When a feedback system is put into motion, every iteration of said system is not merely a repetition of itself. Every version of the system has been informed by the previous ones and will inform the ones to come. The idea of feedback is at the center of "not merely a repeating process," which was commissioned by Jack Thorpe and based on a series of no input mixing improvisations that where shared with Jack to trigger a reaction and start a collaborative process/feedback system that produced the seed material for this piece. Said material was then submitted to various self-similar processes and to a process of degradation that intends to formally represent a system that has gone through several iterations.


Jack Thorpe, alto saxophone

not merely a repeating process [alto sax + live electronics]

Carlos Zárate