CLEAT (Chicago Laboratory for Electroacoustic Theatre) Residency
In November 2024, Sarah Belle Reid and Ryan Gaston presented a structured improvisation for piccolo trumpet, MaxMSP, and homemade electronic instruments. The piece was commissioned and developed over the course of 2024, using the 16-channel CLEAT system at Elastic Arts Foundation. Much of the sound material explored in this work is created from very short bursts or grains of sound, which are strung or clustered together to form larger gestures. To accomplish this, they use a granular sample player built in MaxMSP, and a hardware-based pulsar synthesizer—a new instrument developed by Gaston specifically for use in this piece. The result is a dynamic, unpredictable soundscape that swings between sparse, delicate textures and frenetic swarms of noise.
