Precursor to Hypercube is an immersive music installation that hovers between a thrill ride and a fever dream. Inspired by the mathematical concept of a 4-dimensional square, known as a hypercube, the composition explores the notion of multi-dimensional sound by articulating musical phrases physically and visually.

Seat-belted into sound activated chairs, holding a panic button, wearing headphones in a darkened room, visitors hear, see and feel a composition that is articulated by synthesized sound, strobe and laser lighting. Heightened by the effect of active seating, sound transmits through visitors bodies, and the experience becomes totally visceral. Strobes flash and beams of laser light fill the field of vision.

Precursor to Hypercube was made with support from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Rubys Artist Grant program and Recombinant Media Labs. Premiered at Recombinant Festival 2017.

The electro-instrument ctrlKey is a custom designed gesturally controlled software synthesis and mapping system created by Jeff Carey and used in all of his performative work. The instrument's physically controlled sound development capabilities are flexible enough to make instantaneous changes between varied sound. It is a meta-instrument that allows the performer to compose the amount of control used to direct the sound generation process. The performer can work as a solo instrumentalist or like an ensemble in a fluid environment with the left hand on the gamer keypad and the right hand on the joystick - like having the ability to perform as a violinist and as a string quartet. Virtuosic sound production and compositional organization of many voices are equally possible using ctrlKey.

As of version 3.5, the instrument has the added capability of controlling lighting networks and was used to create a series of pieces under the working title “Patterns in a Stochastic Field”. The most recent version 6.0 added the ability to control computer based animation, video and laser lighting systems used in "Precursor to Hypercube".

Zero Player Game is a simulation where information given it’s own agency becomes an evolving synthetic stream of consciousness. The initial input of the game sets guidelines for moving into future states that flow between variations of density and structure. Memory accumulates and dissipates until no moves or a stream of infinitely repeating moves remain.

Jeff Carey’s fourth CD release is electro-instrumental music performed with custom software controlled by a joystick and gamer keypad. Zero Player Game is an intensely artificial sound world where beats and bass lines are replaced with an elastic structures of synthetic texture, feedback and bit crushed noise blasts.

Since 2011, Jeff Carey has been involved in the curation, organization and promotion of performances in Baltimore at the High Zero Festival (highzero.org), Worlds in Collusion at Artscape (artscape.org) and regular concert series at the Redroom (redroom.org). His curatorial focus is centered on the many forms of electronic music and he has organized and promoted shows for Marcus Schmickler, Muyassar Kurdi, Kassel Jaeger, Lea Bertucci and Sudden Infant.

Recently, Carey co-founded the Diffusion Festival as a project of the High Zero Foundation to create a series of concerts and presentations of multi-channel electro-acoustic and acousmatic music in Baltimore. Each of the first two years of the festival has featured five events with contemporary compositions and master works focussing on a type or school of early electronic music. The first year focussed on musique concrète from the Group de Recherches Musicales (GRM) and the second year focussed on algorithmic composition and tape studio master works of early German acousmatic composition.

The 2017 and 2018 festivals also included conemporary pieces from Chris Madak (Philadelphia), Max Eilbacher (Baltimore), Lea Bertucci (New York), Robert Francis (Seattle), Cameron Shafii (Seattle), Kassel Jaeger (Paris, France), Leila Bordreuil (New York), Wobbly (San Francisco), Rjyan Kidwell (Baltimore), Vicky Bennett (United Kingdom), Twig Harper (Baltimore), Stephanie Barber (Baltimore), Madalyn Merkey (Okland, California), Farahnaz Hatam (Berlin, Germany), Nathan Corder (Berkley, California), Olivia Block (Chicago, Illinois), Marcus Schmickler (Cologne, Germany), MIke Bullock (Boston, Massachussetts), Carrie Fucile (Baltimore), Kevin Blackistone (Baltimore), Ruben Patiño (Barcelona, Spain).

In early 2017, he curated a series called "Noise Not Equal Noise Noise" focusing on builders of custom designed, circuit-bent and otherwise idiosyncratic electronic instruments at the Redroom.

Algorithmic compositions of computer generated sound controlled by rules that are composed. These pieces explore the use of granular synthesis, fft, and non standard synthesis techniques like SSP (created by Gottfried Michael Koenig) and Gendyn (created by Iannis Xenakis).

"The composer is no longer preoccupied with selecting specific notes on the scale, specific rhythms, and other such details, but rather with more generalized sets of symbols, which would be used in turn for the generation and arrangement of the musical details, and they might cease to have the importance we now attach to them." Lejaren Hiller from "Experimental Music: Composition with an Electronic Computer", 1959

"Mundane Occurrences and Presentations" CD by Office-R(6)

"And then there's the Amsterdam-based Office-R(6) whose energized interplay is never anything less than engrossing. Drawing upon electronic music, noise, jazz, and contemporary music traditions, the players attack their notty electro-acoustic improvisations with rabid ferocity. Purposeful, stop-start interplay is permeated by perpetual flux and invention with electronic sputter, bass clarinet growls, bowed scrapes, saxophone honks, and sliced voice samples endlessly circling around and colliding with one another. Sounds converge at some moments before splintering off into multiple directions the next. Mundane Occurrences and Presentations at times resembles the kind of challenging music Luciano Berio might be creating [...] in his composing prime."
 -- Textura.org

".next" CD by SKIF++

"Jeff Carey, Robert van Heumen and Bas van Koolwijk, laptops, the latter on visuals, presumably when seen/heard live.
I've carped a bit above about excess activity on the part of some of the musicians. Well, this trio of electronicists can be as active, scurrying and scrabbling as anyone...but it works. Freewheeling while managing to maintain some kind of control, they're perhaps comparable to Lehn/Schmickler in approach when they have pedal to the floor. But also quite capable of reining things in as on the lengthy "[thinner]", a fine, low, rumbling series of quivers and rustles. Good, solid recording." -- Just Outside, BRIAN OLEWNICK

These compositions deal with elasticity and the idea of renewal and variation of music. Performers are given scores that attach types of sounds and structures to passages of time and they develop phrases towards the goals defined therein. Players work together to incorporate their musical activity to develop the segments of the score interactively and are constrained by rules defining musical behavior and a structured in time.

"Point Source 01" performed by Koen Nutters (bass)

"Machine Gun Ettiquette" performed by Bjørnar Habbestad (flute, electronics) and Jeff Carey (computer)

"Untitled Structure for Seven" performed by Kjetil Møster, saxophone; Per Zanussi, bass; John Hegre, electric guitar; Bjørnar Habbestad, flute; Nicolas Field, drums; Kjetil Brandsdal, electric bass; Koen Nutters, bass; Jeff Carey, 'theNew' electro-instrument

DVDs, CDs, records, cassettes, memory cards

2018
Jeff Carey, Zero Player Game, CD, Ehse Records, Baltimore, MD
Jeff Carey / To Die split cassette, Seratus Ribu, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
Jeff Carey, HYPERCUBE, CD on CWnil, MD, USA
Jeff Carey, Section Three, clear 7" flexidisc on CWnil, MD, USA

2017
Jeff Carey, V/A Rogue Pulse: Gravity Collapse, CD, Ratskin Records, San Francisco, CA, USA

2016
Jeff Carey, V/A audio-DH, USB memory card, on iii editions, The Hague, The Netherlands
Jeff Carey, V/A Cut Up America, Cassette, Factotumtapes, Dayton, Ohio, USA

2015
Jeff Carey plays Matmos / Matmos plays Jeff Carey, CD, on Multipletap, Japan

Jeff Carey featuring Abdu Ali, 2 track cassingle on Protagonist Music, Baltimore MD, USA 

Jeff Carey, V/A A Simple Procedure, CD on Estuary Ltd, Providence, RI, USA
Jeff Carey, Deconstructed Piano, 7" polycaronate, on Estuary Ltd, Providence, RI, USA

2013
Jeff Carey, Two Fields, Cassette, on Banned Production, Glassell Park, CA, USA
Jeff Carey, [3:30], CD, on Forwind, London, UK

2012
Jeff Carey, Interrupt-Decay, CD on CWnil, MD, USA
Jeff Carey, V/A District of Noise Vol. 5, CD on Sonic Circuits DC, Washington, DC, USA

2011

Jeff Carey, V/A Unearthed From Airwaves, CD, on I/OSound, Vancouver, Canada

2010
Jeff Carey, Impulse, CD, on CWnil, MD, USA
Jeff Carey, V/A District of Noise Vol. 3, 12” on Sonic Circuits DC, Washington, DC, USA

2009
SKIF++, V/A Optophonica, DVD, on LINE Sound Art Editions, Los Angeles, CA
, USA
SKIF++, .next, CD, on Creative Sources, Lisbon, Portugal
Jeff Carey, V/A District of Noise Vol. 2, CD on Sonic Circuits DC, Washington, DC, USA

2008

Office-R(6), Recording the Grain, CD, on +3DB, Bergen, Norway 

Jeff Carey, V/A High Zero 10th Anniversary DVD+CD, on Recorded, Baltimore, MD
, USA
Jeff Carey, V/A Noiseroom, CD, on Sonig, Berlin, Germany

Jeff Carey's MoHa!, 7” record, on Rune Gramofon, Oslo, Norway

2007
SKIF++, SK++[01,02,03,04,00], CD, on Fridgesounds, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006

Office-R(6), Mundane Occurrences and Presentations, CD, on Lampse, London, UK

2005
Office-R(6), V/A N-Collective - Live at STEIM, CDr, on Authorised Version, UK

2004
87 Central, Office-R(6), V/A N-Collective - News From Holland, CD, on X-OR, The Netherlands
Office-R(6), V/A Document 1 Kraakgeluiden 1999-2003, CD, on Unsounds, Amsterdam
87 Central, V/A Visual Music 2, DVD, on NOTV/Universal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003
87 Central, V/A Visual Music 1, DVD on NoTV/Universal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

87 Central, Sax Mower, CD, on JDK Productions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2001
87 Central, Formation, CD, on Staalplaat, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2000
87 Central, V/A lockERS, 12” on ERS Records, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


1999
87 Central, self-titled, 12”, on ERS records, Amsterdam, The Netherlands