Bunker Hill Community College Application Portfolio

Engineering and Mixing

Mastering

Third Coast Percussion: Steve Reich, 2016
Grammy Winner: Best Chamber Music Performance, 2017
Roomful of Teeth: Render, 2015
Grammy Nominee: Best Chamber Music Performance, 2016

Electronic Composition

 

Interactive Media

Fisterra Player

Fisterra Player is a music player which offers a format for interactive listening. With Classical music in mind, it uses convolution to create an aural surround environment where the listener can hear the same program in several different halls. The impulse responses in this beta version were taken from several Spanish churches for The Strangers on the Earth project, and use the first Bach Cello Suite for convolution.

Download Fisterra Player (OS X 10.6+)

Download Fisterra Player Documentation (PDF)

 

The John Blackwell Jam Machine

The John Blackwell Jam Machine is a teaching tool created in Max MSP which allows the user to live mix and layer several instruments in sync with each other, essentially "jamming" with John Blackwell (Prince, Justin Timberlake) using a regular ASCII keyboard.

Download The John Blackwell Jam Machine (OS X 10.6+)

 
Conversations Overheard at a Restaurant in my Subconscious
Conversations Overheard at a Restaurant in my Subconscious is a multichannel audio installation based on the game Cards against Humanity. Approximately 300 of the subject cards were recorded and are played back randomly through eight speakers surrounding the listener, mimicking the undiscernable chatter of a busy restaurant. Only when the listener drags the center node into to one of the surrounding circles can he or she eavesdrop on the vulgar commentary.
Available for download on request
 

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The John Blackwell Jam Machine - Click to enlarge

 

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Teaching Materials and Performance Arrangements

Berklee College of Music: City Music Technology curriculum, 2015 (PDF)
Berklee College of Music: City Music Intro to Pop Writing and Musical Styles curriculum, 2012 (PDF)

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Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' – for high strings, keyboard percussion, steel pan, piano, two guitars, bass, and drums (PDF)

Get Lucky – for voice, vocoder, trumpet, clarinet, alto saxophone, piano, guitar, bass, and drums (PDF)
Thriller – for two clarinets, two pianos, guitar, bass, and drums (PDF)
7 – for two voices, harmonizer, flute, clarinet, two violins, cello, piano, guitar, bass, turntables, and drums (PDF)