Video – Coppice

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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Concrete Core Tempering

A dream construct.
Concrete Core Tempering
The music of Concrete Core Tempering can be found in Green Flame (caduc., CA)

Format: Video
Duration: 30 minutes
Date: December 2017
Open On Occluding Devices

A construction site.
Open On Occluding Devices
The music of Open On Occluding Devices can be found in Open On Occluded Conditions (untitled folder, RU, 2017)

Format: Video
Duration: 45 minutes
Date: December 2017
Circumpass

A non-narrative glance.
Circumpass
Circumpass compiles selected textures from various recorded compositions, while its images feature objects and materials from Coppice’s studio including free reeds, reed boxes, funnels, plastic tubing, drawing and remnants of sculptures.

Format: Video
Duration: 6 minutes
Bypass Projection

A stage projection.
Bypass Projection
Video projection accompanying live performances of Bypass, for amplified pump organ and tape processes. The music can be found (separated) in Bypass Ideal (Hideous Replica, UK)

Format: Video
Duration: 23 minutes
Date: April 2014

Concrete Core Tempering

Concrete Core Tempering

Open On Occluding Devices

Open On Occluding Devices

Circumpass

Circumpass

Bypass Projection

Bypass Projection