Out of that Dark Hall and Wander

Out of that Dark Hall and Wander is the result of work conducted over several years to compose music directly from real-world sounds using a process I call spectral deconstruction. (You can read more about the software I’ve created for this purpose and how the collaboration works elsewhere on this website.)

This work represents significant enhancements over previous collaborations between myself and the software. Most notably, improvements in the interpretation of musical events in their near-term context, clarity of orchestration, and the development of large-scale form.

I’ll write about these advances in more technical detail at a later date, but suffice it to say that Out of that Dark Hall and Wander expresses a cohesive form (in nine sections), distinct motivic relationships that move between timbral families, and orchestrational elements that establish clear roles and maintain their characteristic identity throughout.

The aim of this production was simple; present a clean representation of the music. Whenever “real” sounds were used, every attempt was made to keep them in the context of their natural environment, warts and all.