This piece was presented in a live performance at EMS 2011 in New York City. The audio is based on hydrophone recordings of waves washing on Duxbury Beach in Duxbury, MA, USA.
Music for Dance or Movement
Music For Dance or Movement (2011): for modular audio/video synthesizer.
First Disappearance (excerpt) from Mild Disappearances
Mild Disappearances (2011) is a suite of two pieces created using analog synthesizer, field recordings, contrabass, and digital post-production.
Score: “Intuition Triggers”
Intuition Triggers 1 for improvising solo contrabass – Performance Notes
by Mike Bullock
Each name on the score represents an artist whose solo instrumental work represents a significant influence on the composer’s own solo work. Other performers may substitute names of their own choosing prior to the performance. The names are abbreviated to keep their significance on an informal level.
Performance: instruments, engagement, practice
I perform music and visuals using a variety of analog, digital, and acoustic media. Since 1995, my performance practice has been centered around improvisation. In the sound realm, I play contrabass; modular synthesizer; software platforms including Max/MSP, Ableton Live, and SuperCollider; and variety of handmade sound objects and modified string instruments such as banjo. For live visuals, I use a hybrid video/audio modular synth and VDMX video performance software.
PhD dissertation: “The Kind of Music We Play”
My doctoral dissertation, “‘The Kind of Music We Play’: A Study of Self-Idiomatic Improvised Music and Musicians in Boston,” is available under Creative Commons on the website of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Folsom Library.
Users may download and share copies with attribution in accordance with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. This version is complete and includes audio and video samples as well as graphics and images.
