The Laptop as Dwelling
Coil-mic sonification of a laptop's innards, treating the machine as inhabited space and tuning its noise toward melody.
Fixed-media / live electronics
In this piece I sonify the innards of the laptop with a coil microphone. I wanted to examine an idea, borrowed from G. Bach, that a laptop can be a space we inhabit. As he says: “For Musician and audience alike, the laptop is interior space because we believe it to be so.” A side interest in the piece was to travel on a spectrum from noise to melody, tuning the laptop noise to different notes as I go along.
Performances
- California Electronic Music Exchange Concert – UCSD, April 22, 2016
- California Electronic Music Exchange Concert – CalArts, April 5, 2016