jake sokolov-gonzalez
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Whim (2016)

Whim
is about sitting at the piano. I think much of my work comes from sitting at the piano as a kid. Not playing the piano so much as sitting at it, with it. Waiting to see what it would give back. Sitting at the piano, I play a chord. With the strength in my back I strike mechanical energy dormant in its tension and release the weight into air. And then I wait, and I sit at the piano, and I listen for the tidal response of overtones to wash back to me, or fall like snow, or flakes of charred of paper, or run like a rogue grain trickling down the surface of a sandcastle. And me as a kid, I’d just sit and listen and widen out my ears until the last flicker flicked into silence. Whim is an ode to that cascade. To that reciprocation.

Whim was created using a live piano performance and granular processing. I tried to capture the overtones of a solo piano recording using convolution and granular processing to distill the extended envelopes of the instruments resonance from its fundamentals and transients.

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  • about
  • teaching
  • blog
  • work
    • Disintegration Aesthetics (2021/22)
    • Essential Tremors (2020)
    • Power Structures I (2020)
    • 11:11 (2020)
    • e-motion (2020)
    • Garden (2020)
    • Family Vacating (2020)
    • Piano Study (2015)
    • Whim (2016)
    • Woods (2017)
    • Jar (2018)
    • Makes the Heart Go Honda (2020)
    • Arch (2018)
    • Digital Paintings (ongoing)
    • Let it Push Down on You, Acceleration Physiology (2019)
    • Focus Pull (2020)
    • Christmas Show (2019)
    • Power Structures II (2021)