II. Physical Modeling & Modular Syntheses

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.

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Head Turning Songs

Digital accommodation for songs with concrete voices.
Head Turning Songs
Dense Day Cooling

Coverage

The Wall

Flywheel

Fake Memories Object

<a href="http://futurevessel.bandcamp.com/album/head-turning-songs">Head Turning Songs by Coppice</a>

Format: Digital
Artwork: Coppice
Including: Coils, Fans, Motors, and Magnetically-Permeable Sheet, Copper Plate, Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, Modular Synthesizers, Multi-Material Filter, Pyrex Vessel, Transmission Line
Date: May 2019
Wet Hologram

The before and after pictures.
Wet Hologram
Wet Hologram

Wet Hologram (Transistor)

<a href="http://futurevessel.bandcamp.com/album/wet-hologram">Wet Hologram by Coppice</a>

Format: Digital
Artwork: Coppice
Including: Copper Plate, Modular Synthesizers, Multi-Material Filter
Date: April 2019
Surreal Air Fortress

Post-industrial device music.
Surreal Air Fortress
Coverage

Surveillance

The Wall

Exposure

Solvent/Emulsion

Wet Hologram

Format: LP
Label: Entr'acte (224)
Artwork: Coppice
Including: Coils, Fans, Motors, and Magnetically-Permeable Sheet, Inductive Mixing Table I, Prepared Pump Organ (Kinder), Modified Boombox III, Multi-Material Filter, Tape Case
Date: April 2018
XYZ

A chiral object of memory.
XYZ
Dense Day Cooling (Ventral)

Fake Memories Object (Descendant)

Fake Memories Object (Antecedent)

Dense Day Cooling (Dorsal)



Format: C22 lo-fi ferro cassette
Label: Falt (Falt 9)
Artwork: Chemiefaserwerk
Including: Copper Plate, Coils, Fans, Motors, and Magnetically-Permeable Sheet, Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, Multi-Material Filter, Transmission Line
Date: January 2018
Green Flame

Music for driverless dream cars on their self-driven way to the junkyard.
Green Flame
Ground

Is This The Spot?

Country Road

Afterthought

Here

Cul-de-sacs

Ashdown (Slimy)

Is This The Spot?

Emanations

Format: CD
Label: caduc. (CA25)
Artwork: Coppice
Including: Capillaries, Copper Plate, Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, Field Generating Boxes Transmitters
Date: May 2018
Open On Occluded Conditions

A molten image of songs, falsehood, and deflection.
Open On Occluded Conditions
Memory on Fake Fire Screen (POV)

Disappearing Act Monitored Over Fake Game Console

Lodge Message To Be

Burning Message/Message Burning

Inscription

Sweaters

Thought with Pollution at Simulation of Construction Site

Intercalary

Thought with Pollution at Simulation of Construction Site (Continued)

Disgusting Knot

Slimy Hideout

Burning Message/Message Burning (Embossed Emporium)



Format: Digital
Label: Untitled Folder (untitled folder 9)
Artwork: Coppice
Including: Multi-Material Filter
Date: December 2017
Fake Air Storage

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Fake Air Storage
Fake air was modeled between 2015-2016 and used in many Coppice compositions of that period. Read about and listen to Fake Air Storage at Noemata.

Format: Digital
Label: Noemata
Artwork: Coppice
Duration: 45 minutes
Date: July 2020
Preamble to Newly Cemented Dedication to Freedom

Sensual music for a folding world in which songs are directions to look.
Preamble to Newly Cemented Dedication to Freedom
Induction and Bifurcation

Flut (Tighter)

Sucked In



Format: 3" CD-R
Label: Aposiopèse (APO_11)
Artwork: Coppice
Including: Multi-Material Filter
Date: December 2016

Head Turning Songs

Wet Hologram

Surreal Air Fortress

XYZ

Green Flame

Open On Occluded Conditions

Fake Air Storage

Preamble to Newly Cemented Dedication to Freedom