One of the primary concerns in Hotbird is for the treatment of electronics as an extension of the live instrument. As with most of my mixed works, the electronics consist of a combination of pre-produced sounds and live processing. What is different about this work is the extent to which the live instrument is technically entwined with the electronics. In particular, I exploit the fact that the electric guitar emits almost no sound acoustically. When fed directly into a computer for live processing before going to the amplifier it becomes possible to turn the dry signal off completely so that all that can be heard is the processed sound. The guitar essentially becomes a controller, with the live and electronic sounds fusing into one inseparable voice.
