Last month I posted a mock-up of movement i of what I hope will be a four-movement work (using the same strange instrumentation), crossing the line. The idea is that in the installation the four movements are played back in a random order, for random lengths of time, perhaps even overlapping, so that no two listeners get the same experience.

crossing the line movt. ii waterphone solo

MOD call this the “procedural player”, which I can give instructions like “play one track for 30 to 120 seconds, then crossfade to another track randomly, then repeat” or, if they’ve got a sensor, respond by changing the sounds to e.g. someone’s presence in the room. Pretty cool stuff.

The above track is a mock-up using the same sample set that I made for movement i. What I have in my head is much more pretty and subtle, using the engineering wheels on the vessel, but this is good enough to give MOD some placeholders as they trial out some key spaces to see if the installations will work.