Shows
Mark CetiliaLive At SonoriumLive at Sonorium on March 16, 2019 at the Gallow’s Hill Theatre in Salem, MA as part of an evening organized by Andrea Pensado alongside Golden Shores, Charmaine Lee, and Serrated Slump.2019-10-2219 min
Mark CetiliaStack / ShearStack / Shear is a multichannel sound work that combines improvised modular synthesis performance with voltage-controlled higher order ambisonic panning techniques and chance procedures that determine cutting, pasting, and layering of sonic elements in real time.
Modeled after architectural strategies put forth in Lewis, Tsurumaki and Lewis’ 2016 Manual of Section, Stack / Shear may take the form of a improvised performance, a fixed media work, or a generative composition to be presented in an installation context utilizing archival recordings of improvised performances.
Taking advantage of the flexibility of higher order ambisonic panning techniques using SuperCollider’s SC-HOA libraries, Stack / Shear can be real...2019-10-1818 min
Mark CetiliaChiasmaChiasma is a newly commissioned composition for Gendér Wayang and electronics, that was premiered as part of a day-long Experimental Gamelan festival at the Epsilon Spires Sanctuary in Brattleboro, VT on September 28, 2019 by Zach Hazen and Zach Hejny (Gendér Wayang), and Mark Cetilia (electronics).
In this piece, the Gendér Wayang part may be performed by one or two players, and is written using Titilaras Nding-Ndong notation, in the order of O E U A I o e u a i, where capital letters denote the lower five notes of the instrument. The electronics part for the piece uti...2019-10-1526 min
Mark CetiliaDissolution (Live At Issue Project Room)Stereo mixdown from quadraphonic performance of Dissolution (2013) at Issue Project Room as part of Harvestworks’ Performance Now! series.
Dissolution is a site-responsive improvisation that utilizes Cetilia’s performance platform Fraktur (2001 – present) to explore the physicality of sound and the behavior of nonlinear feedback loops. Beginning with electrical energy as a raw material, and taking into account the conditions of the site in which the work is presented, Cetilia sets into motion evolving and unpredictable processes, and examines the ways in which they unfold. His role in this operation is that of an observer and a regulator, guiding the trajectory of a give...2019-03-1538 min
Mark CetiliaPrecipice (2018)Stereo audio render from the generative system used in Precipice, a sound installation on display at the RISD Museum as part of the biennial RISD Faculty Exhibition and Forum. Comprised of weightless tones and bits of sonic dust, Precipice is a generative composition existing at the edge of perception. This piece utilizes six hyperdirectional speakers and custom software running on a single-board computer to create a highly spatial experience of sound that is nearly as absent as it is present.2018-04-0520 min
Mark CetiliaLive At Machines With Magnets 10.21.17 (Excerpt)Analog modular, Rolen Star, Schertler DYN-C P48, sheet metal.
October 21, 2017. Pawtucket, RI.
Photo by Xiohan Li.2018-01-2310 min
Mark Cetiliapp > pcomposed + performed by
akiko hatakeyama / alfonso subiotto marques / ben shack sackler / bridget ferrill / caroline park / dan putnam / derek fukumori / luke moldof / mark cetilia / mike ravella / nick demarco
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in this piece, each performer may make two sounds of their own device over the course of an hour-long performance, and may respond to sounds from other performers or external sound sources up to four times.
the responses should occur either during the occurrence of the external sound source or within one second of the external sound’s decay to silence.
each sound (statement or response) can be...2013-12-181h 00
Mark CetiliaMem1 - Vela (2011)Unreleased Mem1 recording recently unearthed from the archive for Non-Event's year-in-review podcast. Be sure to check out the full podcast, which features unreleased, rare, and forthcoming material by artists who performed at Non-Event concerts in 2011 including Mark Fell, Francisco Lopez, Aster and Rafael Toral with Chris Corsano, and be sure to donate to their Kickstarter campaign to ensure the continued success of this important series.2011-12-2407 min
Mark CetiliaLacunaeLacunæ is a piece for cello, lighting system and electronics that utilizes a dual-stage system. The first stage is a score-generation algorithm, and the second is reactive software capable of realtime sound manipulation and control over lighting in the performance space. In order to generate the score, a performer enters a desired performance length and a set of pairs of notes on adjacent strings that may be played simultaneously.
Based on the mathematical relationships between the note-pairs and the results of a series of coin-toss algorithms, a structure is created that defines the sequence and length of time that each p...2011-12-2410 min
Mark CetiliaGlossolalia (1995)Unreleased 4-track recording from 1995, recently unearthed from the archive for Non-Event's year-in-review podcast. Be sure to check out the full podcast, which features unreleased, rare, and forthcoming material by artists who performed at Non-Event concerts in 2011 including Frank Bretschneider, Marcus Schmickler, Vic Rawlings, Geoff Mullens, Jason Kahn and Bryan Eubanks, and be sure to donate to their Kickstarter campaign to ensure the continued success of this important series.2011-12-2407 min
Rare Frequency PodcastPodcast Special Ed. 50: Mem1 Live 01/13/11
On January 13, 2011, Mem1, the duo of Laura (cello, electronics) and Mark Cetilia (synthesizer, electronics) performed live on Rare Frequency. Due to a few technical difficulties, this podcast features a lovely set recorded earlier in the day at the Mocoxon Studios in Providence, RI, which they provided specially for this podcast.
Podcast Special Ed. 50: Mem1 01/13/112011-01-2102 min