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Intermission

from Circumaural by Salman Bakht

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Intermission (2009) is a site-specific, event-specific sound installation created for exhibition during the intermission of a concert held in the UCSB Music Building. The installation was located outside the building, adjacent to the concert venue. Four CD boomboxes were distributed around this space. Each boombox played a different CD, which repeated for the duration of the installation. The audio for the CDs was derived from recordings of two of the building’s exhaust fans, a noisy outdoor light bulb, and a sample of a sustained chord from Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question, a piece performed earlier in the festival where the installation was exhibited. These four recordings were looped to create steady drone sounds. Each CD played one of the drones for several seconds before crossfading to another drone. Thus, at certain times the four boomboxes played the same drone, while at other times each boombox played a different drone. Additionally, the drones shifted slowly in pitch up to half a semitone so that the sound of the four boomboxes varied between moments of relative consonance and dissonance.

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from Circumaural, released March 23, 2013

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Salman Bakht Atlanta, Georgia

Improvisation, soundscape composition, experimental computer music. Cryptic and Machiavellian.

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