H. James Harkins is a composer of electronic music for live performance, based in Guangzhou, China in the Modern Music Department of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music.
Where: Rozz-Tox brewpub, Wuyangcun, Guangzhou, China
When: 808 day (8/08), 9-10 pm
Quietcode is live-coding improvisation of meditative, ambient music. I plan this to be the first in a series of concerts, with later events including collaboration with local producers.
In my semester-break rush of tidying things up, I’m pushing out a point release of my live coding framework. This is the version used in my recent performances.
Quarks.install("ddwLivecodeInstruments");
(Actually “ddwChucklib-livecode” is the name of the framework itself, but if you install ddwLivecodeInstruments, it will install the framework as a dependency — one step instead of two.)
The last tag release was October 2016. It’s a lot more stable and usable now. Also, I spent a lot of time in the last couple of weeks updating and expanding the documentation.
November 17, an improvised live-coding set at Hoodoo’s monthly Guangzhou techno all-nighter. I started in ambient style, and ended up in the straight-ahead techno territory in this excerpt:
December 16 (upcoming), an appearance at the Guangzhou International Outdoor Performance Festival.
Some years ago, my father Patrick wrote lyrics for a cabaret-style
song about the interminable train delays in Terre Haute, Indiana, and
invited (dared?) me to set them to music. So I did.
It took a few years, but here is a simple reading for voice and piano,
by Patrick’s colleague at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Tracy
Richardson.
Just released: An early version of a new SuperCollider Quark,
ddwLivecodeInstruments, a set of ready-to-play instruments for my
Chucklib-livecode system. Along with this, I’ve added a Tutorial
section to the Chucklib-livecode
manual,
which uses the new instruments to get users started quickly.
I’m looking for testers to read the tutorial, try the examples,
and play with them. Details below the jump.
Southern California residents: My friend and grad-school colleague Christopher Adler will present a recital of modern music for the khaen (a Lao/Thai free-reed mouth organ), including the world premiere of my new piece for khaen and electronics, Late Passing.
Thursday, November 2, 7:30 p.m.
USD: University of San Diego
Founders Chapel
5998 Alcala Park, San Diego
Electro-Music 2017 uploaded video from my August 5 live-coding performance. It’s a new level of musicality in live-coding for me. https://vimeo.com/230615656
Finally, after two years, I’ve updated the live coding video on my front page. It’s a fresh performance of material that I played in a concert at Xinghai Conservatory this week (June 19). With the new generator framework, the music develops faster, into a more complex texture, than I could manage before. It’s a new milestone.