GALLERY CHESS PERFORMANCE : ≈10^90 (CIRCA TEN TO THE NINETY)

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Performative chess game and sound composition interpreted in real-time through the Max/MSP architecture. In collaboration with Saun Santipreecha and Foad Dizadji-Bahmani.

03/02/25 Performance of ≈10^90 at Leroy's through Gene's Dispensary Gallery, LA.

05/03/25 Performance with two iterations: S. Santipreecha (1) and L. Trahand (2). Hosted at Reisig & Taylor Contemporary Gallery.

KEY : Cage & Duchamp's Reunion Piece, Blake's Newton Monotype, Chess Narratives and Superpositions, Subject and System Dynamics, Automorphism of Voice and Artifice.

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APP AND ALBUM : GREETINGS FROM ATHAMBIA.

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04/25 An album in a state of superposition. Greetings from Athambia gets composed in real-time as it plays through the ATHAMBIA app. A titanomachy opposing the mythological medium of song with the traditionally un-traditional sign of experimental music. Spectral freezes and shuffling samples interrupt the tonal compositions.

KEY : Songwriting, Simulacra's Recursivities, Mythology of Songs, Isolation and Alienation, Beckett and Athambia, Automorphism of Voice and Artifice.

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SHORT READ : EMPIRE OF SIGNS

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12/24 Prose poetry dovetailing with a series of logico-scientific systems. Attacks the dynamics and movements within signification in relation to structures.

KEY : Knot Theory, Quantum Superposition, Barthes' Mythologies, Kristeva's Intertextuality, Polylogue, Logic, Semiotic Literacy, Oulipo.

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INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTALLATION : HUM•DRUM

(as part of exhibit spleen iiiii at Reisig & Taylor Contemporary Gallery).

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07/24 - 9/24 Sound, sculptures, pyrography, found wood glued and screwed booths housing handmade books. Attacks addition and subtraction as a foundation upon which realities are built, working through modular stochastic systems to evidence the factory of signifiers that produces understanding and narrative.

KEY : Deleuze's Différence et Répétition, Boal's Spect-actor, Stochastics, Echolalias, Confinement, Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Simulacra, Bodies and Systems, Max/MSP, Arduino.​

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9/24 hum•drum•hum•drum Performative reading of the stochastic books within the HUM•DRUM installation. Four voices, Three absent, One present.

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SHORT LISTEN AND LONG READ : DÉS.ILLUSIONS

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12/23 A series of six sound compositions and an essay. Attacks the internal and external illusions as frameworks of an axiality for life to orbit, in the necessity of beliefs within our epistemologies. 

KEY : Illusions, Epistemology, Adorno, Baudrillard, Beckett, Boulez, Langer, Schoenberg, 12-tone and Serialism, Avant-garde and Academia, Max/MSP, Acoustic Guitar, Voice.​​​

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SHORT VIEWING : FROM DATUM TO NARRATIVE

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09/23 Explorations through Max/MSP patches of the mythologizing of sound in music. Attacks discreet and continuous structures that illustrate categorical patterning, whilst parodying a perfect semblance of symmetry.

KEY : Symmetry, Max/MSP, Live Camera Analysis, Structural Patterning, Movement Tracking, Microtonality, Phasing, Polymeters, Poetry.

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FILM/DANCE/MUSIC : POLARITY

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05/23 A three-movement composition and short film with choreography, shot in the LA river. Attacks the struggle of the increasingly overt paradoxes borne from engaging with the cognitive dissonance of modernity.

KEY : Piano, Cinematic, Choreography, 4K Film, Hero's Journey, Duality, Cognitive Dissonance.

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EP : IN.CONCLUSION

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04/23 Weaving experimental structures into the banality of musical patterns, these compositions explore polymodality, atonality, and set theory in a contemporary context. Attacks the disjunct, the ensnared, the Absurd.

KEY : Camus' Absurde, Structural Asymmetry, Polymodality, Avant-garde Music, Unresolved.

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