1. Check out my Soundcloud for my latest tracks and works-in-progress

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  3. 2011

  4. Tibetan Mix is a track I’m working on now, using samples from Yungchen Lhamo’s

  5. Tibet, Tibet album.

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  7. 2010 

  8. SYX (Alex Kotch Remix) is a remix of the Mercury Quartet’s recording. It, and my remix,

  9. didn’t make the album, but I had fun working on it.

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  11. Cut Time Shout (Alex Kotch Hott Remix) is a remix of Stephen Jaffe’s Cut Time Shout,

  12. for two pianos. The version with live chamber ensemble was performed at Duke.

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  14. BanjoBeats

  15. Banjo samples + clarinet + beats

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  17. Detroit Counterpoint

  18. Sampled tenor saxophone sounds make up almost all of the beats, and sampled

  19. bassoon makes up all synth sounds.

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  21. 2009

Glitch_v2

    full    excerpt

GlitchyImprov

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I used a balanced, eighth-inch audio cable and my mixer to record sounds the cable made when plugging, unplugging, and scraping it. I've come up with two pieces using only sounds derived from these samples. Glitch_v2 is a recent 12-minute dance version using Ableton Live, and GlitchyImprov is the original version, using Logic. Both are unedited, improvised works.

   

  1. 18DanceMix

  2. Remix of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, live at the Nightlight in Chapel Hill, NC on 4/17/2009

  3.     excerpt 1        excerpt 2

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Context Remix

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This is a dance remix of my marimba quartet, Context, from 2006. Excerpts are from a live performance at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 2/20/2009.

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  2. 2008

  3. Sonata No. I2008/05-30006-00008-001-00 in E-minor "Reggaetech"  (8')

  4.     excerpt 1

  5.     excerpt 2

  6. This work licensed under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

  7. I wrote this for the fourth round on remixin.com.

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  9. Chopper Remix  (6')

  10.     excerpt

  11.     notes (pdf)

  12. This work licensed under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License.

  13. I wrote this for the third round on remixin.org.

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  15. Performed at a Pixilerations concert on October 2, 2008 in Providence, RI.

  16. Performed at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts on February 20, 2009 in Minneapolis, MN.

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  18. Nude (Cyborg Remix)  (5')

  19.     excerpt

  20.     notes (pdf)

  21. Written for Radiohead's remix contest in Spring 2008.

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  23. Vocograffiti Wiimusic  (in progress)

  24.     notes

  25. Written in collaboration with Benito Crawford

  26. Music for laptop, Nintendo Wiimotes, and cell phones

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  28. DesubMix  (6'; in progress)                           

  29.     excerpt

  30. processed alto saxophone and electronica

  31. live recording with me on alto from a Duke New Music concert on February 20, 2008 at Duke

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  33. 2007

  34. Time Bandit  (4')

  35.     excerpt

  36.     notes (pdf)

  37. This piece takes samples from three of my favorite Louis Andriessen compositions (De Tijd, Hout, Hoketus) and overlays

  38. melodies from John Coltrane's Naima and electronic beats from myself. I play tenor sax--mostly improvised--on this

  39. recording.

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  41. Mashup  (4')

  42.      notes (pdf)

  43.      track listing (pdf)

  44. I created this mashup for a graduate course at Duke University and have no intent to use it for any  commercial purposes.

  45. While learning about intellectual property, I had some fun with clips from Creedence, the Doobie Brothers, U2, Wu-Tang, and John Philip Sousa.

  1. Dance/Club