NAMELESS SOUND ENSEMBLE

Three Movements Based on Themes from Signal Spirits
Commissioned by The TRANsart Foundation for Art and Anthropology

Turtle was a Rifle
Score by David Dove with help from the Ensemble
Music by the Ensemble

One-Time Pads
Score by David Dove with help from the Ensemble
Music by the Ensemble

Voynich Manuscript
Score by Unknown
Music by the Ensemble

Nameless Sound Ensemble
Anthony Almendarez - trumpet
David Dove - trombone
Ryan Edwards - voice
Juan Garcia - double bass
Ryan Stickney - voice
Joe Wozny - guitar

The lesson of Stanislav Petrov may be summoned for this performance.

Turtle was a Rifle
By subtly altering pixels in a digital image, or by subtly altering an actual object, hackers can trick computer vision systems into mistaking one familiar image for another. Say -a turtle for a rifle, or a stop sign for a 45-mile-per-hour speed limit sign. What do our ears register when minute changes are made to familiar sonic shapes?

One-Time Pads
A one-time pad is an uncrackable encryption tool using a key shared between a single transmitter and a single receiver. Through number sequences that can only be deciphered by a pad, intelligence agents transmit coded instructions via short­wave radio. Employed by many countries, number stations and one-time pads date back as far as World War I, and are still in use today.

Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is a codex of unknown origin. Carbon-dated to the early 15th century and thought to have been composed in Italy, the manuscript con­tains 116 pages (of what may have originally been up to 272 pages) of illustrations, diagrams, and an unknown script that has never been successfully decoded. The Ensemble will use one page of the Voynich Manuscript as a graphic score for im­provisation.

The Nameless Sound Ensemble is an expanding pool of creative experimen­tal musicians, drawn from for various musical, sonic, and performance projects. Nameless Sound was founded in 2001, originally as a branch of Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening Institute. Nameless Sound is a non-profit organization that pres­ents local, national, and international artists in the field of experimental music. In addition, Nameless Sound implements a creative music workshop program uti­lizing collaborative improvisation towards goals of knowledge exchange, healing, creative work and play. These workshops happen every day, year-round, in Hous­ton public schools, refugee communities, homeless shelters, and other partnering locations.