Plancklength Artist Collective

Founded by Jeff Anderson, Blake DeGraw and Chloe Wicks, the primary focus of Plancklength is to explore aural phenomena in unconventional themes of music composition using spatialization techniques, chance operations, polytonal techniques, created instruments and unique collaborative improvisation with other artists. Areas of demonstration have included binaural wave frequencies, 14-tone music, surround sound noise manipulation, wave degeneration techniques, extreme tempi music and participatory installations.

Plancklength was selected by Harvestworks in New York for 42”18” to be included in 60X60, a 60-minute playlist of various artists producing 5.1 surround sound compositions lasting only 60 seconds each. This led to a public listening party at Jack Straw Productions in 2014.

Also written in 2013, How Time Passes: From Micro to Macro is the full sequence of a microtonal, ambient sound art concept that was inspired by an article written by Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1957 of the same name. It contains arpeggios of chords that contrast each other via changing tempo movements over the course of an hour. It is meant to be heard in surround sound, manipulating a spacial context where rhythmic intervals fade into a single tone.

La Voix des airs was an audio installation that utilized the feedback loop between speaker and microphone as a mechanism for creating a room-sized participatory musical instrument. The twelve sound-producing modules could be moved to sway over a central segment connected to the gallery floor, allowing for the possibility of musical intervals of various frequencies.

La voix des airs - SOIL Gallery Seattle

Exploratory Compositions / Recordings

Beginning in 2007 with an iPod Shuffle music/DJ performance event at Cafe Racer in Seattle, Jeff has been steadily churning out sound design concepts that include chance operations or the inclusion of samples, collage and other-worldly sonic textures, often through a process of exploiting heavy digital manipulation and reinvention.

Independent music label The state51 Conspiracy in the UK has more recently supported the release of Saɪ’dɪəriəl_Plains, a sprawling 30-minute soundscape track written over several years. The piece was inspired by the growing threat of climate change. More sound works can be explored here.