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“How To Make Music Alone” was recorded in Guelph, Ontario on March 25, 2020.



These recordings contain the sounds of sampled instruments with minimal processing to provide space for the ambient noises in your listening environment. It is meant as an exercise in collaboration, and I hope that you will engage in this exercise by allowing these sounds to share your space, but not to fill it.



The music was composed using a number of probability based tools for the generation and sequencing of notes, patterns, and parameters.

The algorithms used to compose these pieces generate music without repetition infinitely. These songs were recorded while improvising alongside them in real time. They are an experiment in improvisation, accessibility, and collaboration using elements of musical theory, computer programming, expression, and control.



There are no physical instruments, and no physical space, but the sound is still there.



This album serves as a certificate of authenticity for the notes that exist within its binary data. It realizes them. It acknowledges their existence, and legitimizes them as something of value. Worth more than those that weren’t heard, or worse, were never listened to.



Were they music too?



Thanks for listening,



BS

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released March 30, 2020



Brian Schirk

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