| konrad kaczmarek // work - bio - contact | ||
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| Thing With No Name 2007 | I wrote the music for a feature-length documentary by Sarah Friedland called Thing With No Name. It's about antiretroviral drug therapy for HIV+ patients in rural South Africa and it's an amazing and beautiful movie. Click here for more infomation or click on the links to the right to watch a few excerpts. | opening (2'01) | ||
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fire scene (1'01) | |||
| walking scene(1'29) | ||||
| night scene(1'55) | ||||
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| Extensible Toy Piano Project | Here are a few excerpts I made by processing a Schoenhut toy 'grand' piano. I performed this live at the Extensible Toy Piano Project Concert at the University of Albany. | toypiano1(1'00) | ||
| 2007 | toypiano2(1'00) | |||
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toypiano3(1'00) | |||
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| Banff Concert 2006 | Here are a few selections from a concert I gave during a residency at the Banff Centre in November 2006. | 32_grains(1'00) | ||
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feeding_pitch (1'00) | |||
| freezing_pitch (1'00) | ||||
| combing_beats (4'10) | ||||
| 32_grains_alt (1'00) | ||||
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| Atlantic Recordings 2006 | Excerpts of recordings that I made during a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL. All processing was done in real time. | grains_pluck (1'00) | ||
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theater (1'00) | |||
| reverbing (1'00) | ||||
| grains_notes (1'00) | ||||
| loopingpianos (1'00) | ||||
| rhythm_play (1'00) | ||||
| piano_drone2 (1'00) | ||||
| amp_modulo (1'00) | ||||
| piano_drones1 (1'00) | ||||
| rhythm (1'00) | ||||
| Drone (1'00) | ||||
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| Interactive Piano 2003 | Here are several examples of the types of sounds and textures I have created using my piano and live processing performance environment. These are all improvisations created in real time. | fragmented_melody (2'25) | ||
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pulse (10'43) | |||
| snapsnap (1'19) | ||||
| fifths (7'02) | ||||
| pitch_follow (5'43) | ||||
| pitch_follow2 (1'41) | ||||
| pitch_envelope (3'25) | ||||
| tapbang (1'52) | ||||
| chords (1'47) | ||||
| melodies (6'08) | ||||
| moving_filters (1'49) | ||||
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| Ongoing Max 2001-2006 | Here are various bits and pieces that I created using Max/MSP. Some are short audio loops and others are more finished pieces. Click here for more information on the various patches that I used to create them. | what (2'22) | ||
| rhodesmix1 (1'08) | ||||
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rhodesmix2 (1'59) | |||
| slowgroove (10"46) | ||||
| high1 (1'14) | ||||
| maxbeat (2'34) | ||||
| 4_13 (5'21) | ||||
| ambience (2'58) | ||||
| beat1aiff (5'20) | ||||
| anotherguitar (2'24) | ||||
| guitar_filter (3'36) | ||||
| guitars ('36) | ||||
| snd (2'26) | ||||
| sync1 (5'17) | ||||
| shakers3 ('34) | ||||
| triads ('56) | ||||
| whatwhat? (3'15)) | ||||
| texture2 (2'19) | ||||
| texture (11'27) | ||||
| drums (5'44) | ||||
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| Piano_Pieces 2001-2003 | These are the first two in a series of electro-acoustic pieces I am working on based on manipulating samples from an acoustic piano. Sustain uses plucked string sounds, and taptaptap uses knocking on the soundboard. | sustain (7'27) | ||
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taptaptap (5'46) | |||
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| Goldsmiths Work 2002-2003 | Here are a few pieces that I made while studying in London. LostLake is actually an 8 channel piece, but you can listen to a stereo mix here. | lostlake (12'38) | ||
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into_sand (7'56) | |||
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| Gorilla Kingdom 2005 | Original music composition and sound design for these two commercials for the production company Gorilla Kingdom. | malin and goetz (1'30) | ||
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Archi-Tectonics (2'33) | |||
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| Early_Electro 2001-2002 | A few pieces that I wrote while I was studying as an undergraduate. Kettlemix uses samples I recorded of a kettle. Third try is, well... And Reason was made using the program reason. | kettlesong (1'58) | ||
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reason (1'27) | |||
| thirdtry (1'10) | ||||
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| Here are three sample audio loops created for an interactive installation with visual artist Ellen Fagan | ambient_pianodrumsguitar ('32) | |||
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birds? ('50) | |||
| marching_strings ('16) | ||||
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