When I finished this piece, I created the main web page (linked below)
for the piece but didn't update the "brad/music" listing -- I often
hold off on this updating because I get involved with doing other
things. Plus it allows me a teeny bit of perspective when writing
the Additional Commentary.
But I also generally stash a few notes in a file for the Commentary.
Here's what I wrote for this one:
timing
not running them together
Eno influence
loochings
I'm not really sure what I meant by these. "timing" I recall a bit;
getting the timing right for the feel I wanted was tricky, and I
think I had some things to say about that. Yes, it was tricky. "not
running them together"... I did an experiment where I played
both ArtyAmb1 and ArtyAmb2 simultaneously. It was just
too crowded. "Eno influence", well duh. In these "ArtyAmbs" I took
a slightly different approach to the granularity of the musical
events, scheduling little musical fragments instead of single notes.
This from listening to Eno's work like Neroli and Discrete
Music. And "loochings", just acknowledging the prior
long-duration ambient pieces I did. With the
loochings
they would go on forever.
I've made this "my goodness, what ever did I mean?" mistake
before, see the
stretchseq commentary
or the
seqdelay commentary.
Piece website:
Brad Garton
August, 2026