Eno, Lemon Jelly, sigur ros, bang on a can, David Toop, Tim Story, Cluster, Roger Eno, Harold Budd, Wim Mertens, Biosphere, Bruce Stark, The Orb, Atom Heart, Susumu Yokota, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Sounds Like
Eno, Lemon Jelly, sigur ros, bang on a can, David Toop, Tim Story, Cluster, Roger Eno, Harold Budd, Wim Mertens, Biosphere, Bruce Stark, The Orb, Atom Heart, Susumu Yokota, Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Safe Harbour cd grew from larger projects in both generative and process music. The three pieces on the cd are reworkings of two longer pieces, the 1st and 3rd pieces (sometimes ... (mixed pianos) and sometimes ... ) both come from an installation work that featured in the Exeter Fringe Festival in 2002 and the second piece barcode is a rearrangement of a thirty minute work originally for six keyboards.
Elements of the composition have been determined by a numerical row that was created from measurements taken from a barcode; this numerical series was then used to generate a variety of cells made up of either notes or rests. The systems and ideas that are employed can be described as fuzzy, coming from fuzzy thinking and fuzzy logic. Rather than using a black and white process which is set up and proceeds until its conclusion a (grey) element of chance is inserted into this process; the piece does not continue on a linear journey but makes a slight detour.
In barcode this sense of disruption, or randomness, becomes the major element. The addition of the steady pulse provides the combination of the constant and the random, or the linear and the multiple; a linear musical section (the piano pulse) is overlaid with random (multiple) elements that have been triggered by the barcode measurements. This combination provides an element of unpredictability whilst allowing the work to flow smoothly from start to finish.
These recordings combine both electronic and live performance - the bass on sometimes ... is played by Dave Sanderson (known locally (and nationally) as Mr Food through Steve Wrights Radio One afternoon show) whose father 'introduces' the piece!
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