Avoidance Strategies
Robin Parmar
The music on Avoidance Strategies was generated entirely from feedback loops within a custom software system. Each evolving sonic ecosystem was played live as an improvisation between man and machine. The resulting complexity belies the fact that no samples, synthesisers, overdubs, editing or post-production was applied. Fans of noise, drone and ambient musics will all find something here to enjoy.
This CD is designed to accompany the book Tragedy of The Sun And Stars, though they may certainly be enjoyed separately.
This is a CD-R edition in wrap-around colour cover, limited to 100 copies. The first 50 copies are signed and numbered.
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PRICE: 8 Euro
CODE: 2011C01
WEIGHT: 75g
Listen
Hear the full album track "Bone-Seeker".
Hear the full album track "The Trees, Illuminated".
Bonus
Here is a bonus selection to hear and download. "The Department Of Fallout" is not available on the album but is our special gift to you.
Related Works
"West of the Solar Spectrum" was recorded live at Just Listening 2011, a concert organised by the National Sculpture Factory. An edit of this track may be found on the compilation CD available from Farpoint Recordings.
Background
The "no input mixing desk" is a soundboard with outputs wired to inputs, thus creating a feedback loop. The No Input Software Environment (NISE) brings this process inside the computer, where virtual circuits provide the only sonic material. Resonant filters create chaotic attractors, dynamic compression boosts the noise floor, frequency equalisation tailors timbre and delay lines disperse frequency concentrations over time. As this emergent system evolves, tiny changes to the control parameters produce divergent results. This cybernetic system challenges the naive belief in the digital domain as a site of perfect representation and replication.