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SNAKECHARMER (1987) is a piece for an improvisor and a MIDI feedback network. A computer monitors the input from a microphone, transposing pitches and quantizing rhythms according to a program, then playing them back through an FM synthesizer and a harmonizer. Since the computer's pitch follower also hears the electronics, the system chases its own tail (c.f. Ouroboros, the Snake), feeding back in modes that can be influenced by an acoustic performer (the Charmer). In this performance, I am feeding the system by whistling and singing to it.

For Johanna Poethig
Recording Engineer: Andreas Mniestris

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from SNAKECHARMER (ART 1001, 1989), released July 1, 1989
Chris Brown, whistling, voice

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ARTIFACT RECORDINGS is a project of Ubu, Incorporated, an artist-run, non-profit organization supporting experimental and electronic music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our download and compact disk series is dedicated to representing a living experimental music tradition that continues to thrive in the cracks between the commercial, academic and classical music establishments. ... more

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