01  Haiku - Interactive Electronic Music for Akai (2025/2'00''/World Premiere)

Composer/Live Electronic Music: Jeffrey Stolet (USA)

A fleeting moment,

A world unfolds in three lines,

Life in every breath.

02  Imagined Destinies - for Contact Microphone and Kyma (2014/8'26''/Hangzhou Premiere)

Composer/Live Electronic Music: Jeffrey Stolet (USA)

Imagined Destinies is a real-time interactive performance composition for Kyma, a book and two microphones. One microphone is an inexpensive contact mic that picks up percussive impulses that control the sonic fabric of the composition; the other mic receives my voice as input and is processed in real-time. The text focuses on the challenges of two countries working towards a deep and lasting friendship. The text used in the composition comes from the Book of Imagined Destinies and the English translation is given below:

Though the torments of life have antagonized us as we trudged through our experiential miseries, our common humanity, our passions, our loves, will melt away the jagged rocks along our paths that have bloodied our feet enveloping and uniting us in the deepest of friendships as our souls entwine.

03  Tokyo Lick - for Infrared MIDI Controllers and Foot Pedals (2001/6'00''/Hangzhou Premiere)

Composer/Live Electronic Music: Jeffrey Stolet (USA)

Performer: WAN Fang (China)

I love things that are extremely fast. I also love the spectacular density of the Shinjuku District in Tokyo. The result of these joint passions is Tokyo Lick, a work for two infrared MIDI controllers, a customized interactive performance environment created in Max, and an amplified Yamaha Disklavier or MIDI sound-module simulating the sound of a piano.

04  Testimonio Objetivo - for Wacom Table and Kyma (2023/30'00''/China Premiere)

Composer/Live Electronic Music: Jeffrey Stolet (USA)

Testimonio Objetivo is a musical realization of my personal creation story from my birth in Puerto Rico, through my childhood, and into my adult present and future. The composition centers on an original Spanish text that is drawn from experienced and remembered life-events, and my feelings and perceptions about them. The composition represents a musical, symbolic, and textual narrative that articulates experiences that provides insight into how I, as a person, was formed. The composition is performed using a data-driven musical instrument that employs a Wacom tablet and Kyma system. The text does not follow any common literary form and might best be understood as existing at a point between being a literary stanza, lyrics of a song, and libretto of an opera. But it is really none of these. The text reads more like a legal court testimony, a testimony that is presented factually and without emotional expression.

05  Refractions: Paths of Knowing - Interactive Electronic Music for Custom-made Interface (2025/5'00''/World Premiere)

Composer/Live Electronic Music: WANG Chi (China)

Refractions: Paths of Knowing explores the idea that perception is never a direct mirror of reality. Just as light bends when it passes through glass, our understanding of the world is refracted—shaped and shifted—by the cognitive, cultural, and emotional lenses we choose, inherit, or construct when we try to make sense of what surrounds us.

Each refraction—each viewpoint, model, or moment of insight—is neither wholly right nor entirely wrong. It is simply a path, a partial but meaningful way of knowing. No single lens captures the whole; it is through their convergence, contrast, and layering that a fuller image begins to emerge.

This piece is not a search for certainty, but an invitation to dwell in complexity: to listen across differences, to embrace ambiguity, and to consider the weight each lens carries in shaping what we believe to be real—and in revealing who we are through the beliefs we hold.

The composition draws inspiration from the camera lens and strings as a metaphor for perception and real-time control, and from AI learning models, where multiple inputs and perspectives are processed to interpret sound and image. These metaphors mirror the human condition: fragmented yet striving for coherence, refracted yet reaching toward understanding.

06  Balance - for Gametrak and Kyma (2024/9'00'')

Composer/Live Electronic Music: Jeffrey Stolet (USA)

Balance is a realtime interactive composition for both sound and video that uses the Gametrak position tracking system, Kyma, and Max/Jitter. Two years ago I suffered a concussion. While the impact of my concussion has substantially been resolved, I have had to learn to manage disruptions in my ability to physically balance that are provoked by extended reading times of texts on computer screens which generate conflicts between my visual processing and vestibular systems. Since my primary expressive tool is the computer, this journey has sometimes proved a challenge. Still, the best way for me to develop meaningful understandings about the nature of balance, imbalance, and the essence of my condition is through musical creation. As a metaphor for this loss of control, I use algorithms that produce indeterminate results throughout both the sonic and visual domains of the piece.

07  Stillness - Read the Air - Interactive Electronic Music for MediaPipe (2025/10'00''/World Premiere)

Composer/Live Electronic Music: Jeffrey Stolet (USA)

A breath held too long,

Tension builds in silent space,

Desires clash, stillness reveals all.

Passion's silent needs.