Musical works

After Dark is inspired by Haruki Murakami’s novel of the same title. In this story, Murakami builds a surrealist world suspended between fantasy and reality. To replicate the atmosphere of a constantly morphing sleeping city, After Dark presents a conversation between a layer of un-effected guitar and a layer of effected guitar processing through two distinct guitar pedals: the Hologram Electronics Microcosm and the Chase Bliss MOOD. The MOOD is a really special multi-effect guitar pedal; it has two channels that are aware of each other and work together to morph melodic material. After Dark uses the MOOD to create clouds of delay repeating melodies into dreamy sequences and morphing textures through audio-quality manipulation of short-looped material. Contrarily, the Microcosm is a granular effects pedal that records material and returns re-arranged interpretations using sampling, pitch-shifting, and delay techniques. The Microcosm is used to create the main ambient background accompaniment of the work. Inspired by John Cage’s minimalist aesthetic, the work re-contextualizes the relationship between effect pedal and instrument from a simple aesthetic detail to a symbiotic, parallel relationship.