Ecology No. 4

Sound. Score.

Ecology No. 4, I think, is my most ambitious (and certainly one of my most successful) electronic works to date. It is structured according to a refinement of the reproduction/inhibition paradigm that I've been exploring in my last three Ecologies. More important to me than its modest technical refinement, though, is the fact that this Ecology begins to show glimmers of an interesting narrative structure while remaining true to a consistent set of underlying algorithms. The algorithms organically generate the narrative. This, I think, is the ultimate goal of my enterprise: to compose algorithmic narrative music - a task which is much more difficult than it sounds!