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Neil Rolnick (Texas, 1947) studied computer composition at
the San Francisco Conservatory, at UC Berkeley, at Stanford University and at IRCAM in Paris.
His first album Solos (1750 Arch, 1984) contains:
Ever-livin' Rhythm, Wondrous Love,
Blowing, and Loopy.
A La Mode & Real Time (CRI, 1987) contains
A La Mode & Real Time, for Neil Rolnick on digital synthesizers and ensemble.
ElectriCity (O.O. Disks, 1992) collects electroacoustic chamber works
for ensemble, synthesizer, sampler and digital processing:
the solo flute piece Blowing, Wondrous Love
(George Lewis on trombone dueting with a computer tape that provides the music
for the ensemble to improvise on)
and Ever-livin' Rhythm.
Macedonian AirDrumming (Bridge, 1992) collects computer music:
Macedonian AirDrumming (whose source is samples of Macedonian folk music,
first processed electronically and then reconfigured as rhythmic patterns),
Balkanization, Sanctus, ReRebong.
Requiem Songs & Screen Scenes (Albany, 1996) includes
Requiem Songs, a cycle of ten songs for percussion, violin and sampler, and
Screen Scenes, a computer-processed improvisation for violin, woodwinds, synthesizer, bass and percussion.
Fish Love That (Deep Listening, 2003), the name of his improvising ensemble, contains Rolnick's Calypso, Ratchet and Hush.
He has also composed
the multimedia piece Home Game (1995) for actors, instruments, video and computer;
the "opera" The Rise and Fall of Isabella Rico (2001);
The Shadow Quartet (2004) for string quartet and interactive computer system;
etc.
He moved to New York in 2002.
His computer on Digits (2006) manipulated te piano sonata
Digits (2005), the song cycle
Making Light Of It (2005), Rolnick's setting of six poems by Philip Levine,
Plays Well With Others (2004), performed by the Paul Dresher Ensemble,
and "A Robert Johnson Sampler" (1987).
The Economic Engine (2009) contains
The Economic Engine, scored for traditional Chinese instruments, string quartet and digital processing,
the 20-minute violin and piano sonata
Hammer & Hair,
and a new version of Real Time.
Extended Family (2011) contains the string quartet
Extended Family and the piano sonata Faith.
The double-disc Ex Machina (2016) upped the ante with longer pieces
of digital manipulation.
Alto saxophonist Ted Nash's improvisation drives the patterns created
by the computer in Silicon Breath (23:36).
Relnick has fun in
WakeUp (11:49), which is an algorithmic remix of Everly Brothers songs,
and
O Brother! (9:38), which remixes banjo-based folk tunes.
Relnick and pianist Kathleen Supove' alternate at controlling the computer in
Dynamic RAM & Concert Grand (30:12).
Cello Ex Machina (28:04) is driven by the improvisation of
celloist Ashley Bathgate (of the Bang On A Can All-Stars), and the computer
responds with romantic and baroque patterns.
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