Piano Dreamscapes Ice-Flow Isolation - A case study in binaural mixing for multi-speaker arrays

Abstract

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Piano Dreamscapes Ice-Flow Isolation is the third in an ongoing series of works focused on transformations of piano improvisations done by myself, as well as collaborators Simon Henley & Neusha Taherian. Composed in remote collaboration throughout late 2020 and early 2021, the piece explores concepts of isolation through spatialization, granular synthesis & spectral transformations. I investigate the process of creating a piece that is both fulfilling to listen to in binaural as well as large speaker array systems from home, with minimal hardware and largely spatialized using the free SPARTA software, without compromising on the compositional quality or techniques used. I also outline some novel expansions on existing spatialization techniques such as timbre spatialization which arose during the composition process.