#bdecker

send me a team and I’ll give you my top 5 players and their #1 kinks

Brianna Decker: I have never overstated a single thing in the history of the planet!

Meghan Duggan: You have five seconds to make my skin stop crawling.

Duo Improvisation for Trombone and Computer. Performed by Jemmie Robertson and Brad Decker, on Friday January 24, 2014.

This is a raw recording of only the computer processing of my performance of "basso#" for double bass and computer at the Electronic Music Midwest festival, held at Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City KS, October 25, 2013. (I unfortunately had some technical issues - the input was overloading the reverb patch, so there's some crappy digital distortion at times. Yuck.)

This project continues to evolve. This version is now automated to frequency and amplitude of the double bass, and I now have the ability to control patch changes using a MIDI controller with my feet. I also incorporated scordatura in this version, with the D string lowered a semitone. Fun harmonics sonorities were a result, and became a motive for this performance.

This is the computer processing portion of my new work "Vault" for amplified trumpet ensemble. It is for 8 trumpets (Eb piccolo, 3 C trumpets, 3 Bb trumpets, and Flugelhorn). They are setup in an arc, and perform in front of a microphone. The microphone's output is sent to a laptop, which performs a variety of processing upon the sound input. This recording is the output from the computer, and is the last half of the piece. It was performed by the Ohio State University Trumpet Ensemble, led by Prof. Timothy Leasure.