Wave Field

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""Wave Field" ends a period in which i was interested in writing music with note. It became evident that i wanted to work with sound, with modulations and fluctuations impossible to notate. This was a major shift to a different way of thinking, as i found notes to be conceptual abstraction, which are to be later served by sound. Around that time (1993) i got to see Nirvana in Lisbon and the supporting band was the Buzzcock. The venue's acoustics were so bad that all i could hear was an amorphous roar. While my attention drifted from this otherwise boring set, i began listening to that unarticulated stream of electric sound and found it extremely interesting and inspiring, a kind of liquid, abstract flux of rock sound. The room's resonance was literally liquefying this rock sound, in a way that plugged directly into my fascination for Alvin Lucier's piece I am Sitting in a Room, turning it into a kind of Rosetta stone, resonance being the common key. I wanted to consolidate these new ideas on distillation of rock and bring them down in a form of ambient music. Nirvana were great and actually sounded good, but when i got out, chatting with friends about the concert, i was already dreaming of Wave Field. .

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