (Baby Rambutan), John Krausbauer, Breana Gilcher and Mike Meanstreetz.
Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Memory Duo is an automatic electric guitar duo for one performer and one computer. The solo electric guitarist plays through modes and melodic fragments that connect to moments of change in the performer’s life. The phrases refer to lullabies, working melodies, old records, etc. that connect to the history of a family nearing its end. The computer, running a custom musical algorithm written in SuperCollider, analyzes the notes and phrases, and re-composes the fragments to challenge and reframe the memories, in order to create a new dynamic that matches the two voices with one another. One half searches for the other: past and present.
Head Scales, His new piece for Turkish cümbüş and computer focuses on the interaction between pure mathematical pitch intervals, electronic drones, sonic environments and the biology of hearing. The pure intervals of a just intonation are methodically examined. Harmonic partials are played against each other in order to find difference tones, to interact with the acoustic environment, and to explore the phenomenology of hearing. The piece will consist of an extended live performance lasting the duration of the event.
Every vowel, as synthesized in every localization offered by MacOS. Arranged as a trio, with U as the guiding voice.
