Binary Sunshowers

Binary Sunshowers is unlike anything else in this portfolio. It is an electro-acoustic work that aims to fully realize my experiments with MIDI and electroacoustic composition started by another project, Pixelated Wildflowers, which was performed for my senior recital project in high school. Binary Sunshowers by comparison takes a more minimalistic approach, waxing and waning via the addition of over fifty different sounds from various video games, synthesizer engines, and live sources.

Central to the thesis of both of these works was the marriage of 'fake' and 'real' soundbytes, expressed by a dense and constant hocket between my own saxophone playing and a saxophone sound synthesized by a computer (more specifically the sound font 'saxophone.sf2' from the Nintendo DS game Pokemon Platinum). The result is a new electronic sound governed primarily by timbres new and old, synthesized and real, high and low quality: I call it a 'bouquet of sound', which today is central to the way I approach electronic music sonically.