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Keith Fullerton Whitman - Generator 7b"...Three voltage streams from two LFOs to different modules...." What I get from this quote, taken from the press materials for KFW's "Generator," is that this music is made from electrically generated accidents and KFW's subsequent reactions. Listening to this intensely pretty music, it's hard not to wonder how many composers over the years have had both febrile and normal dreams about instruments playing themselves. Reminiscent in some way of Zachary Mason's (author of the excellent "The Lost Books of the Odyssey") recent remarks about wanting to write "the imagined literature of artificial intelligence, like a fictive translation of the stories machines tell themselves." KFW's work on "Generator" seems to be the musical equivalent--modular synths playing songs for their own private enjoyment.[Buy Generator]

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