"I Dreamt of David: An Electronic Music Composition" by Jeremy Bowen and Dr. Steven Ricks
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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

electronic music composition, poem, magnetic sensor

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Music

Abstract

On November 28, 2006, I was standing backstage in the Dumke Recital Hall at the University of Utah, frazzled and slightly nervous, with a magnetic sensor strapped around my chest, and its output cable dagling out of my shirt. When I received the signal, I walked out to the stage, took a little bow as the audience applauded, and plugged myself into my computer, which was connected to the sound system. I sat down on a chair, centered on the stage, and took a slow breath. The audience sat riveted, as I breathed in and out, slowly and calmly, but I was more tense than they were as I waited for the anticipated chord to be triggered by the sensor. With closed eyes, but nervous mind, I finally heard the first notes quietly trickle out of the speakers as I inhaled. With a masked intensity, I slowly inhaled and exhaled, controlling various parameters of the audio with the expansion and contraction of my chest. For five minutes, quiet and slowly shifting tones and sonorities came floating out of the speakers as I sat, meditating, on a chair in the center of the stage.

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