Dreamer Dreamt
The Humbling
Vermont
See You at Riis
Speaking Sentences Backwards
Filling Holes
Between Isolation
Earth is a Breathing Valley
Music for Unfinished Instruments
Acoustic Ephemera
Partials (from the frozen mud field)
Intimate Views
Continuous Becoming
Interrobang
Light, Color and Geometry
Dark and Pretty Flat
Vortex

Cody Boyce is an artist and musician based in Queens, NY. He has composed for dance, film and installation, including collaborations with his sister, choreographer Esmé Boyce; filmmakers Joseph Barglowski, Robert Orlowski, Miriam Gabriel and Sophia de Baun; and artists Matthew Schreiber, Osvald Landmark and Ryan Hartley Smith. He makes improvised music with Matti Weisberg, aka Fruiting Body.

Acoustic Ephemera and

Transmissions of Weakness

2020

Text and scores by Cody Boyce
Photography and Design by Kyle Richardson
Poems by Morgan Võ, from Lights of Earth (2019)
Cyanotypes by Josiah Valle Ellis

MFA thesis text situating recent musical compositions in relation to ‘weak noise.’ The text traces the development of the feedback zither system integral to Folded Cyanotypes —an ongoing series of graphic and text scores—and examines the influence of composers Harry Partch, James Tenney, Éliane Radigue, Arnold Dreyblatt and Ellen Fullman.

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