bent [2017], bent v.2 [2019], variable duration.
Custom Max/MSP/Jitter environment, found footage, variously processed/sourced digital audio, and live ensemble.
Original iteration commissioned and performed by Ensemble Pamplemousse.
Second iteration commissioned and performed by wildUp, presented by the Soraya stage at CSU Northridge.
Natacha Diels - amplified piccolo, narration
Dave Broome - sampler
Andrew Greenwald - drums
Jessie Marino - cello
Weston Olencki - concept, live electronics, video
Bryan Jacobs - moral support :)
bent is an incomprehensible glut of data ripped from free video sites and streaming services; a backlog of human and algorithmic data accumulation focused on the material history of a band; a continuously degrading trash heap siphoning malfunctioning content back into the archival ‘Long Tail’ of the web’s network of hyperlinks and window displays. It is essentially a piece about mediation, a situation where the glitching artifacts of virtual mediation overwrite the very content its showing.
Chris Rountree - conductor, narrator
Erin McKibben - flutes
Breana Gilcher - oboe
Brian Walsh - clarinets
Archie Carey - bassoon
Allen Fogle - horn
Jonah Levy - trumpet
Mattie Barbier - iPad
Seth Olinsky - guitar
Sonya Belaya - keyboards
Matt Cook - drums
Jodie Landau/Derek Tywoniuk - vibraphones
Weston Olencki - concept, live electronics, video