Barpieces are audio scores of twelve computer music inventions worked out by Charles Engstrom and Christopher Fleeger in live performances around North Florida from 2001 to 2004.

Ideas about gathering places as social and sonic resonators group this material. More narrowly, the focus became computer music performances which could maintain some revelatory utility in the hurly-burly of ordinary public listening-- in a barroom, for instance. The resulting pieces are formally simple, relatively short in duration, and try to maintain distinct timbral surfaces.

Methods include the gas laws, lissajous curves, set transformations and fourier harmonizations of the ambience in performance spaces. The sonics range from simple synthetic waveforms, excited glass, wood and metal to slot machines, washers and other timbral pointers to the everyday world of the early 21st century.

There is a short list of the philosophical residue of the process on the back cover of the disc.

Click on the Track Titles to view and listen to the scores:



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