medi[t]ations series

the medi[t]ations series was an exploration of the "invisible performance" of the performer's body and mind. blown away by the cacophony of my head during my first experiments with sitting meditation, i began to develop software and electronics geared toward exploding the subtle activity of a motionless performer with the hope of exposing a hidden "dance". i began to understand meditation from a technological, mediative framework, consisting of a limited mind trying futilely to process an infinite input. the laptop computer seemed like a perfect companion for such a piece - my computer and i paralleled one another, both sitting motionless on stage, our internal performances subtly cycling away, invisible to any spectators eyes, each of us making sense of our inputs. the computer sounds produced in these works are not the "body sounds" themselves - in fact there were no microphones involved. rather, each piece attempted to let the computer speak for itself instead of believing in it as an amplifier or clear channel for the inner life of the body. what one hears then is simply a representation of the body - not the body itself - an orchestration of inputs, melded into something that seemed to make sonic sense to musician/programmer.

The finger that points to the moon is not the moon itself.

Further Reading:

Invisible Performance of the Virtuosic Body | pdf
Contemporary Music Review - Vol. 25, No. 1/2, February/April 2006, pp. 173 – 182
An article I wrote describing the concerns of this work and of some subsequent, related acoustic music.

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Works

• Sitting.Breathing.Beating.[Not]Thinking (2004)
• body.to.binary (2004)
• this.is[not].my.heart (2005)
• Sitting.Breathing.No.1 (2003)
• Sitting.Sangha (2003)
• Farewell Rituals (2003)

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