Compositions -- Live Electronic, Mixed Media, and Digital Audio
Steve Everett
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
1) Ophelia’s Gaze (2008) chamber opera - soprano, string quartet, live audio-video / 65 mins.
text: Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia
Music, live audio-video, stage design: Steve Everett
Performers: Katherine Blumenthal, soprano; Vega Quartet
Live performance software:
Video - Eyecon Motion Capture and Isadora Graphical Programming Environments
Audio – MaxMSP and ProTools
Complete video of Ophelia’s Gaze (65 mins.)
(For Full Screen, click on arrows in bottom right of video)
Ophelia's Gaze - a chamber opera from Steve Everett on Vimeo.
MaxMSP_patch http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SE/Ophelia'sGaze_Max_Screen.pdf
Select Scenes:
a) March_1911 – speaker, quartet
Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/March1911_FINAL2.mov
b) Shiver - soprano, digital audio, video (video by Isabelle Dehay - Nantes, France)
Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/OG_SHIVER_MPEG4.mov
c) Vignette – soprano, cello, motion capture video
Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/Vignette_FINAL2web.mov
d) Letter_Home – soprano, quartet, and tape
Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/LetterHome_FINAL2.mov
e) CountessP’sAdvice – soprano, quartet
Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/CountessPsAdv_FINAL2.mov
Notes
This is a monodrama structured as a reverie on Ophelia, the young girl portrayed in Emory poet, Natasha Trethewey’s collection, Bellocq’s Ophelia. The set of poems was written as a narrative sequence and contains the imagined thoughts and perceptions of one of the young prostitutes photographed by E. J. Bellocq in 1912 who worked in a brothel in the Storyville section of New Orleans.
2) Triptych for V (2003) choreography: Anna Leo / 18 mins.
• Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/TriptychV_end.mov
Triptych for V from Steve Everett on Vimeo.
3) Vanitas (2005) organ and live electronics / 16 mins.
• Audio: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/Media/Vanitas_Harlow_organ.mp3
• Organ_registrations: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SE/VanitasLegend.pdf
• MaxMSP_patch: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SE/VanitasMaxMSP.pdf
Organist: Randall Harlow; Eastman School of Music, 2006
Notes
This work was written for organ with live electronic processing using the Kyma Sound Processing System and MaxMSP. Four to eight microphones are placed as close as possible to the organ case in a vertical array on both sides of the performer. Vanitas ahs been performed at Orgelpark in Amsterdam, Eastman School of Music, and Emory University.
4) Tembang Gede (2005) chant for soprano, doublebass, and interactive electronics / 7 mins.
• Audio: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/Media/TembangGede.excep.mp3
Performers: Katherine Blumenthal, soprano; Steve Everett, doublebass / IRCAM, Paris
Notes
This chant explores the real-time shaping of musical density and event scheduling. Both performers are able to control spectral transformations of each other’s instrument using Kyma. This extends the relationship of performer and instrument to include multiple physical devices. This work was performed and discussed at the Résonances Festival at IRCAM in Paris.
5) KAM: Ki Ageng Mangir (1999) an interactive Javanese shadow play / 120 mins.
KAM Ki Ageng Mangir from Steve Everett on Vimeo.
• Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/KAM_trailer.mov
• Score_excerpt1: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SE/KAM_Gendhing_sc.pdf
• Score_excerpt2: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SE/KAM_Gendhing_sc2.pdf
• Kyma_timeline: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SE/KAM_Kyma_screen.pdf
Performers: Midiyanto - Javanese shadow puppeteer; Sarah Weiss - Javanese gender and voice; Thamyris New Music Ensemble / SEM International Conference, Atlanta
Live Digital Media - Kyma computer music system; I-cube interactive sensor system; Max/MSP; Videodelic interactive video
Notes
KAM is a two-hour Javanese shadow play with video, musicians, and interactive sound, video and movement based on the play Ki Ageng Mangir by Indonesian author and political dissident, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Movement, shadow puppets, and music are able to interact with the use of several computer-based hardware-software programs. Selections from KAM have been performed in ten countries since 2000. KAM was most recently featured as concluding performance at the Society of Ethnomusicology 50th International Conference in Atlanta in 2005.
6) Ladrang Kampung (2000) for flute, Javanese drums, Javanese gamelan, live audio and video / 9 mins.
• Audio_excerpt: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/Media/Ldr.Kampung.mp3
Ladrang Kampung - flute, drums, gamelan on video, and interactive video and audio from Steve Everett on Vimeo.
• Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/LdrKampungSonGen.mov
• Score: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SCORES/KAM.LdrKampu.pdf
• Score-gamelan: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SCORES/LdrKampung.gamelannota.pdf
Performers: Jessica Sherwood, flute; Tom Sherwood, gender and kendhang; Gamelan ensemble on video, Sonic Generator (Atlanta)
Notes
Shadow puppets and music interact with the use of Kyma, Eyecon infrared motion capture system, and Isadora video processing program.
7) Opaque Silhouette (2000) music-video / 10 mins.
• Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/OpaqueSil_08.mov
Opaque Silhouette from Steve Everett on Vimeo.
Notes
This work is the opening section of a two-hour multimedia shadow play, KAM, for Javanese shadow puppeteer, gamelan and Western instruments, interactive computer electronics and video installation. It has been presented at ICMC2002 in Sweden, University of Glasgow, Scotland, University of Illinois, and at the 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Arts in Minneapolis.
8) Rendezvous IV violin and live electronics (2004) / 10 mins.
• Audio: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/Media/RendezvousIV-Kim06.mp3
• Kyma_timeline: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SE/RendezvousIV_Kyma_sc.pdf
Performer: Helen Kim, violin
Notes
The violin is being processed through over 20 different spectral, frequency and time domain algorithms created in Kyma. Multiple control variables in each are controlled by performance gesture of the violinist as well.
9) Blue Shadows (1995, rev. 2005) female narrator, vibraphone, steel drum, piano, and live electronics / 9 mins.
• Audio: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/Media/BlueShadows_BentFreq.mov
Performers: Bent Frequency Ensemble, Atlanta
Leslie Taylor, speaker; Stuart Gerber, vibes; Steve Everett, steel drum; Lisa Leong, piano
Notes
Live electronics are produced with the Kyma computer music system.
10) Sun Dial (2005) dancers and digital audio / 8 mins.
Sun Dial from Steve Everett on Vimeo.
• Quicktime Video: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/SunDial_Everett.mov
Anna Leo, choreographer/dancer
11) Aurora Consurgens (1988) MIDI grand piano and live electronics / 25 mins.
• Audio: http://music.emory.edu/COMPUTER/Media/AuroraConsurgens.exec.mov
Pianist, David Watkins
Notes
This is the final section of a 25-minute work for a Yamaha MIDI grand piano and interactive computer electronics. The interactive program was written in HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) software.
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