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HORGAN HOUSE

The title Horgan House refers to the location at which I recorded forty-five minutes worth of environmental sounds during an early morning in springtime. I have taken the field recording and processed it in a program that plays back only isolated bandwidths of the sound file depending upon the amplitude of the recorded sounds.

The number of active bandwidths varies throughout the piece as does the degree of filtering applied to each one. In some cases, I have used the information from a bandwidth to modulate sine waves. Played back in the same space from which the sounds originated, the piece mimicks the rhythmic logic of the environment, bringing to the awareness of the listener sounds and structures that would otherwise remain unarticulated.

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