Electronic performance
CCRMA / Ars Electronica
Stanford recital, Convergence, Ars Electronica
Stanford recital, Convergence, and Ars Electronica threads
- Double bassist
- Performer
- Collaborator
Artistic statement
This tower follows a line of work in which the double bass becomes a site for collaboration: with composers, electronics, space, gesture, and live processing.
Performance axis
Stanford recital, Convergence, Ars Electronica
A Stanford recital, a later Ars Electronica distinction, and an older Linz thread are held together here as one expanded-performance field.
Instrumentation / format
Double bass, augmented double bass, electronics, voice, live processing, and composer-collaboration contexts.
Stanford recital context, electronic-performance archive, and selected public sources.
Reactivation
Collaborations around new works for double bass and electronics
A public reference point for composers, institutions, and curators interested in expanded double-bass performance, notation, physical technique, vocal material, electronics, and live processing.
Electronic performance
Selected media and sources
Stanford recital documentation
Aleksander Gabrys: New Works by Graduate Composers
CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, February 7, 2020
Stanford's event page documents the CCRMA recital with Aleksander Gabryś performing new works for double bass by Stanford composers and a work by Agata Zubel.
Convergence work page
Convergence
Augmented double bass and electronics performer
Douglas McCausland's page documents Convergence as a work for augmented double bass and electronics performer, written for and developed with Aleksander Gabryś.
Prix Ars Electronica 2021 recognition
Prix Ars Electronica 2021 recognition
CyberArts 2021: Digital Musics & Sound Art
The CyberArts 2021 archive lists Douglas McCausland's Convergence in Digital Musics & Sound Art as an Award of Distinction work.
Archive context
A Stanford recital, a later Ars Electronica distinction, and an older Linz thread
Stanford recital
The Stanford event page documents Aleksander Gabrys: New Works by Graduate Composers, presented at the CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, on February 7, 2020. Aleksander Gabryś performed new works for double bass by Stanford composers Douglas McCausland, Chris Lortie, Hassan Estakhrian, Davor Vincze, Erik Ulman, and a work by Agata Zubel.
Convergence / Prix Ars Electronica 2021
Douglas McCausland’s Convergence is a work for augmented double bass and electronics performer, for Aleksander Gabryś and developed in collaboration with him. It received Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2021.
The main Convergence video is kept here beside McCausland’s work page and the Ars Electronica CyberArts 2021 page, where Convergence appears in Digital Musics & Sound Art.
Recording and process videos
Two short videos from Aleksander Gabryś’s YouTube archive are gathered as recording-session fragments: fragment I and fragment II. They sit beside the main Convergence documentation without replacing it.
The Chris Lortie / Aleksander Gabryś video preserves another Stanford composer-collaboration document from the CCRMA context.
Earlier Ars Electronica thread
A second, older Ars Electronica thread reaches back to 1999, when Eco-Ethno-Polish-Mountains-Sphæroid appeared at the festival. This archival path will be documented more fully later.
Together these materials make the tower less a chronology than a working constellation: a Stanford recital, a later Ars Electronica distinction, and a longer relationship between double bass, composition, electronics, and performance research.