A performance in three ten minute intervals, STOCHASTIC PATTERNS IN THREE SETS implements five hand-built (O.H. X-100) synthesizers to provide fifteen square wave oscillators producing a variety of frequencies covering the range of human audibility (20 Hz - 20 kHz), including liberal overlaps between the frequency ranges of each oscillator. These overlaps combined with the layering of pulses which repeat at different rates allow a diverse range of opportunities to explore rhythmic phenomena associated with frequency cancellation (i.e. beating) and phase.
  
During each set the oscillators are tuned in a configuration and basic mix determined by the performer’s taste during a mandatory period of preparation .The signals may be further mixed and equalized during the course of performance.

This work is solemnly dedicated to Arthur Manby and is to be debuted at the Coach House Gallery, Taos, NM, where a headless corpse believed to be his was discovered. His spectre is thought to haunt the building. It is the author of this work’s earnest desire to compel his, or whomever owned that body’s soul to eternal resolution through the law of fives and threes. 

Forest H. Graham