Roy Werner is a Brooklyn based composer focusing on sample oriented composition through custom software written in Max/MSP. Often under the moniker G.S. Sultan, his work intends to dissect sources’ embedded structures & information, processing audio through a network of generative and/or manipulative algorithms in order to shave off layers of ubiquity. The resulting pieces have been described as ‘chaotic, tongue-in-cheek deconstructions of pop banality’ and ‘fragile mosaics of digital pointillism’. Classically trained on piano and a graduate of Mathematics/New-Media Studies at UC Davis, Werner is most interested in the intersection of musicianship and aleatoricism; exploring grey-areas in which performer & algorithm both express a capacity for compositional decision-making. To this end, he has traveled throughout the US and Europe for live performance and has worked with multiple imprints to release recorded work, hoping to catalog some infrequent instances of musician and computer tactically in-sync.
