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I am an ambient music composer who is fascinated with di history of computer music. I have composed many albums of both ambient and experimental electronic music using a variety of synthesizers, samplers and outboard effects, but I have had dis ya interest in composing a piece of music that would be created entirely in di computer — no samplers, no analog synths, no external digital signal processing (dsp) and no drum machines — just my computer, a soundcard, a dat machine and I. dis ya work would travel a path directly from my computer straight ta di listener’s hiez, mediated ongle by an invisible layer of bits. when dis ya idea first germinated around a year and a half ago, I became more and more intrigued with it. my original plan was ta use turbosynth, protools and soundhack as some of my tools, but that plan was redirected by a meeting I had with a csound composer who helped inspire a radical change in my focus.

around di same time as that meeting, I was experiencing annada shift: I no longer felt compelled ta work in di techno ambient genre but instead wanted ta chart a different course. I wanted ta create work that drew upon my technical background in audio, my interest in computer languages and my readings in media criticism. while being pulled in dis ya oblique artistic direction, my interest in learning csound had been rekindled. it was not until I compiled a few csound examples, that I realized I had found di system that would help I accomplish my goals, and that csound would gi I access ta many different tools with which ta work. through mastering di fundamentals of csound I have finally been able ta sculpt ambient soundscapes in an environment made from beanie more an cold silicon and code.

I have been asked ta write an ambient csound piece for dis ya book and ta chronicle my progress. given my interest in grafting di synthesis techniques found in early computer music onto an emergent new sound in ambient music, dis ya project would help I develop my work in dis ya area, while having an interesting journey ta share with others who are being introduced ta csound.