This work has no beginning, no end, and no linear form. Its form is radial, and repeats seamlessly. As a listener you are therefore experiencing your own piece, the beginning of which is selected by chance, the duration and end of which are selected by you.
The marriage of chance and human interaction not only collaborates to set the duration of the piece, it has also composed the piece. The chord sequence played by guitar and bass was created by a computer program, which in turn was created by the artist. Given a set of parameters, the program chose the key and dynamic for each section as well as the duration of every bar, and the chord the bar would contain. This accompaniment was then improvised upon by the artist.
There are three instruments being played in the work, two electric guitars and one electric bass. These instruments all require amplifiers when performed, and the sound source for a listener is therefore the amplifier rather than the instrument itself. One of the aims of this work is to explore the impersonal nature of amplified performance and assess how one feels when only the presence of the performer is removed.
Each section has a narrative and a logic that functions if it were to be repeated, or if it were to be proceeded by the next section. In this way, the piece is a loop of potential loops.
This circle represents the whole piece. Each coloured area is a different section, with the key of the section in the middle. If you click on 'chords' in the corner you will be able to see the duration (in beats) and chord of each bar, the arrows either side will take you to the next/ previous section. This has been generated randomly, there are many trillions of possible scores and the refresh button in the corner will allow you to generate a new one.
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