Survival Kit

Eugene Markin

Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Survival Kit is a live electroacoustic piece that explores the connection between textual and musical meanings. It is a revised take on choral music in the digital era. The author experiments with ways to interpret natural language in computer music and suggests a novel approach to performing text/sound compositions. The foundation of the piece is a poetic text that lists all the things that may come to mind amidst a futile preparation for a global disaster. The piece is performed by a single performer in the live coding manner. The author enters the text in his original computer music software, which triggers sections of pre-recorded music and corresponding processing algorithms. All vocals were performed by a collaborator vocalist (tenor) using a recording score for individual lines, and then edited and programmed into the software by the author.

Citation

Eugene Markin. 2023. Survival Kit. Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11194728

BibTeX Entry

@article{nime23-music-1305,
 abstract = {Survival Kit is a live electroacoustic piece that explores the connection between textual and musical meanings. It is a revised take on choral music in the  digital era. The author experiments with ways to interpret natural language in computer music and suggests a novel approach to performing text/sound compositions. The foundation of the piece is a poetic text that lists all the things that may come to mind amidst a futile preparation for a global disaster.  The piece is performed by a single performer in the live coding manner. The author enters the text in his original computer music software, which triggers sections of pre-recorded music and corresponding processing algorithms. All vocals were performed by a collaborator vocalist (tenor) using a recording score for individual lines, and then edited and programmed into the software by the author.},
 address = {Mexico City, Mexico},
 articleno = {1305},
 author = {Eugene Markin},
 booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.11194728},
 editor = {Rob Hamilton},
 month = {May},
 note = {Live Concert 1, Wednesday May 31, Biblioteca Vasconcelos},
 title = {Survival Kit},
 url = {https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2023/nime2023_music_1305.pdf},
 urlsuppl1 = {https://www.nime.org/proceedings/2023/nime23_concert_1.pdf},
 year = {2023}
}