Lewis Krauthamer
I often write pieces for open instrumentation, and I have also begun working microtonally (primarily with the 36-note / sixth-tone scale). Traditional folk and popular music is of great inspiration for me, and I seek to incorporate it in different ways in my compositions.
KUKSU DANCE
I recorded and mixed this version of my piece Kuksu Dance in my home in Lyon France with a very old accordion. The piece is actually written for any instrument or group of instruments that is capable of realizing the score somehow. I wrote the piece as a kind of healing rite and so is meant especially for private performance or public distribution through recording; as opposed to a large concert setting. For more info, please visit my website: www.geocities.com/lewis.krauthamer/
[ tags: ] [ genres: experimental avant garde ] [ info: 7'28 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
"Hoist the Sail" (or pharmaceutical profit)
an excerpt from my 3-movement work called Kuksu Dance. revenue of 11 large pharmaceutical corporations over a ten year period (1996-2005) in 10 millions of dollars translated (in hz) to sine tones, with the Sandoz (a subsidiary of Novartis) company song “Hoist the Sail” modulating in pitch according to Novartis’ gross profits until 2005 (translated from dollars to musical cents).
[ tags: ] [ genres: experimental avant garde ] [ info: 3:01 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
d-22 for sine tones
difference tones creating new difference tones... it is recommended that this be listened to in open air (ie without headphones) and at a high enough volume level so that the difference tones can be felt ringing in the ear.
[ tags: experimental sine difference combination tones ] [ genres: avant garde experimental ] [ info: 2:56 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
I was born in New York in 1982, but grew up in Wheaton, Maryland. I began my undergraduate studies in composition at the New England Conservatory, then transferred to the Longy School of Music where I completed my degree. In 2005, I traveled to Lyon, France where I lived and worked as a private music instructor for almost six years. During my time in France I completed a postgraduate degree in musicology at the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, with a master?s thesis entitled ?Expression politique dans la musique de Christian Wolff? (written under the direction of Béatrice Ramaut-Chevassus). I have had many composition teachers throughout the years, including Steve Antosca, Malcolm Peyton, John Howell Morrison and Tom Johnson. My music has been performed by various ensembles and performers in America and Europe. I recently returned from France and am now based in the DC area.
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