for Wacom Tablet and KYMA

Humans fill uncomfortable moments between thoughts, not with spaces of silence, but instead with principally three noticeable sounds: “and”, “uh”, and “um”. “AUU” explores the spaces between our thoughts, as well as the use of the three common words that mask these silences.

All sounds were designed using KYMA, and mapped to the Wacom Tablet for performance. Originally performed and recorded for 8 channels, this mix was balanced for stereo. Please wear headphones.

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Fixed media for 8-channels

The Sound Memorial for the Veterans of the Vietnam War is a six-hour long composition, a reading of the names of the service members who died during the Vietnam War. The Sound Memorial is a six-hour long work played in an eight-speaker installation and is composed from 210 voices and over 150 hours of recording. The work resurrects the service member’s names by propagating them within a defined space, allowing the name to reverberate within a room and take on a whole new life.

Listen to the entire work.