Recent Works
DeComposition USA 2020- (for expanded guitar). The Red Room-Baltimore, MD
A data ‘auralization ‘ of a graphical score based on Covid 19 fatality rates and Presdent Donald Trump’s national poll numbers from the onset of the pandemic in mid March to mid November of 2020. A random element is introduced when both increase. This was presented by the High Zero Foundation as part of an online event from the Red Room in Baltimore. More Info
Radio Resurrection-WaveFarm/ WGXC -Acra, NY
A life altering 2019 car accident acts as a point of departure for a broadcast focused on the eternal nature of radio waves and life itself. This Damian Catera/ Trish Kositzky collaboration was performed live on WaveFarm.org and broadcast on WGXC 90.7 FM in Acra, NY on December 7, 2019. More Info
E.O.H v. 2018 -De-Konstrukt-Brooklyn, NY
In this intermedia performance, a recording of Bach’s Musical Offering was fed into randomization algorithms and transformed via live improvisation. An abstracted manipulation of the score served as the projected visual component.
This was an updated version of a piece presented at Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center for the ReViewing Black Mountain 3 conference in 2011. More Info
DeComposition For Radios 2017-Fridman Gallery-New York
An improvised performance for 3 live radios and laptops. For this piece, the radio signals were fed into randomization algorithms yielding and unpredictable soundscape.
This was part of the Wave Farm 1997-2017: Twenty Performances For Twenty Years event which is a celebration of the Wave Farm’s 20th anniversary. More Info
The MYSTIC Way-Kresge and Pascal Galleries- Rampo College Mahwah, NJ (2015)
The Mystic Way was an automated audio surveillance system which was hidden in the ceiling of the cafe adjacent to the gallery. The system recorded sounds in the space and organized them into randomized soundscapes, which blended into the background. The piece was inspired by the NSA’s MYSTIC phone surveillance program, which collects bulk phone transmission data
This was part of the Turn on the Bright Lights, a show focuses on strategies of abstraction that formally and conceptually engage that which is invisible. The exhibit also included works by Kajsa Dahlberg, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jason Mena, Trevor Paglen and Adán Vallecillo . More Info
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Strategies Against Communication: NIGHT– Wave Farm- Acra, NY (2015)
NIGHT was a four episode interactive radio performance series, incorporating original composition, theatre and spoken word. The project was the latest in a twenty-year body of work utilizing chance and semiotics based compositional approaches for working with the written and spoken word. For this incarnation, the theatrical poem NIGHT, written by Patricia Kositzky and GE Schwartz served as source material for the experimental text processing. NIGHTas produced and performed during a 2015 transmission arts residency at The Wavefarm in Acra, NY. The four late night broadcasts consisted of algorithmic soundscapes, live vocals and an interactive component where participants called in via telephone and internet streaming. More Info
EOH V.6: The Magic Flute (2013)
EOH V.6: The Magic Flute was a multidisciplinary group of works revolving around Mozart’s 1791 opera. The sounds and score of Mozart’s piece serve as a point of departure for this exploration of algorithmic processing and randomization. During September and October of 2013, Outlet Fine Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn presented EOH v.6 as a solo exhibit. The show consisted of a 3 channel video installation with 5.1 surround sound and digital prints. All material was sourced from Mozart’s Magic Flute. The exhibit is part of a larger body of work exploring the interrelation between philosophical models and cultural production. The sound component of the piece was created through a series of improvised performances in Baltimore, Washington DC and Philadelphia. More Info
Baroque Treasures (2014) & The Well Tempered Clavier (2011) –Praxis Classics
The first two releases on the Praxis Classics label. Both feature radical reinterpretations of baroque music. Compositions by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Scarlatti and Albinoni are used as source material for a “decompositional” approach, where the original works are profoundly transformed into new soundscapes through the use of improvisation, digital sampling and randomization algorithms . More Info

Afternoon Delight– Droney Rose (2016)
Droney Rose is a Damian Catera/ Trish Kositzky collaborative project, where vocal harmonies, the popular song and sonic abstraction collide. Their debut album of revisionist 70’s easy listening hits is currently in the works. In this music video, a cover of the Star Land Vocal Band’s 1976 hit Afternoon Delight serves as a platform for engaging the electoral dysfunction of the 2016 US presidential campaign. Watch Video
Voyager NOW! (2013)-Hayden Planetarium, New York (INSAP VIII Conference)
The End of History (2009)-Hogar Collection, New York & Mason Gross Galleries, New Jersey
The End of History, is a series of sound installations, print editions and performances where pieces of baroque, classical and romantic music are algorithmically manipulated and remapped through random and probability based contemporary practices. The resultant soundscapes are a compellingly progressive combination of these disparate approaches and are realized via tools built in the MAX programming environment. The archival works on paper are manipulations of the source pieces’ scores, which visually represent the chaotic sonic processes. More Info
Van Vorst Park Sound Walk (2008) Jersey City Museum
The Van Vorst Park Soundwalk was an interactive sound art piece which simultaneously used the park as a musical score and instrument. The public was invited to experience the piece through portable headset radios as they walked through a loosely defined route within the park.
The piece operated with three limited-range low power fm transmitters which were situated along the route. Each transmitter played a component of the sound composition which was broadcast on a single frequency. As listeners moved through the park, with their radios tuned to the project frequency, the piece shifts and transitions between the separate components. In this enhanced environment, the listener becomes an active and crucial participant in the realization of the piece. More Info
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