ID#: 903

Circuit Studies (2024) ; 8:00

by Alois Cerbu

University of California, Berkeley, CNMAT

Circuit Studies is an adaptation of Uri Rosenshine’s poem by the same name, a meditation on loops, recurrences, reincarnation. Through similarly circuitous means was the audiovisual rendition realized. The musical materials were derived from a bass clarinet piece written by the composer for Heather Roche which was recorded but never performed; the visuals from mangled iPhone video footage captured from airplanes and cars. And the architectural protagonist of the piece is a manifestation of a high dimensional mathematical object, the “permutohedron.” which catalogs ways of rearrangement.