The Rise of Exotic Computing

This short and visceral sinfonietta was inspired by the notion of synthetic or exotic computing, which allows for computer code to grow itself in a kind of organic way. Hence the motifs of the piece quickly spread from instrument to instrument as the piece unfolds in an infectious manner. Like a self-replicating synthetic computer, the material of this work insidiously jumps from instrument to instrument. It was premiered by members of the Pittsburgh Symphony in a club called Static, so it lives quite close to the world of techno.