Selected Compositions by Bob Gluck

'Eighteen Hands', software-based custom-designed performance interface for live improvisatory performance, computer-assisted piano, 2006.

'Electric Brew Prelude' (2006)
'Electric Brew' (2005)
Movie clip of a 2005 performance of 'Electric Brew' at the Spanish Synagogue in Prague
Two works for computer-assisted piano, shofar and computer interface based upon themes from Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew'

'Shofarrr' (2005). Live interactive electronic work for ram's horn and computer interface, designed with Max/MSP; at times incorporated within the work 'Electric Brew'.

'Questions, questions' (2005)
A structured improvisation for computer-assisted piano and computer interface, based upon themes from Dave Holland's 'Q&A'

'Prague Soundscape' (2005). Electroacoustic soundscape composition.

"Layered Histories" (2004) Immersive interactive music and video installation, with Cynthia Rubin.

'Sazmin' (2004), electroacoustic composition; included in the Vox Novus 60 x 60 Project performances and forthcoming CD on Capstone Records (2005). Public listenings: University of Maine; Weisman Museum (Minneapolis); National University of Music (Bucharest, Rumania); Klosterneuburg (Austria), Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis).

"Harpsi" (2004)
Live electronic performance (Max/MSP processed harpsichord)
mp3 clips: one, two, three

1. 'Zamir' (2003), for saz and electronics

2. 'Sshofar' (2002), for shofar and electronics

3. 'Doina' (2003), for saz and electronics

4. 'Shofar' (2002), for shofar and electronics

5. 'Interlude' (2003), for saz and electronics

6. 'Shofaralong' (2001), for shofar and electronics

7. 'Electric Songs' (2002), for voice and electronics
a. Movement I
b. Movement II
c. Movement III

'Cape Cod Imaginary Landscape' (1974), music concrete. mp3 (excerpt)

"Shirim Hashmaliyim'" (Electric Songs), 2002.
Life electronic performance (eBoard, voice, Max/MSP interface, and electronics)
Premiere: Flea Theater (New York City), April 2002 with Zoe B. Zak (voice)
mp3 clip

"Miles Before," 2002.
Live electronic performance (Max/MSP, processed Saz, outiftted with I-Cube sensors).
Premiere: Congregation Ohav Shalom, Albany, New York, January 2002. mp3 (excerpt)

"Shofaralong," 2001.
Live electronic performance (Max/MSP, processed ram's horn, I-Cube sensor glove controller, 10:00).
Premiere: Schenectady JCC, November 2001. Supported by a commission grant from Meet the Composer. mp3 (excerpt)

"Klezfez," 2001.
Live electronic performance (eBoard controller, Max/MSP, klezmer sound samples, processed acoustic 'dulciharp', 15:00).
Premiere: Mobius (Boston) and Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, April, 2001.
(mp3: excerpt 1)
(mp3: excerpt 2)

"Sounds of a Community," 2001.
Interactive sound installation (eInstruments, Max/MSP interfaces).
Premiere: Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock, NY, March, 2001.
New installation elements premiered in January (Congregation Ohav Shalom, Albany, New York, and April 2002 (Flea Theater, New York City)

"Woodstock Soundscape," 2000 - 2002.
Through-composed soundscape composition.
Premiere: Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock, NY, March, 2001. mp3 (excerpt)

"A Neighborhood Somewhat Different From Your Own," 2000.
Live electronic performance (eBoard controller, Max/MSP, sound samples from Mideast conflict, 20:00).
Premiere: Dartmouth College and Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, Nov./Dec. 2000. Brief Quicktime movie clip.

"On Many Streets," 2000.
Soundscape composition with digital processing (7:50). mp3 (excerpt)

"Ashkenazi," 2000.
Live interactive performance (Max/MSP, 20:00).
Premiere: Schenectady (NY) JCC and Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2000.

"S'fat" (in progress).
Live electronic opera (projected length: 2 hours). Score example.

"1384 Grand Concourse," CD ROM,1999. Interactive sonic/visual environment.

"Bachcycles," 1999.
Live electronic music and interactive images, in collaboration with visual artist Dina Williams (15:00).
mp3 (35 second excerpt)
Here is one of the visual images I created for this work.
Here is a second. Two of the icons on the home page of this web site were also from this project. Ms. Williams' images were animated still photographs of bicycles in Amsterdam. Thus the title 'Bachcycles'.

"Scene/Seen in Shul" (19:40)
1 a. Antechamber before services (4:08)
2 b. Maariv (3:17)
3 c. Pages turning/Torah Aliyot (2:59)
4 d. Davening (2:53) mp3 (excerpt)
5 e. Group prayer (2:44)
6 f. Closing (3:39) mp3 (excerpt)

"Yiddish Songs" (18:37)
7 a. Unter dem kindes vigele (7:48)
8 b. Mir zaynen nikhter (1:27)
9 c. Oyfn pripetshik (3:35)
10 d. Unter di khurves fun Poyln (5:47)

11 "Jonah Under The Sea" (9:57)

Public performances of segments of Stories Heard and Retold:
"Humor y Aliento," Second International Sound Art Festival, Mexico City (2000).
"Radio Burst," Conference on Acoustic Ecology, Trent University (2000).
Czech Radio Channel "Vitava." (2001)
Virtual Africa/"The Spirit and Power of Water" web show (2001).

"Yiddish Songs II," soundtrack to Inherited Memories,video by Cynthia Rubin (3:48), 1997.

Public premiere of Inherited Memories: 1997 SIGGRAPH animation festival, Los Angeles CA; "Ritual Acts: Videos by Women," MediaSpace at the DeCordova Museum, Boston, MA (1998); Subsequent showings: 2nd Annual VideoUS (2000), Stockholm, Sweden; 2001 Glasgow Film Theatre (in conjunction with CADE), Glasgow, UK; Rochester, NY Film Festival (2001). 1998 performances of "Yiddish Songs II": Israel Festival's electro-acoustic concert at the Berlin Hochschule der Kuenste, Collage Jukebox 98, Kunst In Der Stadt II, Bregenz.

Some Places I Have Been,Private release, 1995.

A Sampling of Early Works

"A Journey," Buchla modular system (9'30"), 1974. mp3 (excerpt)

"Cape Cod Imaginary Landscape," music concrete (10'10"), 1974. mp3 (excerpt)

"For the Moose," electronic tape ("Homage a Bulwinkle," 1974), piano and percussion (9'28"), 1975.

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