Date: 1992
Co-composed with Ray Guillette.
Based on Nick Didkovsky’s “nerve events” from the CD Beta 14 ok.
Instrumentation: Tape. Software used: HMSL,
Tom Erbe’s SoundHack, TurboSynth, Eric Smith’s Mutator. HMSL composed and “realized”
the piece via MIDI on some commercial samplers and DSPs.
Sounds: 36 samples: 12 original nerve
events, the “chromatic scale”; 12 transformations each by Ray and I.
Elements: Duration, selection of samples
from a complex “virtual keyboard,” spatial location (a 2-dimensional grid of 16
locations), pitch inflection, loudness.
Comments: Excerpted on Cuneiform CD, Transforms: The Nerve Events Project.
Complete piece on Cold Blue CD.