Incommensurable Loops

Incommensurable Loops is the resurrection of a small Flash application I wrote called 'infinite music' around 2007. That player - in the now defunct flash language - was my first foray into exploring how to present pieces on a website. Based on techniques pioneered by Brian Eno it worked by playing several loops of sound and letting them drift out of synchronization due to their differing lengths which are - as the title says - incommensurable, that is not likely to fall back into alignment for long periods. I've written much more about the project here

Halflife U-238

The loops of electric guitar that make up Halflife U-238 were recorded around 2003 for 'The Uranium EP' - the title came from an obsession with Jim Dodge's Stone Junction and the alchemist character who believes the root of all evil in the world is the transuranic elements. It also relates to an idea I had to base a piece on the half-life of elements, which never got off the starting blocks.

Kalimba from Berlin

A plain descriptive title - I bought a little kalimba in Berlin and recorded its notes to feed into the loop machine.

Scala Enigmatica

The sound source for scala enigmatica is long forgotten. Some sort of synth pad, made perhaps by feeding a sound into my primitive Casio sampling SK-5. This work explored the ambiguous harmony of the eponymous scale.

String Section Tuning Up

I recorded the strings tuning up at a concert of Handel's Messiah in 2007 on my Nokia phone, the first phone I'd had which had a 'voice recorder' function. Qualitatively, the recording is terrible (I can feel my friends for whom fidelity is everything wincing) but I was kind of taken with the crunchy, compressed, weird sound it produced.