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Intermediate Wobble Study

from Three Studies for Future Uncertainties by Nate Wooley

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Intermediate Wobble Study is an expansion of a smaller work commissioned by the Rubin Museum of Art for their 2016 sound exhibition The World of Sound curated by Risha Lee with help from C. Spencer Yeh and others. The original piece was only three-minutes long and played on a headphone loop as part of the exhibit.

The brief from Risha and Spencer was to respond to the question “What is the sound of creation?” At the time, I had been taken by the idea of universes forming, not as the result of a explosive outpouring of material, as in the big bang, but as the coalescing of finite amounts of material spread out over infinite space traveling inward in fits and starts, off-kilter and consistently out of balance; in other words, a sort of cosmic-creational ‘wobble’.

I considered the short piece for the Rubin museum to be a sort of primary universe, or a wobble of a specific time and space within infinity. This conception opened up the possibility of creating other universal wobbles of different sizes and shapes, all occurring simultaneously as they reach a moment of singularity—expressed here musically as a group of sidetones gathering themselves in a specific harmonic stack—before breaking back into its constituent points in space through to fizzle out on the other side.

With the exception of these stacked sine tones, all the sounds in this piece come from the trumpet and are treated with a greater or lesser degree of tape processes. The recording here is a series of 15 such ‘wobbles’, designed to be a slightly larger formal group for a utopian final version of the piece that would span days and hundreds of thousands of sound universes. For now, this will have to do.

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from Three Studies for Future Uncertainties, released May 1, 2020

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Nate Wooley Brooklyn, New York

Nate Wooley grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon. He began his professional music career at age 13 performing in big bands with his father, and studied jazz and classical trumpet at the University of Oregon and University of Denver. He settled in New York in 2001, and maintains an active schedule in jazz and experimental music in the U.S. and abroad. ... more

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