Composer profile: Eric Whitacre

 January 20, 2012

Eric Whitacre

My first encounter with Eric Whitacre's music was in 2003, when he was the composer-in-residence for the NOW Music Festival. Since then I've recorded Chapel Choir performances of several Whitacre compositions including Animal Crackers Vols. 1 and 2, With a Lily in Your Hand, and Sleep.

In 2009, Whitacre created his first Virtual Choir video. To date, two virtual choir videos have been created for Lux Aurumque and Sleep.


Infinity Dots

 January 19, 2012


Infinity Dots Mirrored Room (1996) by Yayoi Kusama at the Mattress Factory Art Museum in Pittsburgh
http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm?event=ShowArtist&eid=45&id=221&c=permanent


Optical Scan Results on the Smithsonian Volta Laboratory Collection

 January 18, 2012

source: Volta.

http://bio16p.lbl.gov/Smithsonian/Audio/Release/Example2-PD1-p93-44100.mp3

0-5 seconds: inaudible

5-12.5 seconds: “and H.G. Rogers.  It’s the eleventh day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty five”

12.5-13.5 sec:  load burst of a tone (680 Hz, E5)

13.5 – 15.4 sec: sounds like (?) “who pushed in the pipe”

15.4 – 21.4: “Mary had a little lamb and its fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went”

21.4 – 23.6 sounds like “oh no!” or some sort of regret

24-25.4 sec: chirp tone, frequency modulated from high to low

25.4 – 33.8 “Mary had a little lamb and its fleece was white as snow.  Everywhere that Mary went, the little lamb was sure to go”

33.8-36 sec: some five words not identified

36 – 37.17 inaudible word followed by a chirp tone low to high

 

source: Volta.



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