Imaginary Network Topologies / Executive Summary
During the ’20/’21 pandemic Jeff Carey created a virtual concert platform to present synthetic, mechanical and experimental noise music on twitch.tv/2xmono in the form of two weekly shows that ran from January until the end of April:  Executive Summary is a show for very short (5 minute) performances on Monday mornings at 9 am and Imaginary Network Topologies Season Two for longer performances on Friday nights.  From October 2020 to present there have been 44 shows with 270 performances from international artists totaling more than 90 hours of music.  details here:  http://imaginary.topologies.net

Executive Summary and High Zero
Three Executive Sumary produced shows were presented on the High Zero Foundation stream during the Redroom in Your Room streaming series and the High Zero Festival.  Each featured 20 performances of newly improvised music from performers from all over the world.
https://www.twitch.tv/highzerofoundation
http://redroom.org

END OF YEAR STATUS UPDATE
Dec 30 8pm EST Imaginary Network Topologies and Executive Summary present END OF YEAR STATUS UPDATE with performances from: Andrea Pensado, Tom Borax, M.C. Schmidt &Tom Waterworth, Jayve Montgomery, Leah P,  Bromp Treb, Triggeralert, +DOG+, Proswell, Foam/Rawlings/Staubitz, Final Machine,  Like Weeds, Sreet Rat,  Carlos Santisteven, Flippin’ Idiots,  {AN} Eel, Juicemachine, Straight Panic, Vrg Bls, Don Haugen, Remst8, That Cloud, Scott Bazar, Federico Balducci,  YMGER, Giblet Gusset, Tony Lugo,  Blood of Chhinnamastika, Rose Burt, Wombat Trio, The Expanding Man , Lori Varga & Kit Young, Obie Feldi, Marc Spruit, Simon LeBoggit, Sam Burt, Evan Rossi, Alex Wing, and Kelly Harai. http://twitch.tv/2xmono

Prototype for Movement with Feedback, 2021 Prototype for Movement with Feedback is a composition for motion and sound — it is a cybernetic dance piece for moving light fixtures and electro-instrumental music. The piece uses synthetic sound and algorithmically controlled movement, yet it is imbued with personality and a human quality of communication through gesture and embodiment of sound.  Premiered on The Fuse Factory’s Frequency Friday concert series in May 2021.
Precursor to Hypercube, 2017 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.
Live Performance
These video excerpts from 2009-2018 feature the use of electro-instrumentally controlled strobe light arrays and laser projections.

ctrlKey

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 rapid changes between varied sound.  It is a meta-instrument that allows the performer to, in a flexible way, direct the sound generation process and control extramusical elements like strobe lights, laser projectors and computer animation.

Soon/ Now/ Gone
Fabricate controllers, integrate hardware and code synthesizer instruments using Raspberry PI computers with Teensy controller boards and Supercollider in support of Erik Ruin and Rosie Langabeer installation at Site/Sound in Philadelphia.

Lemuria
Develop sound tranformation processing for acoustic quartet Lemur in the SuperCollider programming language.  Four Raspberry PI based control stations for each instrumentalist are fed into a central computer for audio processing.  Performers are spread out in large spaces and the sound is multichannel surround.

DDrum
Develop sound transformation processing of drum kit for Swiss percussionist Nicolas Field.  DDrum uses triggers and microphones to capter and analyze drum sounds and synthesis material in response to, and under the control of the drummer.

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 to name a few.  

More info at highzero.org
and http://highzerofoundation.org

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.

DVDs, CDs, records, cassettes, memory cards

2021
V/A, Jeff Carey / Andrea Pensado / Rubber Cement / Comfort Link, 2x7" records, Speencoffin, MD USA
Jeff Carey, INT_15, MiniCD, CWnil, MD USA
Jeff Carey, COLUMNS, MiniCD and sculpture set, CWnil, MD USA

2020
Jeff Carey, Index[off], Digital, CWnil, MD USA
Jeff Carey, Gravity Wave, Digital, CWnil, MD USA
Jeff Carey, The Involute Curve, Digital, CWnil, MD USA

2019
Jeff Carey, Low Dimensional Navigation Manual Volume 1-6, Digital, CWnil, MD USA

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

High Zero 2018, Jeff Carey, Allison Clendaniel, Stewart Mostofsky
High Zero 2021, Jeff Carey, Liz Meredith, Ty Page
High Zero 2007, Jeff Carey, Donn Parker, Shodekeh, Aaron Dilloway
Jeff Carey, Audrey Chen, John Deirker trio, 2012

"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

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

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