HOLOGRAMS

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Panel 2

Panel 3

Panel 4

Album Description
HOLOGRAMS is a work for saxophone and electronics in modular format. The piece is expressed through handpainted graphic scores which are interpreted by the live artists alongside chance-based electronics particular to each movement. While there are four paper paintings on canvas panels corresponding to four sonic movements, each panel is a standalone piece in it’s own right.

HOLOGRAM was originally designed for The Cube at Virginia Tech using a direct address method for spatial audio. It still has teeth in the stereo studio version and the intimacy of the studio allows the recording to incorporate miking of the saxophone mouthpiece which adds another very human animation to the piece. HOLOGRAM was premiered in April 2025.

As a practice Elizabeth does not like to assign specific meaning to works that would lead the listeners ear, but rather express overarching themes that were central to the artistic process. In HOLOGRAM, Elizabeth was influenced by metaphysical studies and CIA documents outlining the HemiSync Gateway Process… an original quote she shares with performers in the score to consider as they interpret the works is – “consider that when you touch anything, your atoms merge with that object… we are holograms.”

Links
Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/artist/1g2cfV552wncK9akv4Zzjq
Bandcamp – https://elizabethabaker.bandcamp.com/album/holograms 

Album Creditis
Performance: Kyle Hutchins (Bass Saxophone) & The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker (Electronics)
Composition: The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker
Recording: Artem Bank
Mixing: The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker
Mastering: Melissa Harris Chambers

Score