Shotgun Shoegaze (2018) for four electric guitars and electronics [13:40] Shotgun Shoegaze draws its inspiration from two places: the blues slide guitar tradition of the Mississippi Delta, and the distortion-drenched swells of shoegaze, born in the late 1980’s in the British Isles. Four guitars play a wide range of timbres, all of which are fed to the LoopSculptor, a custom-made patch in Max that allows loops to be transposed and time-warped in a flexible fashion. Isolated harmonics coalesce into chords; Lines disintegrate into granulated fragments… These loops are dynamically spatialized, moving in multiple trajectories throughout the hall. The result is a dense, constantly shifting soundscape, slowly evolving as one loop overlaps with the next—all captured live; nothing is pre-recorded. ————— Shotgun Shoegaze was commissioned for Zwerm by Transit New Music Festival (Leuven, Belgium), supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. It was premiered in Essen, Germany at the Ruhrtriennale on August 21, 2017, on an evening-length program titled “Our Ears Felt Like Canyons,” with lighting design by Lucas Van Haesbroeck. Repeat performances took place at Transit Festival (Leuven, Belgium), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, UK), and Spor Festival (Aarhus, Denmark).