The “Expanding…” Series
This series is an evolving body of ambient-influenced works that explore the interplay between acoustic instruments, electronics, and spatial perception. Each piece is reflecting a core interest in the gradual unfolding and diffusion of sound—not only in time, but across space, timbre, and texture. The works blur the boundary between performer and environment, using amplification, movement, and extended techniques to create immersive sonic environments.
Each composition in the series combines acoustic instruments with electronics—ranging from live processing and delay to reverb, spatial diffusion, and synthesis. A defining feature of the series is the way acoustic sound is transformed and extended via technology: reverberant tails replace direct attacks, clusters are smeared across space, and performer motion becomes part of the compositional fabric.
Expanding Field
Expanding Field explores the spatial, electronic and acoustic expansion of sound in real time. Using a circular array of six loudspeakers, the wind instrument performers walk around the audience, each equipped with wireless microphones. As they play, their sounds are captured, processed, and diffused outward into the room with delay and reverb, creating a fluid and immersive sound field. While the vibraphone gives another timbre to the music, the synth and cello create long ambient pads, to melt everything together.
Expanding Field is a meditation on how sound can move, dissolve, and take up space—an invitation to listen beyond the source, into the field it leaves behind.
Expanding Glass
Expanding Glass, explores fragility, transparency, and resonance. Using high-register textures, metallic percussion, and shimmering electronics, it evokes the properties of glass—its capacity to reflect, refract, and break. Delay, filtering, and spectral processing are used to stretch sonic material into crystalline layers.
Expanding Nature
Expanding Nature, turns toward the organic. Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena—wind, rustling leaves, birdsong, and decay—it incorporates field recordings and acoustic mimicry, creating a dialogue between the natural world and human-made resonance.