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Composed between August of 2005 and December of 2005,
Multiverse, is a 37
minute algorithmically generated composition. It is comprised of
eight movements. Csound, Cmask, Mathematica and Excel were the primary
tools employed to accomplish a unique approach to algorithmic composition,
which is primarily based upon sample manipulation.
After hearing this work one listener stated: "It was like learning a
foreign language. However, if you make the investment to learn it, the
rewards are substantial. It took me places I have never been and had never
imagined even existed."
You can listen
to an excerpt from the CD here.
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The story behind Multiverse
While out for a morning walk, the idea of a piece on the subject of
"weaving horizontal
strands through vertical tubes" came to mind. By the time the walk was
finished lyrics, featured on the last page of the CDs booklet, had been
firmly established as well as a plan for using "tube" sounds with searing
strands running through them. Later that same day there was a posting on
the CEC (Canadian Electroacoustic Community) discussion list from composer
Bill Thompson. In it Bill wrote about a midnight walk in Aberdeen,
Scotland, the night before. As he was walking he heard "this angelic sound
being carried
by the wind". When he investigated it he found that it was the sound of
the North Sea wind blowing through the scaffolding tubes used at a
construction site on the beach; a new Port Authority building. He had
recorded the sounds and generously made them available to others on the
list. The "coincidence" was too suggestive to let it pass by. So with
Bill's permission the sound file was downloaded and work began on
Multiverse. When the project was mentioned to Sylvia Pengilly it was
immediately very visually suggestive to her and so inspired several
subsequent video works. The image on the front of this CD booklet is one
frame from one of the resulting videos. She and the composer are
collaborators on several related videos.
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