Epithets (2015) is a 12-channel, 44 minute electronic work commissioned by ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe composed for Tony Myatt & Oli Larkin's The Morning Line; a 53-channel hybrid sculpture / acousmatic space currently installed in front of the institution. The premiere was premiered as part of Insonic festival on the 24th of November & was then entered into the regular compositional circulation, enjoying nightly performances from the 26th on.
"'Epithets' was created specifically for the Morning Line. It is based around a generative, self-automating Hybrid Analogue-Digital Modular Synthesizer patch that applies principles of Werner Heisenberg's research on "Turbulent Flows" into a series of sub-dividable motor-rhythm arcs that freely wander across the internal soundfields of the sculpture. While structurally similar to early Minimalism, the piece incorporates gradual, almost subliminal shifts between modal & nonlinear tonalities that only become apparent over the piece's complete duration."
Press & Further Reading:
ZKM Concert Page (November 2015)
inSonic Program (November 2015)
Cycling 74 (June, 2011)
Meyer Sound (December, 2008)
Tony Myatt Faculty Page
