The LAMOSO is a laser/photogate MIDI controller that Christi built for De/construction (2011), a collaboration by choreographer Danielle Ross and composer Christi Denton. The peice was first performed at an Electrogals fundraiser in May 2011, and was recreated for the 2011 Time Based Art festival as part of the 'best of' Ten Tiny Dances/25.
Press:
Willamette Week
Portland Monthly
(Photo by Kate Sanderson Holly. Courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
On February 16th and 17th, Christi, Danielle, and the LAMOSO will compete in the 2012 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in Atlanta, Georgia. The LAMOSO has several lasers that crisscross the stage. As the dancer breaks the lasers, she triggers different sound events. The instrument was created with a Teensy++ and Vernier photogates.
To Serve (2011)
To Serve is a film by Kavita Bali with a soundtrack by Christi Denton. It was first performed at the 2011 Electrogals Festival.
Meduse (2010)
Meduse is a film by Christi Denton with a soundtrack by Christ Denton and Heather Perkins.
Amaiti (2008)
Soup (2008)
Soup is a piece for wine glasses, cello, and electronics, and was performed at the 2008 Electrgals concert at Holocene. Program notes about the piece are here.
Press:
Asymmetry Music Magazine: Electrogals at Holocene
merge (2007)
merge is a film by Gene Kunze and Christi Denton with a soundtrack by Christ Denton. It's been featured on flasher.com, and was in the 2008 Spark Festival. The scenes are assembled from individual pictures that have been taken anywhere from 1 second (the protest) to 6 seconds (the avenue) apart. The film was shot in Paris, and includes a protest by teachers' unions, the Seine River as photographed from the roof of the L'Institut du Monde Arabe (the Arab World Institute), the busy avenue rue Monge over the course of a day, the popular wine bar Le Baron Rouge, and a Sunday morning at the Arenes de Lutece (Lutece Arena).
The sounds in this piece are the sounds of glasses (wine glasses and water glasses) and a satar (settar), a 1 stringed Iranian instrument with 12 drone strings.
Love Your Enemy (2004)
I started out by extracting the transients from the piece "Love Your Enemies" off the Dead City Radio album by William S. Burroughs (music on this piece by John Cale). The transients, in this case, are partials that have an average change of greater than 40 hertz per analysis frame, where an analysis frame is about .0174 seconds. From that point I pulled anything out that sounded interesting to work with and pulled out the bass frequencies a bit.
Progress (2003/2011)
IX Pieces for UPIC (2003)
These pieces were all created using a UPIC - (Unite Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu) A UPIC allows you to "draw" your music - the sound waves, the envelopes, the timbres, and how all those things fit together. The sound wave in this piece is from the sound of a breaking glass.
Working Girl (2003)
Working Girl was created in 2003 for the Chapel of the Chimes concert in Oakland CA. Working Girl is comprised of 60 recordings of women working on various tasks. The women recorded include firefighters, mothers, beauty pageant winners, zookeepers, welders, musicians, baristas, activists, train engineers and warehouse workers - women from all walks of life doing every kind of job.
55 of the 60 sound files used in Working Girl were recorded on a Sony Mini-Disc recorder and a set of binaural microphones. The remaining 5 were recorded onto DAT with two SM-57 microphones. The original version was 4 hours long."
Sheet Music (1994)
Sheet Music was written and performed in 1994. The piece is for cello, voice, percussionists and oboe.
