So I’ve been making the electronic portions more and more dense and heterogenous over the past few months, mostly by adding variant after variant of the sounds I began the project with. I’ve mostly done this to paper over similarities between sounds, or to obscure the source material and/or methods behind them. (And not simplyContinue reading “wistful, harrowing optimism”
Category Archives: Current Projects
R2D2 or BB8?
I recently updated my New Music USA Project page with the latest on Neurosonics 2: You know that thing where people tell you what they really think of contemporary music? A few weeks ago, someone close to me asked if I was “going for R2D2 or BB8” in the excerpts I previously posted. Star Wars robots inContinue reading “R2D2 or BB8?”
neuron grains, spatial vibrations, inharmonic sine tones – and also a string quartet!
The following is a project update I published on my NewMusicUSA project page: There is so much wonderful instrument(s)+electronics repertoire in which acoustic and electronic sounds are continuously interwoven, each part of one set of musical ideas. I wanted to take a different approach in this piece, however, for the sake of representing both commentaryContinue reading “neuron grains, spatial vibrations, inharmonic sine tones – and also a string quartet!”
“Apocalypse done right”: thoughts on “Snowpiercer”
In the 2013 post-apocalyptic film Snowpiercer – based on Le Transperceneige, a French graphic novel from 1982 – a train barrels nonstop around the world, carrying the remnants of humanity through a world rendered uninhabitable by a human-caused ice age. These last people maintain order with a brutal totalitarian social structure, and both film andContinue reading ““Apocalypse done right”: thoughts on “Snowpiercer””
Andrew McManus: composer | educator 