PERRY MASON IN EAST GERMANY (5'13") _1988

From the firstHUB CD
composer: John Bischoff
performers: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Mark Trayle
recorded at Fylkingen, Stockholm 9/27/88 engineer: Paul Pignon

Each of the six players runs a program of his own design which constitutes a self sustaining musical process. Each program is configured so that it can send three changing variables important to its operation out to the Hub and also to receive three variables from other players. Each player reads the variables put out by three different performers, and sends out for use by three different performers as well. This relationship of mutual influence results in a network structure that often yields a special kind of musical coherence; the persistent diversity of the parts is complemented by moments of change that appear to propagate from one part to the next. These linked motions can, in turn, affect global changes in the music, giving the music structure beyond any individual's planning.