Compositions
All this time I've pretended to be someone else now I finally become myself
The performance focuses on blending interdisciplinary, and new technological approaches, and questions the relationship between movement, sound, semantics, and narratives. It also exposes my relation to my instrument, the guitar, as an object which is conditioned through many different conventions, shapes, styles, and genres, and how musicians struggle to develop their identity through, and with the object.
Through exploration of machine learning, text to speech synthesis, and choreography the project blends elements of improvisation, composition, and performance, and explores the translation between these processes which are mediated by artificial intelligence. Last but not least, I have tried to establish a transition between experimental pedagogical approaches, and how they can further function, and be integrated in an artistic context.
This performance is created, and performed by students, faculty, and alumni from the School of Music, Theater, Dance, and Critical Studies at CalArts, and Mitja Cerkvenik aka Jesusonextasy.
Guitar
- Asymmetrical patterns 1 & 2, guided improvisations for guitar and electronics
- Infinite Possibilities of a String for solo electric guitar (12 min), 2023
- Two Sets for solo electric guitar and digital feedback, (7 min), 2024
- Field Oscillations, for guitar and sine tones, (15 min), 2025
- Kinematics for solo electric guitar (15 min), 2025
Group pieces
- Paul McCartney won’t take our money for at least three performers, (2020), cca. 10 min
- A necessity of choice for at least 3 performers (2023), 10 min
- Permutations for any number of recorded performers, and a DAW, (2023), any duration
- 1:1:1:1 for four electric guitars, (2024), 14 min
- Asymptotes for drum set, double bass, and guitar, (2025), 10 min
- Intersections for drum set, double bass, and guitar (2025), 10 min
Extended duration
- Mirrored Images for an ambisonic set-up, (2023), ongoing
- Roads for multichannel fixed media, (2025), ongoing
- Field Oscillations, extended duration performance version, for guitar and sine tones, (2025), ongoing
Co-creation
- Why is free improv boring, The Third Guy, feat. Matej Bonin, for guitar, percussion, piano, and electronics (2019), 18min
- Just the Three of Us, The Third Guy, feat. Quentin Meurisse, for guitar, drum set, piano, synths, and live manipulation (2023), 60min
- Everybody Lives here, The Third Guy, feat. Stijn Demeulenaere, for open set up, (2024), 50min
