protocol i (2006)

'protocol i' is an electronic sound piece created during my studies at the Institute of Sonology. It is the product of my research into ways to navigate and articulate the intersection between the automated process and the intuitive musical choice. The result was the design of a procedure that put an algorithmically generated value next to every other, defining the range of deviation of the first.

I.e. a formalised function to overrule, manually, its own outcome. Two type of permutations of the same piece were thus integrated; a ‘mechanical’ algorithmic one, indifferent to the artistic results of its instructions, and a musical interpretation of those same instructions. The numeric tables spit out by this procedure were applied to a very focussed set of sound materials and transformations. The result portrays a solid, slowly shifting sound cluster with a constant feed for intentional listening and accidental hearing.

-please use headphones-​