Update: the complete piece of music is now finished:
https://soundcloud.com/corkcitygamelan/pay-back-your-stolen-colours-1

My second sampler for a more substantial composition based on notions and ideas which came to me while reading Nova Express off and on for some decades.

I am making the piece entirely from sounds built by re-arranging and manipulating small fragments ("grains") of voice recordings of some of the text of the book. This is called Granular Synthesis.

I am extending the technique of Granular Synthesis by using the smallest grains as complex wave shapes in wave tables. I call them "Grainwaves", and I can use them to make beats, drones and musical motifs. In isolation, these very short grains can only be perceived as clicks.

the text:
Copyright © 1964 by William S. Burroughws
Copyright renewed © 1992 by William S. Burroughws
used by permission

my first sampler for this project is here:
https://soundcloud.com/corkcitygamelan/give-us-a-little-more-time-nova-express-project-teaser-trailer

enjoy!

Don't Tell Them What We Are Doing (2nd Nova Express project "trailer")

Cork City Gamelan