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Release Date: 2005-03-30Label: Asphodel
Electronic Music 1999-2003Additional texts on CD (6 PDF documents included)
Origins of granular synthesis: the prototype study - Curtis Roads
Visualising Pictor alpha - Garry Kling
Interview with Curtis Roads - Brigitte Robindoré
The path to Half-life - Curtis Roads
Score of Half-life, part 1: Sonal Atoms realized by James Ingram
DVD contents
Nine selected pieces with visuals by Brian O'Reilly
Additional visualizations by Woon Seung Yeo and Garry Kling
Lecture given by Curtis Roads at Stanford University June 2004
Historical example of granular synthesis: Prototype (1975)
Cover: Bubble chamber image of a collision of a high-energy neutrino particle with the nucleus of a hydrogen atom. Bubble chamber image courtesy of CERN, Switzerland.