I am honored to have been awarded a commission and residency at the
2019 Sampo Composition Competition, organized by
musinfo.Following this award, I have composed a new piece
Masse pétrie for cello and the live electronics system
Sampo, which will be performed by
cellist Marie Ythier. She has worked with many composers, and has recorded new works for cello and live electronics in her album
Le Geste Augmenté.I'm looking forward to working with her, and to meeting the festival
guest composers.What is the Sampo?The
Sampo is a live electronics set-up that implements a simplified version of one algorithm available on the Lexicon sound processor LXP-15. Although the Sampo hardware is quite advanced and expensive (it includes a computer and a sound card), the software's capabilities are more limited than these offered by the original LXP-15 sound processor.
Sampo implements a simplified version of the Pitch-Delay algorithm,
from the Lexicon LXP-15 sound processor. Composing for this ins…
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