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Barry Lewis
Curves And Jars
Album UK 1994 on MPS Music And Video label
Electronic (Abstract, Ambient)
Recorded at Projects UK studio, Newcastle. Thanks to: Rob Meek, Paul Moore, Dave Thomas, Carey Nutman and Northern Arts. Dedicated to Dali. the liner notes explain: The twenty short pieces and two longer compositions which constitute "Curves and Jars" are based upon a series of eight-note melodies. These were generated randomly by a dice algorithm, using the 1/f noise equation formulated by Voss. The melodies are randomly correlated - they do not sound as erratic as music based upon white noise, nor as rigid as music based upon brown noise. The 1/f noise equation is found in nature, in the geometry of irregular forms such as coastlines, rivers, clouds and star clusters. Taking my cue from this suggestive meeting of order and chaos, I imposed familiar musical grids upon the fractal melodies, using computer software. I divided the material in "Curves" and "Jars", two shorthand terms for music which is predominantly ambient or rhythmic.
Musicians
 | Barry Lewis syn, GB composed by, synthesizer, album by |
Producers
| Carey Nutman artwork by |
Composers
| Barry Lewis |
Album Tracks
| No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Billows Upon Billows | Barry Lewis | 2:47 | |
| 2 | Celestial Mechanics | Barry Lewis | 2:43 | |
| 3 | Koch Island | Barry Lewis | 2:27 | |
| 4 | Vortex Stretching | Barry Lewis | 2:18 | |
| 5 | Zipf Law | Barry Lewis | 2:17 | |
| 6 | Peano Curves | Barry Lewis | 1:55 | |
| 7 | Wisps | Barry Lewis | 2:06 | |
| 8 | Random Walk | Barry Lewis | 1:53 | |
| 9 | Cirri | Barry Lewis | 1:13 | |
| 10 | Julia Curves | Barry Lewis | 20:16 | |
| 11 | Laminar | Barry Lewis | 1:41 | |
| 12 | Pareto Distribution | Barry Lewis | 1:57 | |
| 13 | Lexodromic Point | Barry Lewis | 2:26 | |
| 14 | Hexa-Squigs | Barry Lewis | 2:15 | |
| 15 | Blazing Sky Effect | Barry Lewis | 2:24 | |
| 16 | Kurtosis Of Turbulence | Barry Lewis | 2:00 | |
| 17 | Lattice | Barry Lewis | 2:16 | |
| 18 | Strange Attractors | Barry Lewis | 2:22 | |
| 19 | Agglutination | Barry Lewis | 2:22 | |
| 20 | Leyden Jars | Barry Lewis | 14:30 |
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