maskings: dissemination

The primary site of public dissemination for the practice and research was through recordings, where the work formed a thirteen-part collection of music called (s)kin.¹ This series received 1,961 plays through 2018;² has had radio play in the U.S.,³ the U.K.,⁴ and Germany;⁵ led to an interview on South African radio;⁶ and was featured in Wire Magazine's Adventures in Sound and Music⁷. An abridgement of the text was disseminated simultaneously on my website⁸ (which averages approximately 1500 visits per day) and Twitter⁹ on 24 November 2018. (s)kin was reviewed favourably by the critic Lee Rice Epstein for the Free Jazz Collective:¹⁰

Mixing mallets and materials, tones simultaneously float through the air and spike dramatically downwards. Yes, yes, metallic overtones and clashing sonorities abound; all the previously tossed-about phrases apply. As long as this project continues, I’ll try to find a way to write about it, and perhaps next time I’ll have some new phrasing.

This review was positive, but notably it also showed that the work had had impact on how language is used to describe the vibraphone. The research has engaged this critic in consideration of the language used when talking about music.

the second masking is also available as a peer-reviewed article in Jazz Research Journal.¹¹