Greg White
Greg White shapes music through live computer interaction, sound manipulation and programming, often in dialogue with improvising instrumentalists. His work moves between composed electronic pieces and long-form interactive soundscapes.
With austraLYSIS Electroband he pits real-time algorithms and projected sound against saxophone, keyboards and voice. In the hour-long Memeing ex Cathedra he and Roger Dean guide streams of synthesis, samples and MIDI so ideas flourish, morph or disappear, holding tension and release across slowly shifting landscapes. Processual sets Sandy Evans skipping over synth clouds and taped loops that build toward a close-harmony climax. Fibonacci grew from his own improvisation. He also threads computer colour through GEST8’s jazz-and-koto mix, and his composed Orchid sits among two decades of WATT electronic works. Film and media composition and sound design sit alongside the concert work.
Greg White is featured on the following titles
Present Tense
An unusual release of music improvised live with computer-generated improvisations. Sandy Evans is astonishing here. Roger Dean has provided most of the germinal material.
Composer: improvisation (track 3)
Producer
Performing as austraLYSIS
austraLYSIS works across acoustic free improvisation and live computer interaction, pitting saxophones, piano and percussion against electronics in music that holds tension, risks emotion and never settles into one style.
History Goes Everywhere
austraLYSIS Electroband occupies a special place in Australian music. Formed in 1990 by Roger Dean, this trio has carved out a unique territory, pitting acoustic instruments against computer-generated material in live performance.
Composer
Sonic Stones
Sonic Stones presents two sides of austraLYSIS’s computer-mediated practice. PianoStones is a fully composed digital work that transforms natural stone sounds and pre-recorded piano by Dean into a continuous sonic field.
Composer
Acouslytic
Acousmatic and electroacoustic works from Roger Dean and Hazel Smith with austraLYSIS. Dean's music and Smith's words form a distinctive soundworld that challenges, inspires and intrigues.
Performing as GEST8
Kaleidoscope
GEST8, the brainchild of Sandy Evans and Tony Gorman, extends their search for new colours in improvisation and jazz. Kaleidoscope is the band’s debut recording.
Composer
Compositions by Greg White also appear on
Watt Ever
Electronic music drawn from twenty years of WATT concert presentations. Australia’s only organisation regularly staging audio-visual and electronic works, WATT gathers tape, computer and live-electronic pieces spanning that period, bringing several composers to CD for the first time.