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The following music was composed using various software tools under various circumstances. Some pieces were written for specific events while others were purely "art for art's sake".

Music Composed with The Transformation Engine

My work on the software development of the Transformation Engine has been the reason for creating a lot of music. Here is a selection:

Algorithmic Animal Jive

3:50

Alyssa's Trading Fours

4:51

Ave Maris Stella for Orchestra

4:31

Harmonices Vitae

Harmonices Vitae ("Harmony of Life") is software that creates music based on the astrological events of an individual's life. It drives the Transformation Engine with data calculated by means of traditional astrological predictors at the rate of one minute per year . This piece represents 10 years in the life of saxophone virtusoso David Mott, who plays an improvised solo along with it.

Life Music of David Mott

10:00

Music of CRASH

This piece is a live multi-media extravaganza developed as a collaboration with visual artist Henry Jesionka and choreographer Monique Giard, based on the novel by J.G. Ballard (later made into a film by David Cronenberg). It was presented at the Music Gallery, Toronto, in spring, 1989. The complete show was about 40 minutes long. Here are the opening and closing numbers:

The Crash

3:35

Haemorhage

4:52

Tesla: The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century

This music was written for a multi-media performance at the Ars Electronica Festival. Austria, in 1992. Due to logisitical problems the production was never mounted.

Overture

4:55
Tesla's Dream 6:54

Arrival in New York

1:43
Magnetic Ragtime 3:43
Motor Phase Music- History of Electricity 4:03
The Showman Executes an Elephant 7:34
Might Dynamo 1:12
To the West: Colorado Springs 3:54
Thunderstorm 10:31
Mountaintop Transfiguration 9:00
The Fall of Wardenclyffe 5:30

Fractal Music

Back in the 80's I did a lot of investigation into musical applications of fractal geometry.
Heatnoise
On Growth and Form
Fractal Recursion
The Road to Chaos
Strange Attractions

Commercial Music

A few film scores and TV jingles:
Sonics Preshow
Aquanaut Trailer
Quaker State Motor Oil
Experimental Film

I have created soundtracks for many experimental films over the years. Here is some sound design work I did for an animated film by my colleague at Sheridan, James Sayers.
Quietus