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燒紙 is a collaborative installation between myself and Kieun Song. It debuted on October 6th, 2024 in Mercer Studio at NYU for the Sounds of De/Composition conference. Its duration is roughly four hours and has a generative music score composed in episodes by myself. This was the product of a year-long partnership which began in the winter of 2023 as part of a greater Peabody Institute composition and computer music department collaboration concert.

Within an 8-channel sphere, harmonics sound in a dirge built from a Supercollider patch and frequency/ratio based data structure. The software itself is an ongoing project in additive synthesis with an emphasis on multichannel spaces. The first two chords of Chopin’s Funeral March were used as a subject due to their ideal structure for harmonic spectral manipulations.

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