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Telophase Telophase
The final piece from my Blood Music Suite based on Greg Bear's science fiction novel of the biotransmutation of our planet.
Meditation #5 - Absolution Meditation #5 - Absolution
Serene reflection. Ethereal dreaming. Luminous arcs of passage.
Salmandra Salmandra
Persian for "lives in fire." Ode to the magical salamander. Processed short wave and wind chimes.
Koorie Wind Koorie Wind
Wind chimes & radio waves. That main pattern played non-stop at roughly 6.2 megs on the shortwave. God on a didg. Makes you think twice about the Dreamtime.
Latent Destination Latent Destination
A sonic impression from the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky who, as a synaesthete, saw sound as color, associated tone with timbre, hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of sound.
DreamingToornaarsuk DreamingToornaarsuk
Inuit spirit that I always thought got a bum rap. Uploaded under the full moon. skin drum, AI katajjaq, synth
Quadrigemina Parts I & II Quadrigemina Parts I & II
This four part composition is a structured improvisation where the performer is provided with tape accompaniment and a 'score' of variables. Hein Pijnenburg - bass clarinet.
Quadrigemina Parts III & IV Quadrigemina Parts III & IV
The corpora quadrigemina located in the mid-brain are composed of two pairs of lobes which are visual and auditory reflex centers.
Blue Star Kachina Blue Star Kachina
An apocalyptic piece based on the Hopi prophecy of the last great war. It begins when the Saquasohuh Kachina, representing an as yet unseen blue star, dances in the plaza and will usher the survivors into the Fifth World where all are brothers.
Sound Houses Parts I & II Sound Houses Parts I & II
Inspired by Tamas Ungvary's L'aube des flammes, this is a feedback composition in four parts from a reference in Francis Bacon's visionary New Atlantis.
Sound Houses Parts III & IV Sound Houses Parts III & IV
We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation... we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds... we have also divers strange and artificial echoes..."
transcendent anomaly transcendent anomaly
"Anomaly appears only against the background provided by the paradigm" from Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In Search of Daedalus In Search of Daedalus
A hybrid of musique concrete. Imprisoned in a Labyrinth of his own design by the king he had built it for, Daedalus anticipated Da Vinci by designing wings and escaped airborne with his young son.
Reticulated Reticulated
Asymetrical piston rhythms dance across the dragging path of pulling lizard breath. The winds anguished moaning is the shredding of metal. Hornets dance the tensile strands.
First Days of May First Days of May
Spring from the insect perspective (as in the opening scenes of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet) in celebration of the 17 year cicada. Inspired in part by the short story of the same name by Claude Veillot.
Underworld Transit Underworld Transit
A journey through the lower spirit world, realm of power anima and entrance to the land of the dead. Shamans come here to be initiated, gain esoteric knowledge, battle adversaries and to perform healings. Orpheus could have used a shaman.
