Choose your identity provider (2020) by Jeremy Wexler published on 2020-11-29T17:57:52Z Choose your identity provider 2nd Prize, ASCAP/SEAMUS 2021 Commission Competition Presented at NSEME 2021 Presented at NYCEMF 2021 Presented at the Spektrum Conference, Kraków, 2021 Presented at the Convergence Conference, Leicester UK, 2022 My piece is a stereo fixed media composition whose source material consists largely of foley/field recordings,synthesized sounds using my collection of software and hardware synthesizers,and samples harvested from various internet sources (like plugins and popular video streaming services) as well as a few obscure and forgotten vinyl records.I used a software that categorizes the audio samples within a corpus across a grid by timbre, enabling me to scan through the samples by clicking and dragging my mouse. I recorded these improvised sessions and intuitively time-stretched, spliced, transposed, organized, and layered these sounds to form much of the piece. The constantly shifting sonic landscapes coupled with the largely found-sound materials are a gentle reference to the title. I was inspired to sardonically adopt “Choose your identity provider” as the title of the piece when I observed it being used as a prompt one might see on a website that provides a service. For me, it inadvertently summarized the constant psychological battle we’re in with our technology which I fear is eroding our abilities to express ourselves, resolve interpersonal conflicts,and many other issues. Genre Electronic Comment by jade blades that transition was really cool 2021-03-27T17:08:10Z Comment by jade blades how did you create these sounds? 2021-03-27T17:07:38Z