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"In retrospect, all my music has owed some debt to Terry Riley, even before I knew who he was. Of all the 'minimalists' his approach to stasis through repetition most resonated with me.
But where he used tape loops and then rules-based composition to create incomprehensible detail within stasis, I use chaos theory and numerical musical systems towards the same end. In tribute to Terry I've built a pair of chaotic sequencers.
Their parameters form a high-dimensional space, and the set of all musically interesting parameters form a (subjective) fractal inside this space.
My piece Outdoor Museum Of Fractals will be a very slow tour of some landmarks in this fractal, with tabla player Camilo Tirado as co-pilot: a slow tilt of the head to inspect the arpeggio from a slightly different perspective, with thanks offered up to the man who gave musicians after him permission to move so slowly."
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