Inspired by Karlheinz Stockhausen early experiments creating a new musical language with electronic music. This album creates an alien world using with pure sine wave tones using only frequencies derived from prime numbers. Listeners are encouraged to move through the sonic spaces and engage in the constantly shifting beats and timbres that are produced from the interplay of different prime numbers.
Tracks
“Asymmetric spinning tops, always turning, always wobbling, like cams turning, piston shafts moving, tugboats on the river passing in the night fog.”
Memories of the River Humber rekindled
“Prime numbers are they the voice of the devil itself, an infrasonic of such depths as to be inaudible to human ear. Only by making facsimile can the intervallic relationships between the frequencies become discernible. Each octave copied more is revealed and the human mind can make sense of this dreadful acoustic onslaught. Can it be the sound of war drums of the Mongol hordes, the Walls of Jericho tumbling down or the screams of ten thousand solders with swords in hand, let your imagination indulge in the sound of terror. You cannot stare into the face of the devil, only see the glimpse of a reflection in this cacophony.”
ACOUSTIC SPACES USING PRIME NUMBERS – “THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL”
“Creating a series using the power of two to create natural harmonics from this fundamental in this series tones have then been tempered to their nearest prime number thereby creating a slight imperfection. As with the modern twelve chromatic notes became tempered over time. The development of piano keyboard required this adjustment to play in all key combinations.”
Homage to Das wohltemperierte Klavier by Johann Sebastian Bach
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