...is a duo combining
PENG, a computer-controlled synthesizer system developed for the Amiga by
Harry Castle,
with the acoustic percussion of Damon Short.
(Long
technical description:) The vibraphone provides input to Peng both
in real-time and as pre-recorded melodic/rhythmic fragments. These
fragments are parsed and recombined to serve as raw compositional
material. This material, in storage, can be reproduced verbatim, and is
also available for real-time manipulation. In performance, the duo
interacts with these elements, responding, influencing, and adding to
them, bringing about still further electronic transformations. It is
through this regenerative process that a given realization of each
composition is sculpted.
While there is a
compositional framework for each piece, no two performances are ever the
same. Both members of the duo have ongoing control over the development of
each piece, and the components of the process.
The cassette
contains a series of live and studio improvisations by the duo, done in
Chicago and Dekalb IL in 1994 and 1995.