Broadcast waves are frequencies within the electro-magnetic spectrum. They are bands of light. Within this light, it has been known that spirits and disembodied beings can communicate. While the messages are faint and enigmatic, the search for them yields intriguing moments of artistically driven feeling and emotion.
The audio material is composed of various searches through the short wave bands of radio waves. These recordings were time and pitch altered using Csound. The resulting audio was further crafted using Spear. All of the orchestration of this material and its spatial panning were done in Sonar. The video was created using processing to generate semi-random distributions of patterns to resemble white noise. Processing was also used to distribute the spirit faces around within the white noise. The final production stage was filtering and video production work performed in Sony Vegas.
Fountain Talk
Fountain Talk
The fountain is a metaphor for the communication that comes through life itself. Spewing forth, in a relentless stream comes the mysterious and dark realities that we so desire not to face. The video was created using Ultra Fractal to generate the fractal imagery and Sony Vegas to filter and process the fractal videos. The audio was generated through granular synthesis utilizing Csound. The generated audio tracks were mixed and processed in Sonar.
Presented at Divergent Boundaries, Festival Miami, October 2011
Angel Wing
Angel Wing
The disembodied beings that surround us have strange and wonderful powers that baffle our imaginations. They can be playful and loving, or destructive and cruel. Either way, they live here among us.
I created the video in Processing, where I made a semi-fractal image from small graphic elements. This video was then taken into Vegas, where I applied effects and 3d motion. For the music, I recorded tapping and striking sounds on metal speaker stands and performed Fast Fourier Transfers effects ont hem in Spear. I then mixed and applied delay and equalization in Sonar.
The Making of Angel Wing - Paper to be presented at the Biennial Symposium of Arts and Technology, March, 2012
Accepted for performance at the 13th Biennial Symposium of Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, March, 2012
Presented at the 2011 Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance at the University of Mary Washington, October, 2011
Presented at the 2011 Studio 300 Festival at Transylvania University, September, 2011
Establishment
Establishment
This piece is based on the first 8 hexagrams of the I Ching.The meaning behind these hexagrams seems to outline a story of creation and ultimate establishment of this creation. They outline the birth, nurturing, struggles, conflict, and ultimate accomplishment of the creation.
I wrote this piece in Csound and sequenced the surround panning and EWI part in Sonar. I made the fractal that is the base for the video in Processing and then did the video production work and effects in Sony Vegas.
This piece is intended for live EWI performance and fixed audio/video playback. It is intended for surround, b ut can also be performed in stereo. Please Contact me if you would like information and materials for the performance of this work.
Beautiful Synchronicities
Beautiful Synchronicities
Beautiful Synchronicities explores consciousness at all levels. It is based ont he metaphysical principle that their is a conscious source to all thought. Our thoughts germination from a central source of experience and become more complex through our life experiences. The act of understanding our thoughts, where they come from, and how we can decipher their meaning is a crucial part of the life journey.
The fixed audio was developed in Csound and spread out through a surround field in Sonar. The base fractal video for each movement was developed in Processing.The final video production and effects were done in Sony Vegas.
The voice part is intended to be performed live with real time processing and fixed audio/video playback. There is a score and fixed media in stereo and 5.1 format for performance purposes.If you are interested in performing this piece, please Contact Me.
I
This movement outlines the metaphysical principles behind the concepts of archetypes eminating from the source of consciousness and out they are reiterated into nesting and overlapping layers to form complex thought patterns.
II
This movement explores the love behind thought and conscious life. In this movement, the vocalist expresses the nature of timeless beauty with text less vocalizations.
III
Coming soon.
Presented at 12 Nights of Electronic Art and Music, February, 2011
Presented at Forms and Fractures, Festival Miami, October2010
Sna;Drive
SnapDrive
The snap represents the properties of an instant. It is a fragment of time that is barely measurable. When set in a steady flow, snaps can form rhythmic patterns, and even solid forms that create gestures and blocks of their own moving energy. This piece is based on snaps and their kinetic need to drive.
I composed this piece using a Csound instrument that I developed and then sequenced in Sonar. The video was produced in Final Cut by Liza Seigido.
If you are interested in performing this piece from higher quality, non-compressed video and audio, please Contact Me with your request, so that I can provide you with the media.
Presented at the 2011 SEAMUS National Convergence, January 2011
These pieces are intended for fixed audio playback. All of these pieces have surround versions for live performance. If you are interested in performing one of these pieces and would like more information on how to do so and how to get the non-compressed media, please Contact Me.
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Spectral Voices in the Light
This piece is featured above under video works. The audio portion of the piece, however, stands well on its own. This piece explores EVPs, electronic voice phenomena. This piece is dedicated to all ghost enthusiasts.
Fountain Talk
This piece is featured above under video works. The audio portion of the piece, however, stands well on its own. The flow of melancholy can be persistent and unending. It tests one's abilities to resit falling within.
Angel Wing
This piece is featured above under video works. The audio portion of the piece, however, stands well on its own. There are beings behind the thin fiber of reality. They are inorganic, powerful, and quite moody.
When Swords Meet
The sound of metal on metal and the story of those who have fallen on the battlefields of old. The sword is a weapon of honor as well as a tool of betrayal. The ground is still walked by ghosts who fell to the blade and their voices can still be heard. ($0.89)
SnapDrive
A snap is but an instant of sound. When put together , they form rhythms, and eventually a solid flow of energy. This is when they start to drive. The video version of this piece is featured above in video works. ($0.89)
When Father Sky and Mother Earth Become One
This piece includes field recordings that I had done of various nature sounds. I used Csound to transform the sound sin pitch gradually so as the make the Earth and ocean sounds meld with those of the air and vice versa. this is a 20 minute long meditation on this allegory. ($0.89)
Hypnotic Perceptions
I first composed a meditation in Csound. I then asked members of the Frost Electronic Music Ensemble in the spring semester of 2010 to respond to questions asked to them during the meditation. I then mixed together the responses with the original meditation to create this piece. ($0.89)
Hawking Sonified I - IV
This piece was created using a Pure Data patch that I made that was a complete compositional environment for applying loop points, amplitude pulse envelopes, and spatial panning to recordings of Stephen Hawking lectures. The result is an aural enhancement of the meanings of the lectures.
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Insaxation I recorded about 7 seconds of tenor saxophone harmonics, which I then time and pitch stretched in various lengths and levels of transposition. The result is this piece, which explores the microcosmic levels of the saxophone's sound. ($0.89)
In the Belly of the Beast
This piece was written for a 12 Nights event that featured an homage to monster art.This piece is about the monster and all of its little symbiotic organisms that reside within it. ($0.89)
When the Shadows Came Upon Us All
These pieces are from the Wayfarer album, When the Shadows Came Upon Us All. They are composed for fixed playback in concert performance. For more information about obtaining surround versions of these works, please Contact Me. You can find out more about this album below, under Wayfarer Albums.
C Journey
These pieces are from the Wayfarer album, C Journey. They are composed for fixed playback in concert performance. For more information about obtaining surround versions of these works, please Contact Me. You can find out more about this album below, under Wayfarer Albums.
All of these pieces involve live instruments in some way. Some employ live or fixed electronics and some do not. For details on how to perform these pieces, scores, and any necessary media, please Contact Me.
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Establishment
This piece is listed above in Video Works. It is intended for live EWI with real time controls and fixed audio and video playback. This can be done through a DVD or media files. The real time controllers can be done through MIDI control signals from a sequencer to the VST plugin for the pan flute sound. I can provide all of these materials to the performer. ($0.89)
Beautiful Synchronicities I - I-III
This piece is listed above in Video Works, it includes fixed audio and video playback with live vocals and real time effects. There is a complete score for the piece as well as a DVD or media files for performance.
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Locking in to Your Signal
This piece is intended for live performance with a short wave radio and real time effects that can be triggered easily and manipulated. I use a KAOSS pad in live performance. ($0.89)
Air & Water This is a solo piano piece that is intended for performance on a grand piano in a concert hall. There are no alterations that are necessary to the piano, just practice on the part of the pianist. ($0.89)
Wayfarer incorporates the styles of new age, world, jazz, meditation, and electronic art music into an intriguing blend of music. The Wayfarer Project is the home page for Wayfarer music.
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About the Album
This meditation album features 20 minute meditations designed to stimulate chakra energy. The chakras are energy centers that emanate from the spinal region o the body. The 7 base chakras energize our consciousness and physical body alike. The meditations are designed to help a quiet mind to feed chakra opening. Just like exercising the body, stimulating chakras yields physical and mental results.
Techniques Used
Tones pitched at pitch frequencies for each chakra
Binaural beating at rates that stimulate a trance
Soundscapes to provide the listener with a sense of peace
This album is about the ancient Toltec belief in inorganic beings, called Flyers, that exist side by side humanity on this planet. Some inorganic beings are benevolent, but the Flyers are predators. They feed off of the luminous energy of our spiritual bodies. This renders human beings energetically deprived. Being food for other beings, we, as a result, do not live up to the true potential that we have. Through embarking on a journey toward spiritual freedom, we can make our energy stronger and less palatable to the Flyers.
This album was written using the Csound computer music programming language. Rendering coded script into digital audio is like creating aural magic purely from numbers. The music is meditative and explorative.
What is Csound?
Csound is a programming language in which audio and MIDI information can be created from scratch. The possibilities in synthesis and sampling are endless. The programming language is open source and free. To check it out, just stop by Csounds.com.
The sketched theme for Temporal Variations on a Sketched Theme.
What is the purpose behind our lives? Is there a script writer, or do we have absolute freedom? Is destiny exists, is there a purpose to it, or is it merely a "Tale Told by an Idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," as William Shakespeare suggests?
The song, "Jester in a Poppyfield" was inspired by this painting by Jeremy Hauser. Check the artwork page for more info.
Our Sanctuary is our inner world. It is the place where our hopes, dreams, and fears reside. Our Sanctuary is our own unique gift to the universe, full of what makes us individuals.
Guitar - Bradley Hinton
Electronic Music and Saxophone - Lawrence Moore
The shrewd image on the front cover of the Sanctuary album is a hanging piece of stitched cloth artwork by Claudia Garcia Calderon.
I am the Composer/Producer behind Wayfarer, a series of collaborations and solo work that I have composed in the realms of new age, world, meditation, jazz, and electronica. Some Wayfarer pieces are also intended for concert performances. More information about Wayfarer can be found at The Wayfarer Project.
This is a selection of all my compositions that are in the realm of art music. These pieces are intended for concert performance as well as individual listening. Some of my concert music includes works from Wayfarer albums, but only those intended for concert performance.
Many of these pieces are designed for multi channel performance and may involve live performers. If you are interested in more information about how to obtain scores or materials related to live performance of these works, please contact me at: me@lawrencewmoore.com.
This playlist includes both music from Wayfarer albums and my concert music. The player will automatically play in shuffle mode. Both Wayfarer music and my concert music are composed from the heart. I divide them up into separate categories for the sake of their respective purposes. Wayfarer music is housed at The Wayfarer Project, while my concert music is housed on this web site.
