Decibel New Music Ensemble developed and commercialized the Decibel ScorePlayer iPad app, a score reading device for networked performance environments.
Compositional Technique
The compositions in the fcremap series often transmit "Future Creatures" derived elements through tactile transducers embedded within instruments, moving them from 2D video to 3D resonating bodies.
Performer Biography
Decibel New Music Ensemble, featured on this album, is known for integrating acoustic instruments and electronics, interpreting graphic notations, and pioneering digital score formats.
Composition History
The album's compositions are part of the "fcremap" series, which adapts an animation piece called "Future Creatures" by Korean visual artist Eunjung Hwang into musical works.
Compositional Technique
The fcremap series involves "re-mapping" audio and video data from the original "Future Creatures" animation to solo instruments and live electronics.
Compositional Technique
In the fcremap series, still images from the "Future Creatures" animation are analyzed in an image-to-sound processing program to generate sound material.
Recording & Production
Due to the significant role of visual media in the fcremap series, this release includes a DVD of performance videos and video components in addition to the audio recordings.
