......violin machine, fascinating in both his sonic and technical revelation (Dagens Nyheter 2019).

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modulo="\" (1999) (4-channel live electronics, algorithmic computer music)

The alleged connection between mathematics and music has occupied me from a musical perspective for many years: the possibility of "improvising" is important to me.

The title of the piece refers to the mathematical operation of calculating the remainder. Applied to an ascending sequence of numbers, it generates repetitive patterns e.g. 0, 1, 2, 0, 1' 2, which form the basis for the organisation of sound parameters.

My playing attitude moves between improvisation and listening selection, on the one hand changing prepared structures from within and on the other hand evaluating and exploring the resulting sequences of events.

The playing is explorative in the sense that spontaneous changes are made to mathematical formulas whose results are only partially predictable for me. The control of a process interests me here more than the targeted joining of individual objects.

Sound masses, polyrhyhthms, spatial patterns and fanned out cyclical sequences always retain a high degree of transparency and an impression of order and power, even when different parameters are linked and increased complexity and density is achieved.

At transitions from rough surface sounds, which approach granular synthesis to polyrhythms and finally to gliding patterns of minimal music, we touch fascinating border areas of rhythm in the intermediate areas. Structure and as yet unheard-of relationships form the numerical series here; they guide us through music between music.

Translation of German Program Notes by DeepL