Music

Examples of Mu-Psi—the musical counterpart to SciFi. Each piece is a(n) hypothesis, a “what-if” premise; musical transformations explore the ramifications of that premise, for example “What if you tried to create music using nothing but clicks?”, “What if the Internet showed signs of being a group-intelligence?”, “What would it sound like if the dissemination of genetic information by a lysogenic virus were modelled in sound? What does friction sound like?”

Cyclonic (2008) Is there any difference between events as recorded, events as experienced, events as remembered, and events as imagined?

Frog Pool Farm (2002) - What if every living thing on Earth is signalling — “Here I am!”

Lament (1999) What if we could upload our life-long accumulation of knowledge prior to death?

Levulose (1986) What if left-handed sugars could satisfy your hunger while starving you to death?

Lysogeny (1983) Ideas spread from mind to mind in the same way that genetic information is dragged from one cell to another by a lysogenic virus.

Mitochondria (1994) Imagine a telelphone call from your mitochondria.

Motet (1977) Sentient animals and vegetables beg the question: what is legal to eat?

Public Organ (1995) The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. —Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell

SlipStick (2008) Could there be a world without friction? And if so, would we really want to live there?

sunSurgeAutomata (1987) Sunlight streaming over the Earth energizes self-organizing systems that evolve from clicks into pitch, rhythm, and life

Tangled Timelines (1999) When you visit your home town or re-read your old papers or journal, your timeline crosses over itself and gets tangled up

Trinity (1989) The exact moment at which the atomic bomb ceased to be a fascinating scientific challenge and became a weapon of mass destruction

X bar (1986) Cantor Sets: Can you hear the spaces between the sounds?

Yes (1981) The scientific, the erotic, and the mystical thoughts simultaneously flowing and interacting in your brain