Haywire Frontier by Nathan Ho
In 2008, at the age of 11, I created Googology Wiki on my parents' computer. "Googology" is a word for the study of large numbers and fast-growing functions, deriving from the 9-year-old Milton Sirotta's coinage of the term "googol." The website was never meant to go beyond my personal use, and I gradually drifted away from it. Fifteen years later, it has grown to tens of thousands of articles and a community of hundreds of active users.
Haywire Frontier is a 40-minute musical tribute to a strange corner of amateur mathematics whose growth I somewhat-inadvertently catalyzed, with rhythmic and formal material deriving from Georg Cantor's "ordinal number" system, integral to the study of large numbers.
The album was sequenced and synthesized entirely in SuperCollider with no samples, external hardware, or third-party plugins.
Tracklist
| 1. | Trickster Deity | 5:02 |
| 2. | Acetone Splash | 4:00 |
| 3. | Immodality | 4:04 |
| 4. | Salvation | 3:29 |
| 5. | Miracle Cell | 5:33 |
| 6. | Danger Calibration Station | 3:58 |
| 7. | You Poor Thing | 2:50 |
| 8. | Chimera Junction | 5:58 |
| 9. | The Good in You | 3:36 |
| 10. | Platinum Cat | 1:17 |
| 11. | The Calico Trials | 4:08 |
Credits
Produced by Nathan Ho
nathan.ho.name
Mastered by John Tejada
paletterecordings.com
Cover art by Isa Hanssen
www.isawiitch.com
www.instagram.com/isawiitch/
Special thanks to a0n0, Charlie Burgin (Sahy Uhns), William Fields, RM Francis, Joonas Siren (Forces), Ben Tillotson, Nathan Turczan.
