circonium : imbalance discography

steady state music

When I was a teenager I used to sit on an empty
field listening for hours to the sounds of
distant cars, railroads, helicopters, and
other motorized objects. These sounds, which
are very rough and noisy when they are near,
attracted me from the distance because they
had merged and diffused into a continuum when
they reached my ears. By this experience it
came to my mind that it is more satisfying for
me to listen to continuous changes within one
sound than to the combinations of discreet
sonic events usually found in music.
Remembering that a few years ago I began to
search for possibilities to create continuous
sonic situations with controlled dramatic
development that cannot be expressed in
traditional terms of melody, harmony, and
sound colour. The five pieces collected on
this compact disc are my first results.

W. S.