Elizabeth Hoffman’s most recent computer music focuses on multi–channel works and on mixed musics where the computer is instrument, composition, and structure. Her electroacoustic music appears on the empreintes DIGITALes label and several others. Her sonification installation RETU(R)NINGS opened as a permanent, daily sounding feature of NYU’s Bobst Library Atrium in September 2019. A project of interactive computer improvisation with Jared Hauser, Matthew Levy, Alice Teyssier, and gamin will be presented in the Fall of 2020. Hoffman teaches in the school of Arts and Science at NYU.
clouds pattern. Clouds are densely symbolic; even their colors impact us: gray, dark, fluffy, light, clear, and so on. They are also visually suggestive, of abstract patterns, and of images. They are ephemeral and lack edges; and, yet, they are intricately formed. Cloud patterns also refer to good computer solutions. This piece is mostly about the sounds’ internal movement in 3-D space, achieved through spectral spatialization, within — and driving — the overall slowly changing sound mass. Thanks to a KEAR Residency at BGSU for the chance to develop this piece.