Godcycles (7:44) for 2 channels 1997
Program

Program Notes

This piece uses my spoken voice as the instrument. I sampled myself asking a four-word question, then cut it into its separate words. Each cut of the original sample became an instrument which required a certain note duration to sound the entire word. The piece begins with the first word at a very short duration, only revealing the beginning of the "ka", which expands until the whole word is revealed. By using this same technique for a second set of instruments, which is only the words of the phrase reversed, and overlapping the two sets of instruments, a myriad of voices appear. Toward the end of the piece, a magnificent example of serendipity occurs as the samples congeal in just the right way to produce two answers to my original (rhetorical) question.