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Applied Music

by The Actual School
DIV010
Aug 10, 2016
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Applied Music is a study on conceptualizing and approximating performable music in the context of a digital workstation compositional environment. Using modular synthesis, digital synthesis, and sampled work from archival sources, the work applies various instruments to construct replica works considered as applied versions of a compositional agenda. Three pieces were written for voice and amplified strings, three tones, and drum and electronics, respectively. An overlapping 1-to-1 relationship between design and performance emphasizes an applied conservatory for the preparation and performance of music.

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Division

Division was a monthly radio show and year-long residency by Asystems on NTS, an online radio station based in London with studios in Los Angeles, Shanghai and Manchester. The residency presented self-contained, project-based works premiered along a timeline from January, 2016 to December, 2016. The radio residency focused on the various approaches of three composers (Xander Seren, Nick James Scavo, and Arx) working each month to produce new compositions, both collaborative and solo. The residency premiered twelve works total.