Up to the Surface
My album Up to the Surface is out now on New Focus Records. Check out the video for the single Someplace Sacred & Submerged, and then head over to Bandcamp for the full album.
All sounds created, edited, and mixed by Jenny Beck.
Video by Evan Monroe Chapman & Kevin Eikenberg of Four/Ten Media.
Produced by Pascal Le Boeuf with additional mixing and mastering by David Darlington.
Album art created by Helena Mutak & Jenny Beck.
Album design by Traci Larson-Katz.
Go In Secret
Created for the New York–based antiphonal chamber metal band Real Loud.
“Mysterious harmonics, an enveloping windscape sound, and a pad of drones evolve in the work’s opening minutes. Slowly ascending lines played with a slide surface in the guitars while the drummers play foreboding fragments on the toms. Suddenly, massive chords splash across the mix while unsettling found sounds are heard close and upfront. Disembodied voices, performed by Beck herself, spin a distorted, chantlike melody. Delicate, unpitched crackling sounds end the work, a stark close for an album largely devoted to a maximalist soundscape. The inclusion of Beck’s piece in this program really broadens the offerings with its textural and quasi-theatrical sophistication.” - Dan Lippel
a “dock of ghost ships” - San Francisco Classical Voice
“revels in more ambient realms.” - New York Times
By the Time We Look for It
By the Time We Look for It was written for the So Percussion Summer Institute. Percussionist and video artist Al Cerulo later created this video featuring performances by him and fellow Mantra Percussion percussionist Joe Bergen. The video “explores the relationship between color, pitch and speed. Color is observed though wavelengths, each color occurring at a different length. For this realization we used the colors red, blue, and purple with red having the longest wavelength and purple having the shortest. The relationship to video speed and pitch was kept consistent throughout the video meaning for the red table, the pitches of the objects are the lowest and the video was filmed at the longest interval. The blue table pitches and video speed is a bit faster, and the purple table uses the highest pitches and quickest video speed.”
A New Age for New Age, Vol. 3
A compilation series created by Clara Warnaar that questions and re-imagines the New Age genre. My contribution to this project brings together analogue synthesis and digital audio manipulation to create an immersive and evocative soundscape.
Something Happens In Between
Live music for dance created with found sounds and digital audio.
Recent Music
Selected live performances featuring Isabelle O’Connell, Latitude 49, Alarm Will Sound, Modern Medieval, Bearthoven, and Eighth Blackbird.
My ongoing experiments in ambient sound spaces can also be found here.