Nick Hwang
I just got back from the Electroacoustic Barn Dance in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The festival was October 27-29 at the University of Mary Washington school of music. I had my piece Wait performed and delivered a paper on GUA with J. Corey Knoll and Jeff Albert. There was a bunch of good music and a growing [...]
"The essential difference between an electroacoustic composition that uses pre-recorded environmental sound as its source material, and a work that can be called a soundscape composition, is that in the former, the sound loses all or most of its environmental context. In fact, even its original identity is frequently lost through the extensive manipulation it [...]
Wait (2011) for 4-channel diffusion. Program Notes This work explores the confluence of two disparate sounds cast in a field of space and dynamics. The form of Wait is 4 repetitions of a single thought. Each repetition is a slight expansion and elaboration of the previous. Wait - Stereo Mix Wait [...]
I turned on the television as I was eating breakfast this morning and one of favorites, the Departed, was on. I had been listening to a Providence accent all week and I might thought, when I first arrived, that their accents (Providence and Boston) were pretty much identical. They're definitely not. I had been listening [...]
I've spent the week in Providence, Rhode Island for the Pixilerations Festival. The experience as a whole has been great, exciting, and as always, a huge learning experience. Social Structure [ Construction no. 1] had the huge privilege of getting the largest space in brand new Granoff Center at Brown University. It was up as [...]
With the rise of laptop orchestras, digital instruments, and human-interface-controlled music, the want for 1. obvious and demonstrative user-control devices and 2. an intuitive connection between performer and sound, 3. a visual stimulant for the audience's sake, has emerged. As digital instruments become more complex in their sonic capabilities and musical expression, the means to [...]
If you haven’t met my grandfather, then you might not understand my family or me. I’d like to think there’s a bit of my grandfather in me. His impression on my father is undeniable. If anything, I want to say my family is special. We’re exceptionally close; no doubt from my grandfather’s influence. [...]
I recently bought Bob Moggridge's book Designing Interactions. It's a really awesome book, full insight on design, the ideas behind the work, and is absolutely full of real-world examples. It's going to take me some time to get through it, and I've been trying to think of a good way to either annotate, highlight the [...]
Last night, I had a really nice hang and conversation with a fellow doctoral student, whom I don't get to see much anymore. Him, another doctoral student and I spent a couple of hours comparing dissertation work, musical advances, future plans, and general chit-chat. I got some great advice about the anxiety I've been feeling [...]
I recently got took part in the New Music Controllers workshop at CCRMA, Stanford. Overall it was a great experience. I took a similar class at LSU this previous semester but was interested to see how differently it was as CCRMA. In the end, it was not very different, but the personal connections and the [...]
