For electric guitar processed with the Kyma System. Recorded 2008.
"Threshold" creates its soundscape through a process called cross-filtering, which runs on the Kyma System. In cross-filtering, the tonal characteristics of one sound, called the impulse response, are imposed on another, called the source, so that the end result is a sound that contains only the characteristics common to both. In this case, ambiences recorded in and around New York City provide the source, and my guitar playing provides the impulse response. You hear neither directly, but only the result of the interaction between me and my environment.
Recording sources and locations in NYC: street traffic during a cab ride from 53rd Street to 89th Street; the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art, and a floor buffer in a side gallery; the lobby and galleries of the Guggenheim Museum; a trash compacter in the mid-50s; an air-conditioning compressor in the mid-50s; an industrial document shredder in the mid-80s; Olafur Elliason's New York Waterfall #4 at Pier 35; traffic on the FDR Drive at South Street. Recording sources in Rockland County, NY: nocturnal insects and thunderstorms.
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