This is an ambient drone composition. Aside from the pulsating low end part, which was created with a softsynth, the rest of the composition is derived from the processed and treated samples of the hum of a utilities box located about a half block from my apartment building.
I wanted to write up an essay about the subject matter, and have made a few attempts at doing so, but it simply wasn't coming together the way I would like. In short, this piece is about how apparently discrete things--singularities or wholes, if you will--are illusory and instead coalesce into a unified picture which presents itself to us as reality. Put differently, it is about the illusion of separation and alienation that individualized self identification creates when, in fact, these symptoms are derivative of an illusory distinctness from a fractured whole.
This notion of the illusion of distinct parts in relation to a cohesive whole is present in the constructed artwork, which is a well known illustration called Kanizsa's Triangle, and is a derivative of studies in Gestalt Therapy. The idea here being that the appearance of the triangle is directly dependent on the coalescence of the other individual parts in the picture to form an apparent--but also an equally illusory--whole.
Singularities are inaccessible to direct analysis, perception, or knowledge, and only in relation can any seeming singularity come to be known. Such relations are always bidirectional in so far as some of the singularity reveals aspects of itself to us through our interaction with it, and we, as singularities, reveal some of ourselves to that which we observe. It is only through coalescence that any sort of possible experiential references are possible.
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