derek kwan | music

Live Coding

magic smoke (2012) - for laptop, smartphone, inductive telephone pickup, and live processing
Product Emotions and Personality Assessment (2017) - for live processed electric guitar and voice
shimmer go slowly (2012) - for glockenspiel and electronics
shoebox memories (2014) - for kalimba and live electronics
streetlight puddle night (2010) - for glockenspiel
talus bear (2017) - for electric guitar

Silky Anteaters (2010) - for violin, double bass, drumset, vibraphone, electric guitar, and percussion
violetblue clouds forever (2010) - for flute, vibraphone, and glockenspiel

airportmusic (2016) - fixed-media sonification of Hong Kong airport arrivals and departures
deep dark everblue (2017) - live improvisatory, slowburning, ambient Pure data patch
dxk2kish (2010) - an album of old GarageBand tunes from the late 2000s/early 2010s
dxk-sc140 (2017) - series of SuperCollider tweet-sized miniatures
fiahwrkz (2012) - for 2-channel fixed media
lucas-1%14_0116 (2016) - melodies based on Lucas numbers
mirror creatures (2018) - drone-centric improvisatory composition realized in Pure Data
pinblue 52 (2018) - 15-EDO whale drone
putchar (2015) - c code to aplay
starsilt sky (2019) - electronic track derived from a single ducilmer busker sample

Earle Brown - December 1952 (2013) - for found percussion and historical radio broadcasts
John Cage - Fontana Mix (2013) - for found percussion and live electronics
Liza Lim/Derek Kwan - Love Letter/Fuckbird (2015) - for frame drum and live electronics after text from James Joyce
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Solo Nr. 19 (2015) - for vibraphone and automated delay lines
John Cage - Variations II (2013) - for percussion and fixed media