Artist's Statement

Nathaniel Haering is enraptured by the sharp juxtaposition of extreme virtuosity and genuine nuanced vulnerability, and uses live electronics to expand and enhance the engaging confluence and complex discourse of these ideals. He believes that both electronic and purely acoustic composition and mastery are essential and heavily inform and advance one another. Nathaniel is deeply interested in the use of live electronics to expand the artistic capabilities of traditional instruments and augment their timbral horizons while enriching their expressive and improvisational possibilities. This perspective is also highly influential and represented in the gestural power, analysis based pitch content, and true respect for the careful development and control of idiomatic and idiosyncratic extended techniques as a driving foundation of his purely acoustic work. The use of non-diachronic/biological time as well as stochastic/algorithmic compositional processes in tandem with a series of time-based attack points generated by controlling the probability of attack onsets through varying exponential and logarithmic curves helps structure most of his work as part of an ever growing fascination with perspectives of manipulations of perceptions of time.