This is the third and final volume of the Pompa Funebris, an indeterminate requiem written in 2006. This volume brings together the threads from the first two, with rearrangements of the material used as elements in volume one combined with a radical reworking of the data matrix from volume two. The final thread is a kind of farewell to "fake instruments", for fake piano and fake bass guitar. The blending together was something akin to the "Open Source Audio" model of the Malhaus project (see separate collection). From here on, I'll only be using sine waves to make music, so this now finished 'requiem' is for the last vestige of normality; no more will there be any discernable link to conventional music-making. New methods will arise from pattern-seeking and aural modelling.
Unlike the earlier volumes, volume three does not have publishable "workings" data. It could easily have taken a similar form to the Malhaus Construction Kit, but it's better in this context for it to take a more definitive form.
The next piece taking a "construction kit" approach to Open Source Audio will be entirely based on sine waves. There may be a brief 'lull' now until round about Christmas time whilst the seriousness of the sea-change inaugurated by "Carmen of the Spheres" takes hold.
Assuming I'm still alive in the new year, a new body of work will take shape which is entirely pure, clear and comprehensible. Complexity will be formal rather than textural from now on (in most cases).
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