PRESS PLAY Episode 62: walkside, lost

June 5, 2025
walkside, lost* (2015)
Jason Thorpe Buchanan (US), composer

Joyce To, percussion
Ryan Scott, percussion
Gregory Oh, percussion

Programme Note:

walkside, lost and gimme shelter are two works in a cycle of compositions for three percussionists, electronics, and live video processing on texts by American poet Darcie Dennigan written specifically for these commissions, the first for Gaudeamus Muziekweek & Slagwerk Den Haag. The pieces revolve around the structural intersections of precisely notated gestures that influence human performance with software systems that influence behavior of multimedia, the obfuscation or recontextualization of semantic content in speech, and the way in which confusion and ambiguity distort a participant’s perception. The systems I have designed for these works serve to generate reservoirs of video and audio in real-time that are recalled, manipulated, and re-composited against themselves during the live performance in various ways throughout the work.

* Canadian premiere