Anaculaton
Timpani reduced to impact → membrane → resonance → decay, then interfered with: attacks activate virtual resonating bodies beyond the instrument's scale, alongside wind, tunnels, machinery and distant environmental resonance.
- 2026
- Electroacoustic
- Fixed media — timpani and field recordings
Anaculaton begins with the timpani as an extremely simple causal event: impact → membrane → resonance → decay. The piece gradually interferes with this sequence. Timpani attacks activate virtual resonating bodies whose scale exceeds the apparent dimensions of the original instrument. Field recordings — wind, ventilation, tunnels, machinery, distant environmental resonance and other sustained spaces — carry the sound beyond the instrument.
First piece of A Mechanics of Almost.