to swim in air
Singing Underwater
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singing underwater is a breath rising and falling beneath the surface, a high stakes game of keep up between toe-touches. virtuosic treading in soundwaves.
composed by: Louise Fristensky
Performed by Louise Fristensky & Megan Ihnen
a concertized premier at UNT's Voertman Concert Hall, an at-home performance prepared during the 2020 quarantine which also appeared as part of the nief-norf 10th Anniversary Virtual Marathon Concert, Sunday 12 JULY 2020, and Megan's fantastic interpretation for the New Music on the Bayou 2023 Festival
composed by: Louise Fristensky
Performed by Louise Fristensky & Megan Ihnen
a concertized premier at UNT's Voertman Concert Hall, an at-home performance prepared during the 2020 quarantine which also appeared as part of the nief-norf 10th Anniversary Virtual Marathon Concert, Sunday 12 JULY 2020, and Megan's fantastic interpretation for the New Music on the Bayou 2023 Festival
Side Quests
False Landscapes
False Landscapes, 44:25
an evening-length intermedial experimental audio video mythosystem
Episodes:
1. New Flung Earlets
2. Just Your Standard Pulsar
3. msgrcvd
4. Of Ephemerality
5. Like Grabbing Gossamer
6. New Thing (Again)
7. Eternally Nocturnally Suburban
8. Landscape with a blue flumingo
9. Butterfly Bee Water (brainquarium)
Attenborough to the places where the air tastes of electricity
Giddily traveling the beautiful unreality of internal spaces, their intricacies and world-growths, and the self-sustained logic which maintains their construction; an Attenborough to the places where the air tastes of electricity.
in development 2018 – present
album pre-release will be available on Bandcamp & experimental film premier forthcoming – date TBD
Landscape with a blue flamingo
included as an 8-channel stereo sound installation as part of Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland
22 November 2019
Eternally Nocturnally Suburban is a fixed media conceptual soundscape of an already semi- artificial environment, pushed into the uncanny valley. Derived from layered and cut iterations of Suburb Nighttime.mp3 from the Ben Burns Creative Commons Field Recordings collection.
broadcast Friday 12 November 2021 ~11:40pm on As if radio...
AIR is a collaborative radio space created in response to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from 31 October – 12 November 2021
an evening-length intermedial experimental audio video mythosystem
Episodes:
1. New Flung Earlets
2. Just Your Standard Pulsar
3. msgrcvd
4. Of Ephemerality
5. Like Grabbing Gossamer
6. New Thing (Again)
7. Eternally Nocturnally Suburban
8. Landscape with a blue flumingo
9. Butterfly Bee Water (brainquarium)
Attenborough to the places where the air tastes of electricity
Giddily traveling the beautiful unreality of internal spaces, their intricacies and world-growths, and the self-sustained logic which maintains their construction; an Attenborough to the places where the air tastes of electricity.
in development 2018 – present
album pre-release will be available on Bandcamp & experimental film premier forthcoming – date TBD
Landscape with a blue flamingo
included as an 8-channel stereo sound installation as part of Audio Art Festival in Krakow, Poland
22 November 2019
Eternally Nocturnally Suburban is a fixed media conceptual soundscape of an already semi- artificial environment, pushed into the uncanny valley. Derived from layered and cut iterations of Suburb Nighttime.mp3 from the Ben Burns Creative Commons Field Recordings collection.
broadcast Friday 12 November 2021 ~11:40pm on As if radio...
AIR is a collaborative radio space created in response to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from 31 October – 12 November 2021
mutterbug
mutterbug
mutterbug, an open instrumentation / open ensemble / open time; an exploration of submersed and glancing thoughts within the stream of consciousness of the performance space; a mythosystem of mumbling daydreams.
Premiered as part of the New Music on the Bayou Summer Festival, performance 1 June 2022, 7pm
Location: Arthur W. Stone Theatre
Louisiana Tech University
mutterbug, an open instrumentation / open ensemble / open time; an exploration of submersed and glancing thoughts within the stream of consciousness of the performance space; a mythosystem of mumbling daydreams.
Premiered as part of the New Music on the Bayou Summer Festival, performance 1 June 2022, 7pm
Location: Arthur W. Stone Theatre
Louisiana Tech University
old new blueps
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old new blueps
smatterings of a life lived celestial-bodily stretched across the multiverse a collection of genre-dipped electronic works reliving the ephemera of remembered space Tracks: 1. a sad sitcom from somewhere 2. i run on wizard time 3. where the air tastes of electricity 4. toes listening to mossy sand 5. cry with me, clumsy dancer 6. a flock of dust 7. next time on scoutro 8. roll credits sad sitcomber composition & performance – bluflumingo mixing & mastering – Louise Fristensky Album Art: Louise Fristensky released 4 March 2022 toes listening to mossy sand aired on 2 October 2022 and 8 October 2023 as part of "in formed radio" Ghost Stories on KUZU 92.9fm album regularly included as ambient music at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios |
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Cold Seeplógs: shit brigadoon
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shit brigadoon
harvesting quietly extrapolated gravity to swan about in happiness suspenders an experimental audiovisual work which sits within the in-development mythosystem cold seeplógs. premiered 20 February 2023 at the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater and the University of North Texas audio released February 7, 2021 synth, vocals, flute, bass & objects composition/performance – bluflumingo mixing & mastering – Louise Fristensky |
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the emergency alert system is on alert
and will be with you shortly
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the emergency alert system is on alert and will be with you shortly is a panicked meditation on the sonic geographies of continuous catastrophe. this piece specifically explores the timbral similarities between the mechanical air stream sirens iconically associated with many different systems of emergency alerts and the double bass' bow artifacts and ability to duplicate and fine-manipulate tones across its range.
to love a mountain made of walls
to love a mountain made of walls is a variable-rate generative audio/visual installation which adulates and ruminates on the intricacies and dialogues of boundaries, walls and layers.
!!FLASH WARNING!! *many elements of the visual component of this piece contain flash or flicker-type animation* NB: this piece might be best suited for the beginning or end of a concert as it will allow people a more relaxed exit/entry if they need to leave the theater or arrive late to avoid the flash elements.
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This iteration was first installed as a ~16 min fixed cut prepared for the CEMI Graduate Symposium 29 October 2021, audiated throughout the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater (MEIT) 36.2 ambisonic dome and projected on all 5 screens arranged at equal height. ideal for long-form corner projection or immersive projection installation sites, but available in a shortened 20 minute iteration for theater projection.
the visuals generate data which controls aspects of the sounds, which in turn generate or alter visual elements, while other audio/visual elements remain independent.
this work is a passive/duration installation piece (probably via large screen or surface projection w/ sound), in that it would run for x time ( my current top has been 3 hours) or in a loop wherein people could either stay with the piece and view a cycle (about ~45 or so minutes at the current change rate) or they could pass by the piece.
!!FLASH WARNING!! *many elements of the visual component of this piece contain flash or flicker-type animation* NB: this piece might be best suited for the beginning or end of a concert as it will allow people a more relaxed exit/entry if they need to leave the theater or arrive late to avoid the flash elements.
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This iteration was first installed as a ~16 min fixed cut prepared for the CEMI Graduate Symposium 29 October 2021, audiated throughout the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater (MEIT) 36.2 ambisonic dome and projected on all 5 screens arranged at equal height. ideal for long-form corner projection or immersive projection installation sites, but available in a shortened 20 minute iteration for theater projection.
the visuals generate data which controls aspects of the sounds, which in turn generate or alter visual elements, while other audio/visual elements remain independent.
this work is a passive/duration installation piece (probably via large screen or surface projection w/ sound), in that it would run for x time ( my current top has been 3 hours) or in a loop wherein people could either stay with the piece and view a cycle (about ~45 or so minutes at the current change rate) or they could pass by the piece.