62 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - It Is a Microphone

In a vague tangential way, this composition began in consideration of the beautiful aural strategies of the great French experimental composer Eliane Radigue.
We begin in everyday life on temple grounds in Kyoto, 2014 -
distinctive sounds of Japanese birds and people chatting.
from somewhere
that is nowhere
drifting low liquid tones and
thin high threads
like notes of a glass harmonica
tease for attention
a passenger jet doppler shifts
crossing the sky
electromagnetic frequencies gathered
with a special microphone
that hears and transfers silent emanations…
here, from an art school printing machine
pulses of prepared piano
drop a name
full of ideas
into mind
insect-like voices of electronic synthesis
call from the digital undertow
broken bass rumbles fold in
a drooping rhythm
a distant machine turns
art students consider
their morning creations
while
algorithms wrestle recordings
slow-stretch, speed-press
stochastic stutter stitches time
built from a simple recording
of a simple kinetic sculpture
spinning
stochastic stutter stitches time
built from a simple recording
of drawing circles
one after another after another after another
in conclusion
settling
on the there and then
of a suburban banal
a day like many others
buildings being built
or being torn down
vehicles
urban birds
wind in the trees…
over time
out of time
falling into time