About Jeff
Anne Arundel County
For over 20 years, Jeff Carey has performed synthetic noise music with a physically controlled software based instrument of his own development called ctrlKey. He is an avid electro-instrumental improvisor and is a composer of multichannel acousmatic music. His music is abstract and sculptural, full of shapes and gesture, colored by noise bursts, percussive glitches and shifting resonance. His work often incorporates extramusical elements like strobe lights, lasers and computer animation all… more
Visual Music: Precursor to Hypercube, Prototype for Movement with Feedback, Live performance
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Precursor to Hypercube by Jeff CareyPrecursor 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 music by articulating musical phrases physically and visually. 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. Seat-belted into bass 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 transducers on the seating, sound transmits through visitors bodies, and the experience becomes totally visceral. Strobes flash and beams of laser light fill the field of vision.
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Active seating design for Precursor to HypercubeActive seating design for Precursor to Hypercube. Seatbelt, headphones, headphone amp for volume control, two SubPac subwoofers (bass for your body) on the seat and back of the chair, and a panic button. -
Precursor to HypercubeStill image of Precursor to Hypercube from the audience perspective. -
Precursor to HypercubeStill image of Precursor to Hypercube from the audience perspective. -
Precursor to HypercubeStill image of Precursor to Hypercube from the audience perspective. -
Precursor to HypercubeStill image of Precursor to Hypercube from the audience perspective. -
Prototype for Movement with FeedbackPrototype 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.
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Jeff Carey performance excerpts 2009-2018These video excerpts from 2009-2018 feature the use of electro-instrumentally controlled strobe light arrays and laser projections.
