This sound recording is an interpretation of an extract from the short story 'Him' by Bock the Robber. The extract is as follows: "I haven’t seen him yet, but sometimes I have two shadows.  I feel him moving around downstairs among the draped furniture and the cardboard boxes, and sometimes I imagine him easing back a curtain to leer at people in the street.  Perhaps he’s watching me now through some crack in this room, some weakness in the one place where he hasn’t been yet with his dry whispers.  Who can tell?  I can’t be sure of anything."

Saw Tooth is the piece of music I created as part of the Midi & Computer Programming end term assignment. It was created using a combination of Logic Pro and Max MSP. Several instruments were created in Max that could be played via external midi tracks in Logic.

Saw Tooth

This piece of music was created in jMusic. It was an exercise in getting to know Java. After I added some of the notes from Nightswimming by REM, I added several modifications to loop the sample over and over as well as manipulating settings like the volume and pan. The result was then saved as a midi file which can be manipulated further in Logic Pro.

Nightswimming

Performance as part of a Syntjuntan workshop.

Patrick Cusack