Areal
in series: Areale
2020
eorg or org / fixed audio (8ch)
00:30:00
2020-11-24
Insight Sounds (Online)
Dialoge Festival, Salzburg
eorg: Alexander Bauer
Areal is a piece for electronic organ and 8-channel electronics. The electronics exclusively use Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis (DSS), developed by Iannis Xenakis in the 1990s. This algorithm generates a variety of musical sounds by directly generating waveforms with different probability fluctuations.
The organ improvisation of the piece uses the same fundamental pitches that underlie the electronics. This creates sound mixtures that allow the two sound levels to almost merge. In this way, the organ becomes a moving sound object that both stands out from the sound surface of the electronics and sinks into it in the course of the piece.