Philadelphia born composer/performance artist Thadeus Frazier-Reed is involved with all aspects of interdisciplinary performance art. He began by studying Double Bass performance at Eastman School of Music before leaving to pursue his composition career. Thadeus next studied under Andrew Rudin at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. During this time his work was heavily influenced by close work with Curtis Bahn and Dan Trueman of Interface and Dawn Stoppiello and Mark Coniglio of Troika Ranch. Thadeus went on to become one of the founding members of ArcheDream, a blacklight multimedia dance theater company, based in Philadelphia. He currently attends California Institute of the Arts under the tutelage of Mark Trayle, Michael Pisaro, Tom Erbe, James Tenney and Sarah Roberts.
Thadeus’ work is concerned with the aesthetics and integration of different media in the interdisciplinary artistic community. Although the process of his art almost always uses his knowledge of the structure and timing of music, music is not always the medium. Thad’s artwork displays his background and interests in music performance, composition, ethnic instruments, dance, sculpture, audio/visual systems, electronics, technical theater, 3D graphics, computer programming, bird flight and artificial life.
His current work has two main subjects. One, defying the static nature of classical music performance by designing and building instruments whose main focus is creating music and images through movement. Two, expressing complex biologic systems as music and/or dynamic visual artwork. His works have been premiered/performed in Pennsylvania, New York, Oregon and California. When not working on his own music, Thadeus supports other performing artists by working as a technical director, mix engineer and audio technician.
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Evolving Oscillator
The Evolving Oscillator performs a simple genetic algorithm on two wavetable oscillators concurrently. Both start with a randomly generated waveform of the length specified by the user. Positions of that wavetable are then randomly replaced by values of one cycle of a sine wave. The process can be thought of as a crossfade at the sample level. Most of the interest lies in the interaction between the two wavetables as the positions changed are randomly chosen.
You can download the standalone application for MacOSX here: app
You can listen to an example run of the process here (mp3): audio
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