Steady State Music

Originally released in 1993 on CD. " When I was a teenager I used to sit on an empty field listening for hours to the sounds of distant cars, railroads, helicopters, and other motorized objects. These sounds, which are very rough and noisy when they are near, attracted me from the distance because they had merged and diffused into a continuum when they reached my ears. By this experience it came to my mind that it is more satisfying for me to listen to continuous changes within one sound than to the combinations of discreet sonic events usually found in music. Remembering that a few years ago I began to search for possibilites to create continuous sonic situations with controlled dramatic development that cannot be expressed in traditional terms of melody, harmony, and sound color. The five pieces collected on this compact disc are my first results." W.S. The ID3 tags contain a disclaimer: "This track is only available directly from www.monolake.de. It is not allowed to sell this track, to copy it to p2p servers and to re-distribute this track in any way. Visit http://www.monolake.de/ssm.html for more info."