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Release Date
23 May 1994
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Length
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The musical material of "Piercing Music" is derived from a multichannel sound installation realised in 1993. Some of the sounds are processed recordings of water, some are purely synthetic. "Piercing Music" also contains a sample of Wieland Samolak's "Steady State Music".
Most of the movement within the piece is stochastic. Curves were drawn using MAX table objects to generate distributions and determine the chance incident of specific events within given periods of time.
Equipment used: Ensoniq ASR-10, Yamaha TG 77, Roland Juno-6, Alesis Quadraverb, Opcode/IRCAM Max 2.0 running on a Macintosh Plus, all mixed with a Roland M-160 straight to DAT. For the re-release 2003 it was left as is without any additional mastering.
The original recording of the installation from 1993 served as background music for a piercing performance and this is where the title had its origin.
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