Little Animals

Acousmatic composition

A forest of small creatures gradually expose their expressive selves through the juxtaposition, transformation and mutual interaction with their surrounding environment. Slowly, sound fragments lose their acoustic source-bond to leave the bare essence of their expressive content, and gradually unfold an abstract musical discourse.

Flow characteristics, both intrinsic to the sound and freely imposed by the listener's own natural sense of time, gradually unfold, leaving an impression of personal interpretation combined with the feeling of being a passenger, carried through the music.

It received first prize in the tape music category in the 1998 Interntional Electroacoustic Music Competition, Bourges.

Music extract

opening minute (4.6MB)

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