{"id":2501,"date":"2016-07-11T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T01:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/?page_id=2501"},"modified":"2016-07-11T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T01:11:46","slug":"mobius","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/mobius\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobius"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2504\" style=\"width: 708px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2504 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius03.png\" alt=\"Mobius performed at the Stone with ICE\" width=\"708\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius03.png 708w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius03-270x87.png 270w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius03-540x174.png 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mobius performed at the Stone with ICE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Mobius<\/em>, for two music boxes, blank punch tape, scissors, hole puncher and live electronics, was co-created with my long-time collaborator and partner, Rob Dietz.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mobius<\/em> is created for four performers, two music box crankers, electronic musician and hole puncher. To create sound on a music box, I punch tiny holes in a punch tape that is then hand-cranked through a music box mechanism similar to a player-piano roll.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Each exposed hole allows one of the music box tines to sound. In this piece, the process of creating the piece becomes the piece itself. One perfomer punches out holes in real-time while two other players are cranking the strip through the mechanism simultaneously. The strip is taped together in a Mobius fashion so that one music box plays the notes upside-down. An electronic musician then loops different fragments from the separate music boxes and manipulates these sonorities in octave displacements and reverse. Through time, the piece becomes a rich collage of music box timbres similar to the ringing of bells.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mobius<\/em> can be heard on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MmkGcbMHtSI\">Starkland Records (2016) <em>Nature of Thingness.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2503\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius02.jpg\" alt=\"Mobius performed with students at SUNY New Paltz\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius02.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius02-270x180.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mobius performed with students at SUNY New Paltz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2502\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius.jpg\" alt=\"Mobius being performed at Oqaatsut, Greenland\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius-270x152.jpg 270w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobius-540x304.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mobius being performed at Oqaatsut, Greenland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobius, for two music boxes, blank punch tape, scissors, hole puncher and live electronics, was co-created with my long-time collaborator and partner, Rob Dietz. Mobius is created for four performers, two music box crankers, electronic musician and hole puncher. To create sound on a music box, I punch tiny holes in a punch tape that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2501\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}