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WvS

About Me


WvS - a New York City based sound organizer and software engineer, studied computer music, classical composition and music theory in Europe and the US, wrote software for robotic systems & the Internet, composed orchestra, chamber ensemble & solo instrument music, conceptualized & realized computer controlled interactive performances, lectured at IDEA, attended the "Darmstadt Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik" as a sponsored fellow as well as many European Computer Music conferences, was Artist in Residence at Harvestworks/PASS (NYC), toured all over Europe & and performed in the US at Roulette (NYC), the Knitting Factory (NYC), {R}AKE + FLOW @ Monkey Town (NYC), Generator Sound Gallery (NYC) & other places, and managed Knitting Factory Records for many years.
He is currently trying to reveal musical truths via autonomic computer generated "onkyo" streams that are inspired by contemporary concepts of AI, cellular automata, chaos theory and analog systems modeling. Please visit http://iwvs.am for full versions of the above audio excerpts and additonal audio examples of other works, as well as the legacy music archive.
Track details:
    kokorogatsuyoi (2006)
    full title: kokorogatsuyoi
    Click for higher resolution (VBR) version MP3 of this piece.
    total duration: 7:04 min.
    outro variations (2006) (excerpt)
    full title: outro variations 03192006091515
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    total duration: 15 min.
    seichte wellen 5 (1994)
    full title: seichte wellenbewegungen, kreisende ruderschlaege - part 5/6
    Click for complete MP3s of the other parts of this piece.
    total duration: 5:36 min.
    seichte wellen 6 (1994)
    full title: seichte wellenbewegungen, kreisende ruderschlaege - part 6/6
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    total duration: 3:48 min.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/04/2006
Band Website: http://iwvs.am
Band Members: WvS
Influences: Too many to name, too few that matter.

Not sure if these were influences and how influential they were, but here are some teachers, mentors, and advisors I met and studied with:

Jolyon Brettingham-Smith, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Gyoergy Ligeti, Roland Pfrengle, Luigi Nono, Wolfgang Rihm, Mathias Spahlinger.
Sounds Like: Nothing else.
Record Label: currently not signed

My Blog

Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Spain features WvS sound: 06/17/08 - 10/05/08

Possibility of Action: the Life of the Score06/17/08 - 10/05/08Centre d'Estudis i Documentació, MACBA [Plaça dels Àngels, 1. Barcelona +34 93 481 33 66]featuring work by:Robert Ashley, Eugenia Balce...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:47:00 GMT