Recorded at home in Athens, GA, around 2003 or 2004.

Fig Lang

Like a Circle around the Sun

This is another track from an acoustic record I made in 2003 or 2004.

Column

What Does Your Shirt Say?

Forest Chorus

I don't know how else to describe this: I went inside Mary Lattimore's recording and I "played" it like an instrument.  Inside every sound, more sounds await.

Mary Lattimore - -Ferris Wheel, January - -INTREMIX

The music inside the music inside the music inside. Granular sampling. I use short loops, "intraloops," from a recording, manipulate the "playpoints," where the loops begin, and activate different playpoints by performing on a keyboard. The composition heard here is one take, edited down from an hour-long performance. Consider it ambient without bevelled edges. It is unbevelled-edgy.

INTREMIX 2 -- Park Jiha, The First Time I Sat across from You

This Intremix reaches through the surface of the sound of Nadia Sirota's expert viola performance of Nico Muhly's propulsively rhythmic composition. Audible here, then, is an analogy to the way the senses apprehend the world: We don't just see what is out there in some passive input sense; we can only see while remembering, while making sense of, while imbuing what we see with meaning. Here, the meaning accumulates as each interloop recombines the original composition into a new set of tight rhythmic figures, each one vying to mean what it means before it gets subducted back into the wash, each loop expressing one tightly focused increment of the original composition, each repetition driving forward in time while remaining static, fixated. Nothing happens here that doesn't happen casually and readily in the operations of the mind itself. Or casually and readily in the behavior of temporal aberrations, elicited by reaching into the sound inside the sound inside. This is the music music makes.

Nico Muhly By Nadia Sirota - -INTREMIX - -Etude 1A

Experiments, successful and otherwise. Also: SPLICEROCK! Or Intremixes. (Intending to connote "Entry" + Remix). Intraloops. Inside all recorded music is an infinite expanse of recombinative music. This is the music music makes. The sound inside the sound. 

Also: obliquely Appalachian instrumentals recorded in my apartment in Athens, GA around 2004. 

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