Chaz Underriner
News
Mimesis book under contract
I’m very pleased to share that my first book, The Audio Reality Effect: Mimesis, Music and Multimedia, has been accepted for publication by Routledge press. The book will be published in 2027-28.
Review/Interview in Aldora Britain Records
Flicker album
A foray into ambient, funk, blues, jazz, lo-fi and gospel with new compositions.
credits
releases June 12, 2026
Garrett Wingfield, saxophone
Tim Rosenberg, saxophone
Carlos Martinez, keyboard
Dan Walters, electric bass
Jarobi Watts, double bass
David Weatherspoon, drums
Chaz Underriner, composition, electric guitar, mixing
Jodi-Ann Taylor, Chelz Danielle, Yaffa St. Fleurose, voice
Jessica Speak, clarinet
Tammy Philips, flute
Aaron Witek, trumpet
Dylaney Sabino and Fabian Cardona, audio engineering
Daniel Walter Eaton, mastering
Recorded in Tinsley Hall at Stetson University, June 2024
Lines
For clarinet, soprano saxophone, electric guitar, video, and fixed electronics (2025). Written for Jessica Speak and Timothy Rosenberg, with affection and friendship.
Inside/Outside
Installation for two windows, blinds, curtains, a fan, two projectors, and 2.0 electronics
2023
Documentation from Faculty Exhibition at the Hand Art Center
Companion piece to For Persimmon.
We Keep Our Faces Always Toward the Sun
Audio for video installation in collaboration with Leah Sandler.
Leah’s notes on the piece:
We Keep Our Faces Always Toward the Sun
2024
Devised for Solstice 2024, and with consideration of new legislation in Florida preventing local governments from requiring basic heat protection for outdoor workers, this projection and sound piece is an elegy for protection from the sun. A cell phone video of the April 8th solar eclipse shot inside a DIY pinhole viewing device projected onto a circular screen constructed from hand-pulled paper with pulp made from Florida HB 433 (2024), dried in the Florida summer sun, hung by a single roofing nail, is accompanied by a minimal drone score resonant with the frequency of the sun’s vibrations by composer Chaz Underriner. This gesture is a contemplation of Floridian vulnerability and irreverence to the sun. (The human scale of time exists within the geological scale of time.)
Interaction of Color
For video, electronics, and sustained pitch instruments. Video and composition based on Josef Alber’s “Interaction of Color”. (2024)
Text Score:
Use any sound-making object that can make a long, sustained tone. Play long tones that harmonize with the tones in the tape, usually softly. Once you’ve started on a pitch, don’t change it while playing. Always tune with the tones in the tape to make an interesting interval. Listen more than you play. Take long pauses between each tone.
Context Collage: Vienna
Moving album
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For string trio, video, and fixed electronics. Commissioned by the Amorsima Trio: Mia Detwiler, Mike Capone, and Kourtney Newton. This commission was made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Mellon Foundation.