stratashift

Stratashift is a networked, hierarchical/political computer music system. Players send messages between one another in a tightly controlled rule based system, triggering sounds, and restructuring the hierarchy. An email I wrote prior to rehearsal for a performance at the YUD space in San Francisco:

This system will take a little time to get to know, perhaps 5-10
minutes of being open to it and figuring out how we want it to sound.
To reiterate, the "system" is basically a hierarchy of communication
between players. Each time a Stratashift occurs, every player's
position in the hierarchy is changed. If you're the top, 1, then you
can send bangs to players 2 and 3. If you're 2, you can send to
players 4 and 5, and if you're 3 you can send to players 6 and 7.
Players 4, 5, 6, 7, the lowliest, get to / can only blast (or not)
player 1 with bangs. Anyone can initiate a Stratashift or global
Noise Floor change at any time. The idea is to transcend the system
and work together sonically.

Gretchen will be orating (at this point processed Buddhist texts...).

role(s):

• Composer / sound designer

• System engineer

• UI/UX designer

• Software developer

technology:

• Max/MSP