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A piece for string quartet and motion-controlled interactive sounds that are played from the mobile devices of the audience. All audience members are invited to participate.
You will be able to control certain aspects of the sound by tilting or
shaking your device; there is no interaction with the screen other than
tapping a “start” button and occasionally glancing to see whether to “tilt” or “shake” your device, though you could also just experiment to find out what moving your device will do. This work seeks to reposition the phone from a tool for remote interaction to a musical instrument that requires no experience to play and supports the communal experience of hearing music in concert.

Ryan Carter composes music for instruments, voices, and computers.
Ryan’s work often explores new musical possibilities presented by
emerging technologies, while remaining critical of the assumptions and unintended side effects embedded in them. Alternately playful, quirky, visceral, and intense, his music has been described by the New York Times as “imaginative ... like, say, a Martian dance party.” Ryan has been commissioned by Carnegie Hall, the MATA Festival, the National Flute Association, and many ensembles, with support from the the American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ryan has collaborated with the Berkeley Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Calder Quartet, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Hub New Music, the International Contemporary Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, NOW Ensemble, Present Music and the Milwaukee Children’s Choir, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Seth Parker Woods, Transient Canvas, and Yarn/Wire. In addition to composing acoustic music, Ryan is an avid computer musician and programmer. His iMonkeypants app (available on the App Store) is an album of algorithmically generated, listener-interactive electronica for iOS. Ryan holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (BMus), Stony Brook University (MA), and New York University (PhD). Ryan is Assistant Professor of Music at Hamilton College.

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from New Music Festival 02022 Documentation: Audience Participation, released January 8, 2023
Composed by Ryan Carter

ryancarter.org

Introduced by JP Lempke
Performed by
Lily Slaton-Barker, violin
Thomas Calletano Gonzalez, violin
Gabi Choma, viola
Pete Amawattana, cello
Cellephonic Accompaniment by audience members
Recorded by the administrative assistant on October 16 @ First Christian Church, at the second of three EDME New Music Festival shows in Eugene, Oregon, USA
Richard Fenton did a bit of mastering or something

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