Ethan Greene

During my residency at ART342, I plan to write, record and edit the score to Alison O'Daniel's experimental narrative feature, Night Sky. In the words of Ms. O'Daniel, the film, currently in post-production, "follows a deaf girl and her hearing friend as they trade their perceptions of sound and silence during an otherworldly adventure in the desert."

For the score, I intend to sample dialogue and ambient sound from the film, as well as recordings from the Rocky Mountains, and use this as source material for an electro-acoustic composition. More specifically, I will combine manipulated dialogue from the film with field recordings from the Fort Collins area to create electronic soundscapes, and mimic the pitch, rhythm, contour and timbral characteristics of these recordings to compose acoustic music for a small ensemble. At the moment, this ensemble consists of double bass, voice and trumpet, but I anticipate some shuffling of instruments during the process. Once I have developed the electronic and acoustic components of the score, I hope to synthesize the two into a unified whole, suitable both to the project at hand, and to future incarnations incorporating live audio processing (using Max/MSP).

Ethan Greene:

• A Mouthful of Gravel
• Dancing as may be credible - II. At your side, at your stops
• The Mind is Like a Monkey