Impossible Music by Michael Peters
Algorithmic Music based on Gumowski-Mira attractors
This music is based on a strange attractor named after Igor Gumowski and Christian Mira, CERN physicists who discovered it during their research in nonlinear dynamic systems. The surprisingly beautiful graphical representations of this kind of attractor seem to resemble plancton lifeforms from some mathematical ocean.
"Impossible Music" contains 16 recordings of live improvisations with a software that is based on these attractors. Attractor data were made audible by a digital piano and a sampler usually loaded with percussion samples.
The improvisations were recorded in 1996, most were done together with Matthias Ebbinghaus (who controlled piano pedals and did the live mix).
Tracklist
| 1. | Relentless Bagatelle | 2:09 |
| 2. | Cowbell Burlesque | 2:25 |
| 3. | Invention Of The Cube | 2:05 |
| 4. | Malfunction for Jazzrock Automaton | 2:17 |
| 5. | Etude with Head-Scratching Interludes | 1:11 |
| 6. | The Anomalous Catalogue | 9:05 |
| 7. | Alhambra Algebra | 4:21 |
| 8. | Impossible Music | 1:38 |
| 9. | Beguine Adrenaline | 2:06 |
| 10. | Serious Clusters | 0:58 |
| 11. | Blow-Up Meltdown | 3:25 |
| 12. | Arthropod Arena | 1:28 |
| 13. | Woodenfall | 6:43 |
| 14. | The Black Edge | 0:57 |
| 15. | Guicamole | 3:23 |
| 16. | Frowning Bagatelle | 0:54 |
| 17. | HOP Montage (bonus track) | 6:51 |
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License
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Far away from the musical mainstream, always looking for new sound worlds: polyrhythmic minimal music, ambient sound clouds, avantgarde rock, abstract and atonal experiments, algorithmic compositions, field recordings, guitar and livelooping ... WIRE magazine has reviewed some of Michael's albums in their "Outer Limits" section - that says it all, more or