Surfaces, Layers, Spaces - Towards a Continuum of Sound

video upload by La Synthèse Humaine

Also see Jaap Vink and Recursive Sound, and additional episodes here.

"I embarked on the electro-acoustic project Infra in the autumn of
1978, and completed it in the summer of 1979, working with
occasional interruptions at the Institute of Sonology at Utrecht University.

In contrast to earlier work partly aimed at providing a constantly
new view of a field of acoustical events which was as homogenous as possible, my main idea here was to assemble as wide
a range as possible of electro-acoustical sounds under the
aspect of cybernetic regulation, thus generating a continuum
integrating certain timbre characteristics of instrumental, vocal
and electronic categories, even previously unexplored ones.
One of my premisses was to reveal the oscillation curves of a
material in certain resonance ranges, using random-controlled
processes. The sonorous profile was extended step by step into
allophonic sound phenomena possessing the property of
merging with one another.

This music can be termed 'abstract'. Perhaps concepts such as
surfaces, layers, spaces, constellations, transitions and
reflections will help the listener to understand it.

Roland Kayn, 1979

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00:00 Jaap Vink and Roland Kayn, Utrecht, 1977-1978
01:22 Makro
02:32 Infra
05:27 Patreon Pitch
05:42 Building our Grand Cybernetic System
07:13 The Recursive Ring Delay Network
10:02 The Concrete Cybernetic Mixer
12:58 An Acoustic Kickstart
14:33 Surfaces, Layers, Spaces"