My main composition and production project for the next few months is a substantial "Rhapsody" inspired by repeatedly reading Nova Express by William Burroughs. This is the first one of several related pieces of music towards it which I am giving away online, like I do with most of my music. For the final piece, I'll try to come up with something better.

There is also going to be a Net Label "EP" release of perhaps six related miniatures.

I am composing and producing this entirely using my "home made" granular synthesis tools (with the help of MaxMSP). Doing granular synthesis means extracting tiny bits of sound from a recording or a stream, up to thousands every second, even, and re-arranging them while modifying them in a number of ways, creating grain clouds. This seems to reflect the "cut-up" method (used for writing the book) nicely.

The source material for the grain clouds are my Cork City Gamelan samples: sounds made with ordinary everyday "things" which can be found around most cities. I also used a recording of Phil Spector reading from Nova Express - for THIS piece only, it won't feature in the finished work.

enjoy!

Subliminal Entrainment (inspired by repeated readings of Nova Express)

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musician as a hobbyist, IT developer for a living.