Album Notes

Course of the Symptom finds its origins in a set of discarded piano variations, bracketed within a larger frame of a discarded will towards academic music altogether. Occasionally one can hear lo-fi fragments of the original surface, but all of the noise elements were generated from a synthesized then distorted version of the piano part as well. (Not that this creates any real cohesion or unity. On the contrary, if anything, the music begins to leave itself—the synthesized versions a first step outside of a pre-given sound world, generated from the only means I had at my disposal.) The palate is minimal; a lo-fi recording of the original variations, synthesized and distorted renderings of phrases from the score, an eq and a wave editor. From time to time some textures are layered.

Prior to making this recording I was living in Tokyo, fulfilling, I suppose, an isolationist dream. I remember one day walking for about an hour towards a large hill I saw in the distance (in the industrial sector of Kawasaki). It ended up being a cloud. That about summarizes the experience. At the very least I cleansed my ears of conservatory babble (and babbitt) and upon return immediately generated this sorbet of sorts…