【Piercing Music】 淨念相繼　5分32秒

・Imbalance Computer Music | ICM 002 (1994 / 2005)

・CD album | CD album re-release

The musical material of Piercing Music is derived from a multichannel sound installation I realised in 1993. Some of the sounds are processed recordings of water, some are purely synthetic. Piercing Music also contains a sample of Wieland Samolaks fantastic CD Steady State Music, used by kind permission.

Most of the movement within the piece is stochastic. I drew curves using MAX table objects to generate distributions and determine the chance incident of specific events within given periods of time.

Equipment used: Ensoniq ASR-10, Yamaha TG 77, Roland Juno-6, Alesis Quadraverb, Opcode/IRCAM Max 2.0 running on a Macintosh Plus, all mixed with a Roland M-160 straight to DAT. For the re-release 2003 I deicded to leave it as it is without any additional mastering.

The original recording of the installation from 1993 served as background music for a piercing performance and this is where the title had its origin.

Reference: http://www.monolake.de/releases/icm-02.html