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#12: STRAW DOGS

Release date: September 22, 2025

ALBUM VERSION:

Download direct from the artist for offline listening, free and yours to keep forever.

Also on BandcampApple MusicSpotifyYouTube Music and all other streams.

If you wish to pay for it (you don't have to), please use the Bandcamp link.

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INFINITE VERSION:

Apps that will endlessly compose and perform the piece in realtime:

WEB APP:

Play it in the browser – leave it open while you work, think, sleep or have a meeting. You can even set a timer if you like.

NOTE: This link will try to open a new browser window, not a tab. It needs to be in a new window, if it's in a tab, it will go to sleep as soon as you switch tabs. Only a new window will stay awake so you can listen while you do other things. If a new window doesn't open, please right click this link and choose 'Open in new window.'

DESKTOP APP:

Straw Dogs (Infinite Version)MacOsWindowsLinux

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LINER NOTES:

The algorithm for this piece is similar to six selves conversing throughout their lives, coming in and out of each other's spheres, becoming part of each other then departing each other, selves becoming other selves. According to the Dao, all selves are straw dogs, all things in the cosmos are straw dogs, more knowledge brings fewer paths, better to keep hollow, stay open.

These pieces are not meant to be listened to from beginning to end. Just listen until you've had enough. They are performed and recorded live from within improvisational immersive virtual environments.

Cover art: "Superb Fruit Dove," from Les Pigeons by Pauline Knip, 1811. Public Domain.

#ambient, #generative, #experimental

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