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eenter more placidly, with <strong>the</strong> entrance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> carve effect now correlating to a reduction in instrumental pitches, while <strong>the</strong> swelling <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> wrapped brightness addition in <strong>the</strong> video mirrored by bowing shifts to sul tasto and back. Instruments<br />

Here, audio and video samples are examples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ‘Splice’ process, which makes quick cuts between disparate samples at moments <strong>of</strong> greatest spectral similarity. The durations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> splice samples shorten over <strong>the</strong> section, which functions as a transition from <strong>the</strong> electronic aural ambience <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> previous 9.<br />

into <strong>the</strong> more percussive nature <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> piece. This process is combined with a duo instrumental riff culled from <strong>the</strong> Vertex process and <strong>the</strong>n sections<br />

with its downward cycles slightly rhythmically <strong>of</strong>fset from one ano<strong>the</strong>r. A string chord swell punctuates <strong>the</strong> introduction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ‘carve’ effect and a zoom into <strong>the</strong> video material. 10. This section is a brief revisitation <strong>of</strong> material from section 4, with <strong>the</strong> looped,<br />

<strong>of</strong> a couple <strong>of</strong> distorted and degraded hits (along with distorted instrumental attacks). The kaleidoscope entrance here is mirrored temporally as a doubling, and <strong>the</strong>n a quadrupling, <strong>of</strong> note attacks. 11. The sixteenth note figures <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> previous section are a transition substitution<br />

<strong>the</strong> figuration here, which is a repetition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> section 7. The source score (from which an algorithmic process generated section 7) is <strong>the</strong>n to<br />

instrumentally in its original form, without electronics. Immediately upon its conclusion ano<strong>the</strong>r algorithmic process acts upon that source score material, a process that gradually interpolates pitch and rhythm data between <strong>the</strong> original and its fragmented reconstruction. This serves as a momentary<br />

presented<br />

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