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Santa Barbara Soundscape

from Circumaural by Salman Bakht

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Santa Barbara Soundscape (2007, 2008) is a composition in two movements. The first movement, titled Santa Barbara Etude, is a soundscape composition based on recordings of a nature walk through Ellwood Mesa near Santa Barbara, California. This work presents the listener with a seemingly accurate representation of the sonic environment: the sound of waves mixes with the sound of cars driving by and planes flying overhead; the constant song of birds is paired with the fragments of conversation from those walking by. But upon closer listening, one may realize that many of the birdcalls heard are in fact transformed samples of human speech. Likewise, the realistic soundscape presentation is intertwined with musical constructions: birds repeat rhythmically while a clarinet duo plays nearly imperceptibly.

The second movement, rough4radio3, uses a set of radio noise samples as its primary sonic material. These noise samples are arranged automatically into continuous streams of sound that in some ways mimic the soundscape presented in the work’s first movement. These streams of noise play through an array of eight speakers for the duration of the work. An additional sound source containing some form of communicative sound signal (a recording of music, speech, instrumental performance, etc.) is projected within this fabricated sound environment.

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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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