Coppice was founded by Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer in Chicago in 2009, as an inquiry into the capture and generation of music and its relationship to its physical sources.

Its compound studies include Bellows & Electronics (prepared pump organs, shruti boxes, and tape processors) between 2009–2014, and Physical Modeling & Modular Syntheses between 2014–2018; focusing on the interactions between direct and reproduced sound, and the perceptual links between original and emulated sources, respectively.

Its third study in Phonography & Fiction (in progress since 2018) scrutinizes the dynamics between its previous two studies, and their relationship to architecture and time: the acoustic preservation and obsolescence of the Yerkes Observatory’s refractor and reflector telescopes in Williams Bay being the locus of investigation.

With sustained interest in sound’s capacity to cross domains, Coppice crafts pathways between music and technology in a cross-disciplinary language, resulting in work that is an overarching documentation of experimental music in-formation. Operating in cycles of instrument construction and modification, recordings, and live presentations, its productions incorporate sound design, sculpture, installation, software, images, and video.

Observatory Sound: Simulated Diffusion in the Likeness of the Yerkes Observatory

Rotations in Refractor
Turning in Reflectors

Recorded in May 16 and 24, 2018 at the Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

Composed in 2021 using virtual acoustics of the Yerkes Observatory, through which are simulated the diffusions of the works Circumpass (2013) and Compass (2018), each of which abridges Coppice’s studies in Bellows & Electronics (2009-2014) and Physical Modeling & Modular Syntheses (2014-2018), respectively.

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><a href="https://futurevessel.bandcamp.com/album/observatory-sound-simulated-diffusion-in-the-likeness-of-the-yerkes-observatory">Observatory Sound: Simulated Diffusion in the Likeness of the Yerkes Observatory by Coppice</a>

Format: Digital
Label: Self-released
Artwork: Coppice
Duration: 35 minutes
Date: June 2022