Müllmusik

From the liner notes: Müllmusik (literally "garbage music") is derived from discarded and reused data. Materials such as audio and images from news and other websites ("Media Bites", "The Drab Debate The Dreary"), corporate logos ("A Joke On Copyright"), the components of various operating systems and programming languages ("Krispy Kernels"), and donations from composers and soundartists of unused material ("A Graveyard Of Unwanted Sound") were all converted and recycled as sound. Processing methods specific to the original data types were reinterpreted as ways of processing audio. For instance, in "Photo Shopped Music" sound was converted to image, processed using imaging software and then converted back to sound. Similarly, image files were manipulated before conversion in order to produce sonic variants. The process of conversion was not a conscious mapping of parameter to parameter (i.e. image position to pitch, etc.). Instead, I accepted the data raw, as a rough material in which to mine for sound beautiful, ugly and inconclusive. Although the resulting sound may be arbitrary in the sense of having no obvious connection with the original meaning of the data, in performance the piece plays at revealing the hidden sources of its material. This "secret" content makes itself known at different moments in the pieces.