Head Office Transformation

Split cassette by Mark Fell / EVOL
(ALKU 75, 2010)

2 tracks. 60 minutes. Chrome grade cassette.
Limited edition available in black and white.

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Mark Fell, 'Head Off'
I was watching my daughter play on Guitar Hero with headphones, all I could hear was the clicking of the buttons as she played. She, on the other hand, was have a very different experience. I made a recording of the sound of the button pushing which lasted about 30 minutes. Following this I implemented a simple system to analyze the sound file and give me a list of all the timings of the button pushes. This was then used to trigger a simple kick drum sound and lush chord generated using 4 operator FM synthesis. For me the music made outside the headphones, the skeleton of the guitar hero performance was far more interesting that the illusion of skill and performance it offered to the player. A more interesting head space transformation.

EVOL, 'Ice Transformation'
Phase space is the collection of possible states of a dynamical system. A phase space can be finite (e.g. for the ideal coin toss, we have two states heads and tails), countably infinite (e.g. state variables are integers), or uncountably infinite (e.g. state variables are real numbers). Implicit in the notion is that a particular state in phase space specifies the system completely; it is all we need to know about the system to have complete knowledge of the immediate future (James D. Meiss).

The words "rave synthesis" scrambled 100 times:
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This piece explores different parameter/state configurations of a rave synthesis algorithmic system. For more on configuration spaces, see here.