The second video is the world premiere of NorCal Water Music. On November 10, 2019, Citywater gave the premiere of NorCal... at the Crocker Art Museum on the last day of the 42nd Annual Festival of New American Music.  NorCal dives into issues concerning one of California’s most important resources - water - and celebrates the beauty, complexity, and fragility of the Sacramento River Watershed. The ensemble realizes music derived from computer-animated maps of the watershed, overlaid by musical notation. The ensemble determines an order of the movements and their respective components. As video-jockey, I cue that order with the animations projected on a screen in the concert hall. Each video features a different geographical area of the watershed. (I also created all the visual aspects of the of the project). 

Between movements, there are short video interludes featuring the ecological sound found at a particular waterway. At these moments, the audience is invited to view on their mobile devices a short video with its own soundtrack accessible from my website, thus creating streams of motivic echoes across the hall. At this performance and future ones, Citywater, myself and the audience sustain a multidimensional, and sometimes fragile aqua-sonorous musical space.  (For a movement-by- movement set of time-points, please visit this video of the piece on my youtube page.)

Later in the playlist, Colin McAlllister and myself perform The End Times Are a'Changin': fantasia on a theme by Dylan (2018) for solo guitar and socio-multimedia at SoundOn 2019, in January of this year (program notes).  The End Times... offers the guitarist, the video-jockey, and the audience a unique opportunity to realize together an audio-visual work that can start and end in a myriad of ways. At a performance, the guitarist determines an order of the movements, to which the video-jockey is not privy. Upon hearing each movement, the video-jockey chooses videos from a library of media that I created for the piece to project and make available online for the audience to play back simultaneously on their mobile devices (with their volumes up!).  It is intended that the video jockey attenuate the volume of the projections to allow for a balance them the audience’s mobiles devices. If there is a large number of participants in the audience (they have the choice to not use their phones), the audio of the projections may be minimized significantly. While the formal arcs are similar, the pathways through the movements, the improvisation between them (please see the score for notes on this aspect of the work), and the degree to which the audience participates can make for very different realizations and conclusions of the experience. The remaining videos in the playlist are some of the media that I project and make make available on my website for the audience to play back on their mobile devices.