Paul
Lansky often emphasizes the computer's ability to function
as an "aural microscope" -- that is, as a tool to let both
composer and listener "get inside" a sound and experience
it within the larger context of the music that goes on around
us every day. A composition in which he succeeds particularly
well is Night Traffic, written in 1990 using software
that the composer himself wrote for both digitally manipulating
and assembling (mixing) sounds.
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