tenor madness [2018-21], Variable duration.
Custom software environment for improvising tenor saxophonist.
Real-time concatenative synthesis/machine-listening engine mosaicking a 60 minute corpus of individual samples according to a closest-input sorting algorithm. The corpus is a collection of 1-10 second extracts from over 300+ albums, spanning the entire recorded history of the tenor saxophone from 1939 to the present. Additional Wekinator-driven Language-Music identification interpolates patch presets and adjusts larger-scale relationships between live input and resynthesized output.
The piece makes audible the often-heard (& likely paraphrased) maxim: ‘to freely improvise is to play (with) everything one has ever heard’.
Full recording published in 2022 as a part of “Old Time Music”. Released by Tripticks Tapes.
Anna Webber, saxophone