Author: Isaac Rufus Rosen-Purcell
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The Fashioned Sound Body
The Fashioned Sound Body links the physical touch of bodies to sound composition through the use of a hand woven electronic textile jumpsuit. Performance of The Fashioned Sound Body March 1st 2025 Presented by Stillmoon Arts Society Programme notes: The Fashioned Sound body a live performance weaving music and dance together through the use of…
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Consciousness of Streams
Consciousness of Streams is a three-year interdisciplinary performance that contemplates the lost streams buried beneath the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood. Created by award-winning choreographer Isabelle Kirouac and produced by Stillmoon Arts Society. I was the composer, nusicain and music coordinator. Over the three years I worked with Zhongxi Wu (Suona and Sheng) in 2022, Solo my clarinet…
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High {In}fidelity
I started experimenting with several ways to make loudspeakers that would distort sounds sent to it. First I tried out making my own voice coils, piezoelectric crystals, and attaching speaker divers to different shaped materials. I got both my homemade voice coil based drivers and piezoelectric crystals to work but they were very quiet and…
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(Re-)Balancing – 19th Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival
Perfomance The performance was showcased and filmed in September 2021 as a part of Still Moon Arts Society’s 19th Annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival. The piece was choreographed by Isabelle Kirouac, filmed by Conor Provenzano and Wilson Mendes, and edited by Wilson Mendes. My self Playing Clarinet, chimes, and boardwalk With the amazing Clara Rose…
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Past and Future Shows
Future Shows To be announced Past Shows Being updated December 18th, 2019 – @ Bâtiment 7 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada Sunday, September 22, 2019 – Cracks in Creeks: Final Performance @ Collingwood Neighbourhood House Annex – Vancouver, B.C., Canada Saturday, April 13, 2019 – Embodied Clarinet @ Concordia Music Department – Montreal, Quebec, Canada Friday,…
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Still Moon’s Moon Fire Sculpture
Sculpture by Isaac Rufus Rosen-Purcell Based on Still Moon Arts Society’s moon lantern, originally made by Jennifer Norquist Documentation by Carmen Rosen Made with wire mesh, fibreglass rope and ethanol fuel
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My {Audio Processing} Mailbox
A programmable digital box for live sound processing What it is for My Audio Processing Mailbox is fully re-programmable as to give me access and compositional control over the digital processes effecting the sound. This enables me to program the parameters of the sound processing for every specific composition, venue, and performance. How I came…