The Electro-Acoustic Music of Jeff Albert

Jeff Albert is a musician with widely varied interests and affiliations. He is a composer, improviser, and trombonist based in New Orleans. Jeff is currently enrolled in the PhD in Experimental Music and Digital Media program at Louisiana State University, where he studies with Stephen David Beck. He holds degrees from Loyola University - New Orleans, and the University of New Orleans, and has served on the faculty of Xavier University of Louisiana, the University of New Orleans, and Loyola University - New Orleans. Jeff's electro-acoustic pieces have been performed at Electric LaTex, in recital at LSU, by the New Orleans New Music Ensemble, and by the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOLs).

Jeff is also active as an improvising trombonist and jazz musician. He performs and records with the Jeff Albert Quartet, has released 2 CDs as co-leader (along with fellow trombonist Jeb Bishop) of the Lucky 7s, and is a member of Hamid Drake's Bindu band. Jeff is the founder and curator of the Open Ears Music Series, and blogs at Scratch My Brain.

Napkin Shreds

Jeff Albert composed "Napkin Shreds" in the spring of 2009. It combines synthesized sounds and samples from the Jeff Albert Quartet recording of "(It Could Have Been a) Napkin." This piece was done entirely in Logic.

Shell Game

Jeff Albert composed "Shell Game" in the fall of 2009. All of the sounds used in "Shell Game" are presentations or manipulations of recordings of the composer playing a conch shell. This piece was assembled in Logic. Some of the events were created with Cecilia or Spear.

Jimbo and Ella Go For a Walk

"Jimbo and Ella Go For a Walk" was composed in the spring of 2009 as a class assignment. It was written in ChucK. Jimbo is Dr. James P. Walsh, a composer friend from whom I stole one of the ideas used in the piece, and Ella is my family's miniature daschund whose collar jingle is heard in the piece.

Click here to download a zip file that contains all of the ChucK files and the one audio file used to create this piece. There is some randomization in the ChucK files, so each realization from the ChucK code will be slightly different. Place all of the files in the active directory and run "play.ck".