Modal Mixture
2024 — (ongoing)
composition, installation
An ongoing series of compositions generated from other people's choices, using a visual system for generative sequencing of modal 7th chords based on graphic connections drawn on a grid. Participants were invited to fill out their own grids as input data for future compositions that I will compose, notate, record, and send back to them. This work explores my relationship to names as future containers for the body, through analogy to the multiple possible formats of musical notation and recording.
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What is the future?
The future is ephemeral and hangs in the air.
The future is distance in time.
Distance in time is the same as distance in space.
A name is a container for the body, across space.
A name is a container for the body, across time.
When I think of the future, I think of names.
The story of my future is a story of names and promises and exchanges.
Like this body, music has many names, serving different points in time and space.
I invite you to give me a container, to choose a name, a body, a self.
In exchange, I promise to give it back to you across time and space.
I promise to compose this future from the present moment, your present moment.
