Iterative Synaesthetic Composing with Multimedia signals

ion, to be conceptually interesting and also sensual, to balance the Apollonian and the Dionysian. Whether I succeeded in these artistic aims it is hard for me to say and in truth it is difficult to evaluate one's own work. Certainly though, in the course of this project I challenged my own conception of the trumpet and succeeded in finding new ways to broaden my practice using extended trumpet techniques, trumpet preparations and laptop electronics while also connecting with my own history with the instrument: a learning based in jazz, rooted in melodic expression and a mode of improvising coming from, to use George Lewis's term, an "Afrological" (2004) paradigm. In this way most of all I feel satisfied with Allotrope: it brings together, somehow, my musical history with my story and my sense of now. I am engaging with contemporary conceptions of the instrument, with ideas about what jazz can be, with my culture as I