Originally released in 2014 on John Kannenberg's Statisfield netlabel. Full downloads will include a copy of the PDF from the original release.

These pieces are based on the incidental music/sound design I created for Gregory Kowalski's production of "Crave" by Sarah Kane. Crave is an intense play for four characters, identified only as "C", "M", "B" and "A", usually assigned to two male and two female actors. Kane offers no staging instructions.

Greg works in the medium of live, projected video processed in real time with software developed using Max/MSP/Jitter. For Crave, he added a camera that feeds into a system using a tweaked motion-detection algorithm to trigger events based on visual stimuli. Dialog was pre-recorded. The performance consisted of Greg and Dei Xhrist creating images that triggered sequential playback of the lines of dialog.

For my part, I devised a series of aural scenarios combining live electronics with loops derived from field recordings I found on freesound.org. Each sound segment was associated with a specific passage of dialog, alternating with sections in which only dialog was heard.

The tracks in this release are versions of the first seven segments, re-created in my home studio. The name of each track is a line from the corresponding part of the play.

My setup consisted of a 4MS/Repeater Noise Swash, a Repeater 3x3 Matrix Mixer, a Moogerfooger Ring Modulator, a Moogerfooger FreqBox, and an Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man with Hazarai. Live, the field-recording loops were played on a Google Nexus 7 tablet, using the LAS-9 app; here, I rendered the loops in advance on my laptop, then added electronics. Each track was recorded as a single live take. I used Audacity to combine the loops with the electronics.

Many thanks to the people who recorded these sounds and made them available for others to use (see credits below), and to the Freesound project (freesound.org) for making this sharing possible.

Special thanks to Greg Kowalski for inviting me to participate in Crave; the production premiered November 30, 2013 at Kimball Street Studio, Lewiston, Maine.