May 2011
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Dipteracoustics
Dipteracoustics by Zachary Young
This electronic sound-scape is intended as a sketch for a possible short animation collaboration currently floating around.
My Composition Recital
Click here to check out the recordings from my composition recital held April 26th, 2011. Thank you to all who made this event possible!
April 2011
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At Darmstadt
when I ...
– by John Cage
March 2011
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Among Relations
Among Relations by Zachary Young
“Boldly it proceeds, with the powers of conceptual thought alone, to the ideal reconstruction of all things, even of life. True, it hurtles in its course against such formidable difficulties, it sees its logic end in such strange contradictions, that it very speedily renounces its first ambition. ‘It is no longer reality itself,’ it says,...
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Breaking Sound
Breaking Sound by Zachary Young
“Breaking Sound” (2011) is a hybrid track in that it contains looped beats, human speech samples, live guitar processing, home-made acoustic recordings, and post-production digital manipulation. This jagged piece is an exploration of sound dismemberment.
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The Sound Particle: I. The Activity of Sound
The Sound Particle: I. The Activity of Sound by zacharyyoung
“The Activity of Sound” is the 1st movement taken from a larger, currently-uncompleted CD, which I have titled “The Sound Particle”. “The Sound Particle’s” main drive will be to explore the aesthetic of post-production media. I accomplish this through the incorporation and seamless fusion of...
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The Trial and Death of Socrates: I. The "Gadfly"...
The Trial and Death of Socrates: I. The “Gadfly” of Athens by zacharyyoung
EUTHYPHRO: …Tell me, what does he say you do to corrupt the young?
SOCRATES: Strange things, to hear him tell it, for he says that I am a maker of gods, and on the grounds that I create new gods while not believing in the old gods, he has indicted me for their sake, as he puts it.
EUTHYPHRO: I...
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Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light
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Brian Greene vs. Lee Smolin (The Validity of...
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Warning: Do Stay Inside
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The Tiger
The Tiger by zacharyyoung
“Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
-William Blake
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