Songs for Two Hands (Electronic Études)

2024

Songs for Two Hands are moments of reflection. Each of these works grows from the seed of an improvisation with a focus on a specific aspect of live electronics: turning reverberation into a sonorous wall, distorting field recordings into textures beyond recognition, looping melodic delays, and scattering granulation. Spinning sonic webs between naturalistic and synthesized realms, these pieces blur the boundaries between real and imagined spaces.

Solo piano, synthesizer and electronics, composed, performed, and recorded by Julie Herndon

Mastered by Emilie Daelemans

Photo credit: Dave Kerr, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

Performance History:

- Line Upon Line Winter Festival, Austin, TX, 2024 (premiere)

- San Francisco Tape Music Festival, CA, 2024

- Indexical, Santa Cruz, CA, 2024

- Little Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, 2024

- Solarc, Los Angeles, CA, 2024

- Beauty Salon, Los Angeles, CA, 2024

- The Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA, 2024

- San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, The Lab, SF, CA, 2024