FALSE SELF

False Self works are Systems Music compositions. The series so far, consists of four works:


False Self Plays Music For Six Pianos (2021)

False Self plays music for six pianos (2021) comprises of four long-form compositions for six pianos. The compositions use integer tables to arrange found cells of slow, jazzy piano music. The cells mobilize as cyclones of repetition. They move in and out of time with one another. In doing so they create complexity from simplicity. As the compositions progress, the cells extinguish themselves in a languid fashion. The process then begins anew.

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False Self Plays Music For Six Pianos:

A False Memory Of A Sports Party (2018)

The second album in the False Self series was inspired by Elizabeth Loftus's research into the formulation of false memories. The creation of the work past through two distinct stages. The music was initially generated by the Supercollider algorithm that I authored to create my 2016 album False Self. The algorithm generated MIDI data that was sonified by a selection of electronic instruments that were designed in the 1980s and early 1990s.

I then sat with the material for 30 days, before gently reworking it. I viewed this remoulding phase as akin to a memory being altered by time.

The voices that inhabit the album are sampled from a session between the psychiatrist R.D. Laing and his client Rory. The voices speak of past traumas, however both Rory and Dr Laing are unsure whether Rory's memories are recollections or confabulations.

False Self (2016)

The False Self series began in 2016. The first iteration of False Self was a generative system. An algorithmic musician created in the SuperColider programming language, to play and compose alongside my true self.