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Composed by JCself
Music that grew out of a few conditions.
JCself Strom
A JCself that keeps playing without pause, since 1 November 2026 and without end, with Peter Heeren’s gongs. Everyone hears the same at the same time. Even listening plays a part, and so does leaving. Everyone can take part: touch a field, give their name, change the settings. Whoever was here leaves a trace in the piece.
Audio examples
Twelve pieces made with Csound: three from sound grains (FOF), one from the sound space in which every tone computes its own path on the sequence z → z² + c, a swarm piece of four fields playing sixtyfold, a trio of flute, piano and gong – each fortyfold, with a listener zapping between the three swarms –, an ensemble of a thousand fields, a swarm of 48 fields whose deep, humming sound grows out of the piece’s own weighting landscape, a piece from the spectrum of a gong, filtered by the landscape of the piece, a trio that plays the small gong like an instrument, as if three fools had got hold of it, and last two pieces from the new sound “Mosaik” (Update 113), which cuts a recording into snippets and grains – here a recording of Peter Heeren’s voice: once the recording lies on the frequency axis of the piece and the melody reads it – forwards and backwards, nothing transposed –, once it becomes a cloud of grains – plus one piece for piano, by Peter Heeren.