Douglas Quin
Douglas Quin is a sound recordist and composer whose works Oropendola (1994) and Forests: A Book of Hours (1999) blend acoustic and electronic musical improvisation with “unadulterated and unedited field recordings, processed soundscapes, electroacoustic instruments, human voice and hybridized sounds that comprise both living voices and electronically generated timbres. His Polar Suite (2011), meanwhile, employs a wireless sensor bow called the ‘K-Bow’ to enable the Kronos Quartet to ‘play’ sounds captured by Quin at the North and South Poles, articulating them through their string instruments. Quin reflects that the process of “negotiat[ing] the technology and relationship to natural sound, and soundscape into music…allows me and the people I’m working with – like Kronos – to understand…the connective tissue that binds us all together as living creatures and beings on this planet.”