Producing Kombination XI: Using Modern Hardware and Software Systems for Composition

The author discusses two topics related to the realization of his composition Kombination XI: A Ritual Place for Live and Processed Voices. The first is his development of a notation system and a set of software tools based on weighted trees that span the expressive and structural domains of music. The second is his process of realization, in which several different digital signal-processing software and hardware systems were used in consort as one instrument.