TON YAM I
spatial laptop music composition, performance & installation, 2008

For Max, laptop and stereo speakers, or fifteen hemispherical speakers. Stereo version premiered at Suits-Bueche Planeterium, Schenectedy, NY. 15-channel version premiered at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY. 36 minutes, 19 seconds.


Ton Yam I (For Brian Wilson), is a live improvisation deconstructing and reshaping fragments of the Beach Boy’s God Only Knows into a sea of floating harmonies, feedback, and glitch: destruction and reconstruction manifest.


PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

2018: “Sound Forms,” Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2011: “Open Ears Festival of Music & Sound,” Kitchener, ON, Canada 2010: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

2009: “Floating Points Festival,” ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY

2008: California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA

2008: Schenectady Museum and Suits-Bueche Planeterium, Schenectady, NY, USA