1- Chuck Johnson – excerpt from performance at the Spare Room, Chicago - 2001 3:18
- Live laptop solo improvisation using granular synthesis and Max/MSP looper applet.
2 - Tripwire Trio – excerpt from “Censory Perception” – 2004 3:04
- Recorded live at Bickett Gallery in Raleigh, NC. With Chuck Johnson (electronics), Bob Pence (bass clarinet) and Chris Eubank (cello). On this improvisation I played a modular synthesizer, mixer feedback, and a homemade self-oscillating device.
3 - Chuck Johnson – excerpt from “Stalwart cercle, wavering canton” – 2006 7:37
- For sine waves tuned to intervals derived from the harmonic series. Pairings of closely tuned, hard-panned tones are modulated by very gradual glissandi that glide between the stable pitches. This creates the effect of tones circulating around the listening space at varying speeds against a slowly evolving backdrop of pure consonances and sonorous dissonances. This is from a series of pieces that can be presented either as long-form compositions or as environments and that are informed by my interest in the perceptual effects of just intonation and sustained sound.
4 - Idyll Swords – “Tantz” – 2000 4:41
- Idyll Swords are an acoustic trio who play original compositions inspired by traditional forms from around the world. I composed the piece, recorded and edited the field recordings, and played the guitar heard in the center channel. Dave Brylawski played right channel guitar and Grant Tennille played left channel guitar. The field recordings were made in Pushkar, India in November 1999. From the Idyll Swords II CD on The Communion Label.
5 – Shark Quest – “Scientific Illustrations” part 2 – 2006 1:30
- From the original score for Brett Ingram’s film Rocaterrania, currently in production. The film is a portrait of scientific illustrator and visionary artist Renaldo Kuhler. Shark Quest is an instrumental rock band based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I composed and played guitar on this piece and it features fellow Shark Quest member Chris Eubank (cello and bass) and guest musicians Carrie Shull (oboe and English horn) and Amy Wilkinson (clarinet.) This piece accompanies the second part of a sequence that appears early in the film and introduces Renaldo’s work as illustrator for the North Carolina Museum of Life Sciences. The first part of the sequence can be seen on my video portfolio.
6 – Chuck Johnson – music for the opening scene of The Guestworker - 2005 2:13
- Cynthia Hill’s documentary film The Guestworker tells the story of a 66 year-old Mexican farm worker who works in the US every year as part of the federal H2A Guest Worker program. I composed the score for the film, which aired nationally on PBS in November of 2006.
7 - Frederic Chopin – “Prelude in E minor, Opus 28 No. 4” – 2005 2:09
- Recorded under the name Pykrete (my solo electronics performance project) using hardware electronics and software synthesis. To create this piece I ran a midi file through a variety of software voices, which I then edited, processed and arranged in a way that I felt expressed my emotional relationship to Chopin’s piece. I added improvised accompaniment on hardware electronics (mixer feedback and self-oscillating devices) to augment the arrangement. From the Homemade Covers CD - a compilation of NC artists performing covers of other people’s work.
8 - Chuck Johnson – excerpt from Comprehensivism – 2000 4:58
- An excerpt from “Building Structures,” the third movement from Comprehensivism, commissioned by Duke University’s pulsoptional ensemble (then known as CSMG) for their “Synaesthesia: Echoes of Black Mountain College”Fall Concert in 2000. The third movement uses a graphic score and refers to materials and motifs presented in the previous two movements. The excerpt heard here begins at cell 20 from the score and continues through the end of the piece. Comprehensivism was inspired by the life and work of Buckminster Fuller.
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