Michael Duffy

Michael Duffy composer, improviser, and sonic adventurer.

(b.1976) guitar, clarinet, trumpet, 4-track, and drums as a youth lead to computer-obsessed electronic and acoustic composition and improvisation. Co-founder of the Contemporary Music Workshop and Assistant Director/Co-Curator of the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. Currently living in Minneapolis, MN.

Contact

newsoundconst at gmail.com

Tools used

Max/MSP, Csound, OpenMusic, AudioSculpt, SPEAR, SoundHack, Logic Pro, Photoshop, Sony MZ-N707/EC-MS 907, cymbals, bells, drums of all kinds, various hardware effects boxes, mixers, guitar pedals, contact microphones, etc.

Audio

License: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5

Recent Work

Shield Your Eyes - Duo with Schuyler Tsuda

The Fire Sermon score
Irvine Arditi - violin solo

Obair Phairce score
for oboe, contrabass clarinet, contrabassoon, viola, cello and electronics
Ensemble of the CMW

Franklin is Buried
fixed media - processed field recordings and found sounds

Live at Acadia Cafe
Seth Alt - metal sheet and electronics; Jeff Beddow - interlaced feedback, cymbal, voice; Mike Duffy - appropriated sounds and electronics; Mike Hallenbeck - laptop electronics.

Acoustic Works

Untitled (trio)
performed by members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Joshua Rubin (bass clarinet), Dave Schotzko (marimba), and Kivie Cahn-Lipman (cello)

Four for Six
strings and percussion in four continuous movements

Electro-Acoustic Works

Oiche mhaith (good night)
fixed media - processed field recordings

29_3_05_a
hybrid electronics/computer set-up processing contact mic-ed cymbal

29_3_05_b
a more rhythmic set with same rig

8_4_05
duet with percussionist James Borchers

Elliot Turned Two Last Week
reflections on two children’s toys

Recollection and Variation
bastardized drumloops and long dormant fragments from the hard-drive

28_1_04
‘bent data files bring out shifting harmonies.

5_4_04
drumloops, granular processing

Old Work Song
the monotony of teletypes, typewriters and the blacksmiths anvil

A Herd Adrift
processed Shepherd tones.


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