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The system creating this piece is set up as a world of thirty simple repetitive players or agents, each with its own little job to do. For example one might have the task of increasing the loudness of the next note played in one of the eight voices. Similar agents would decrease loudness, change pitch (in 31 tone equal temperament), or actually cause a note to sound. Each agent waits a certain amount of time and then does its job again repeatedly. But all of these agents also have powerful side effects: each time one "goes off" it not only does its own special task, it also slightly changes the rate at which all the others repeat. The resulting system of interaction is much too complex to understand. As a performer I have controls which allow me to make very general changes in the statistical distribution of these rate changing influences, responding to the surprises the piece deals me.

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from ARTIFICIAL HORIZON (ART 1003, 1989), released October 15, 1989
Composer: Tim Perkis
Performer: Tim Perkis
Recorded at Mills College Concert Hall 4/14/89

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ARTIFACT RECORDINGS is a project of Ubu, Incorporated, an artist-run, non-profit organization supporting experimental and electronic music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our download and compact disk series is dedicated to representing a living experimental music tradition that continues to thrive in the cracks between the commercial, academic and classical music establishments. ... more

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