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composer	Nathan Davis (b. 1973)
publisher	Mytoeses Music (ASCAP)http://www.nathandavis.com
recording	Unreleased studio recording
duration	11:09

about the music

Nathan Davis:

"Crawlspace is computer music in the most literal sense. I have a noisy laptop, and after months of frustration at hearing its various whirrs in the background of quiet recordings I was making, I decided to embrace the natural voice of this instrument. All the sounds in Crawlspace are either acoustically generated by the computer's drives and liberated by handheld microphones, or are digital chirps and groans spat out directly from an incompatible audio interface for completely nonmusical reasons. Some of these sounds are processed by the same computer, which generates more sound as it processes itself. As the title suggests, the narrative seeks expanse and depth within a tiny, claustrophobic environment."

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Composer and percussionist Nathan Davis (b. 1973, Alabama) earned degrees in composition and percussion at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where his principal teachers were Samuel Jones and George Burt. He continued his studies on a Fulbright scholarship with Robert Van Sice at the Rotterdams Conservatorium in the Netherlands, and at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Davis is a cofounder of the electroacoustic cello/percussion duo Odd Appetite and the sextet Non Sequitur, and performs new and traditional Balinese music with Gamelan Galak Tika. He has recorded solo and chamber works for the Bridge, Centaur, Cold Blue, and Karnatic Lab labels. Davis' music has been performed in the United States, the Netherlands, at the World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, Canada, and Festival de la Música Electroacoustica in Cuba. His work Diving Bell (2002) for triangle and processing was a winner of the 2003 ISCM Composers Competition; he has also received two grants from the Meet the Composer Fund, including a commission to write and perform a program of pieces for percussion and electronics at the 2002 Outer Ear Festival in Chicago.

Before relocating to Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2004, Davis taught percussion and led ensembles at Dartmouth College and Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire.

related websites
http://www.oddappetite.org/bios.shtml