Sitka for piano and seasonal electronics (2015) - 12'

Sitka for piano and seasonal electronics (2015) - 12'PROGRAM NOTE: Sitka is a twelve minute work for piano and seasonally variable electronics that explores the relationship between music, technology, and nature. Since Steinway piano soundboards are made exclusively from Sitka spruce, the trees and the forests in which they grow served as the conceptual material for many of the pieces musical components. Environmental elements including forest density, weather, and the Sitka trees shape informed the

and sub-bass hummingbirds

Coniferous canopy wind in living forests of Douglas fir and Spruce

109 impacts

Red-throated Loon

Ruby-throated

sharp notes ring out and insanely loud frequencies sing into your ears

the software uses four sets of data (one data set for each season) that is then turned into 16-20 seconds of graphical notation that occur between the major sections of the piece

4 GB – 96 kHz / 24-bit – 22 stereo WAV files – Approx

with the lack of pebbles giving these falls a uniquely polished and frictionless character

If you need waterfalls distinct to the Appalachians

Lone moose tromping through a beaver pond

4 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit – 40 stereo WAVs – 40+ sounds – Approx