Debut: July 30, 2005 / 9-11PM
Projects in Transit (P.I.T.), Brooklyn, NY

• A swarm of insects follow and play a score
• Accompanied Spring Fever by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
• 2-hour performance / installation with 5 performers, 4 video monitors, 2-channel video component (live & pre-recorded), 800lbs of dirt
• Developed using the JMSL and Java

(s)warm is both an experiment in compositional form and in population theory.  I like the idea that a score exists, and the performers that are handed it at performance time try to play it as best they can.  The composition here isn't so much the actual notes being attempted, but that there are individual performers that, based on their own limitations, try.  Each individual object, or bug, in the swarm does what it can to play the notes handed to it from the score. Some move faster than others, and some are more exacting in their sense of pitch.  The result is something that, on average, approximates the actual written score itself.  But then again, isn't any performance based on a score?

Thanks to Holly Faurot, Sarah Paulson, Nick Didkovsky, and Dr. Asher Cutter

~ Available for museum installation/performance ~
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Note: Please turn off the music player on the above right if you are planning to watch the video.  It might be confusing otherwise.