Sirius (also known as the Dog Star) is the brightest ‘star’ in the night sky. In fact, Sirius is actually a binary star system, comprising of two stars locked in orbit: Sirius A, a main sequence star like our Sun; and Sirius B, a white dwarf.
This piece was one of two I wrote in response to a request from Iúr FM, an Irish radio station. The sound samples I used were: a bass drone and thumb piano sample from Tim Downey, as well as a second bass sample by myself, an egg slicer, and the sound of me blowing sellotape like a reed. All sound editing, sequencing and composition was done by myself.
In response to the idea of an extremely long timescale, but within only a short allowed time, I decided to try and create a form that would change and develop, but would not have any real kind of climax or goal: a dynamic stasis.
credits
from A Noise in the Dark,
track released June 6, 2010
Composed by Simon Jones
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