glitch lich
composer, electronic musician, pianist, improvisor, instrument-builder
Check it out on ArtifactRecordings ! As it has for so many other musicians, the pandemic provided me with the opportunity to listen back in time through my catalog of recorded performances to rediscover some music that never previously made it into circulation. I’m very happy to announce the release of In the Pocket, an album of interactive polyrhythmic music composed and performed between 1997 and 2010.
The phrase “in the pocket” describes the feeling of being in the right relationship to the beat in music that has a strong and lively pulse. The tracks on this CD are recordings of me and a few friends playing along with computer generated polyrhythms. The computer is nothing if not a hyper-precision clock, so generating complex beats is much easier for it than playing in unpredictable ways that also keep “good” time — to make that happen I programmed it to analyze what we play in relationship to its beats,
glitch lich