PLSR, composed in Spring 2003, represents a complete work in fifty-nine seconds. Created specifically for a competition calling for works of one minute in duration, PLSR was itself conceived as a clock or timer for measuring that duration. Impulses scattered randomly throughout the stereo field begin clicking away at integer-relating intervals to a once-per-second master pulse. While the master pulse remains constant, the three other streams accelerate over the course of the piece, moving out of integral divisions to constantly changing rhythmic patterns, and finally ending once again on a unison.
Csound was used extensively in the conception and development of this work, although its temporal organization was largely completed in a multitrack software environment.
PLSR now appears on 60x60 a 2003 Capstone records recording featuring sixty one-minute electro-acoustic compositions by sixty different composers. (CPS-8744)
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