Wavecycles by Analog Tara / Tara Rodgers
Wavecycles is a generative composition of open-ended duration, using white and pink noise to emulate the sounds and patterns of water waves. This 30-minute recording was presented at the SlowFloat/Ear to the Earth performance/action event organized by the Electronic Music Foundation and held alongside the Delaware River, Aug. 6, 2011. Experienced through headphones in its initial setting, it provided a quiet soundtrack to the surrounding river scene. It evokes the soothing aspects of flowing water and white-noise machines alike, and suggests how natural settings and technological mediations overlap and coexist.
A multi-instrumentalist composer, producer, and historian of sound, Tara started her career as a self-taught jazz pianist and has since made a wide range of techno and ambient music, and generative sound compositions in SuperCollider. From NPR Music: "Assertive work, bold in the precision and subtlety it takes to mix such signals with thrill and grace and restraint.”