Intentional Listening with Clementine Hartman: An Guided Listening to Storm Studies: An Interative Practice of Electro-acoustic Emulation

STORM III [2026] — upright bass, vocals & live electronics
This piece is a textural exploration of grief. Using an instrument created by mapping prepared piano soundscapes into a graphic score, the performer takes a unique path through the “storm” with each performance, guiding the gestures of the piece accordingly on bass. Dedicated to Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman.

STORM II [2025] –– interactive graphic score, prepared piano recordings
Using transcriptions of storms recorded over the course of a year, I explore my relationship to water and storms as a New-Orleanian through the medium of prepared piano. All of the sounds featured were created using extended techniques on the inside of a grand piano which were then programmed into a graphic score. After exhausting the possibilities offered by traditional music notation, I have transitioned my practice to an interactive form of density-based sonic notation which literalizes the notion of “musical pointillism,” giving the listener the ability to reveal their own path through the divine rhythmic components which too often remain buried in the sublime chaos of torrential downpour.
Select piano tracks performed by Karen Shiraishi

Intentional Listening is an annual springtime monthly series that invites you to experience listening in a way that moves beyond the daily cacophony to hear our world with curiosity and intention. This spring's series focuses and the sounds of our natural and built environment.