House Taken Over takes up my solo flute piece from 2001, Evans House, and resituates it within an electroacoustic environment, using live computer processing and triggered soundfiles.
House Taken Over expands the solo piece within a symmetrical five-part form. Its rather surrealistic qualities betray its source as a refraction of the meditative Evans House through the lens of a Julio Cortazar short story. Cortazar’s House Taken Over tells, in stunningly economical and resonant fashion, the story of the eviction by memories or ghosts—experienced in the story only as sounds—of an aging brother-sister couple from their enormous ancestral home. The piece runs in Max/MSP. Thanks to Elizabeth McNutt for requesting the piece years ago; and for supplying much raw material used in its construction (in the form of FluteSource, her compilation of flute samples).
“It was pleasant to take lunch and commune with the great silent, hollow house, and it was enough for us just to keep it clean.”
House Taken Over expands the solo piece within a symmetrical five-part form. Its rather surrealistic qualities betray its source as a refraction of the meditative Evans House through the lens of a Julio Cortazar short story. Cortazar’s House Taken Over tells, in stunningly economical and resonant fashion, the story of the eviction by memories or ghosts—experienced in the story only as sounds—of an aging brother-sister couple from their enormous ancestral home. The piece runs in Max/MSP. Thanks to Elizabeth McNutt for requesting the piece years ago; and for supplying much raw material used in its construction (in the form of FluteSource, her compilation of flute samples).
“It was pleasant to take lunch and commune with the great silent, hollow house, and it was enough for us just to keep it clean.”