ca.AD for tape and video.

Ca.AD was born out of a collaboration between master students in Fine Arts at the University of Ulster and composers from Queen's University, Belfast.
At this time I was not particularly keen to do a collaboration with a video artist due to the fact that video materials were not the type of images that often guided my work up to this point.

My inspiration was coming from 'internal' images (inside my mind) and never from pictures or a movie. In spite of this, the way the artist Michael Crone approached the project was extremely stimulating and I decide to start working with him.

I restricted myself to the use of CLM (Common Lisp Music) as the only tool to do the sound transformation of sources.

I experimented with the use of embedded loops to control pointers in order to read sound files starting from different time locations . This also allowed me to vary the speed and direction of playback.
The concept and use of time in electroacoustic music was an important consideration in this piece. Within the work, as in other electroacoustic works, the concept of the passing of time is different from conventional music.

The source materials came from original recordings of authentic Indian instruments such as sitar, bamroo, bansuri, bells, harmonium, kabbas.