Overtones (1999)

Description:

60hz hum and it’s first 15 overtones are played back and the piece is realized through manipulation of the overtone levels.

Hardware:

16 channel playback with 16 automated faders.

Notes:

The very first Outis piece. Since it involved constant audio-engineer-infuriating 60hz hum through the studio’s mains, I thought I should use a pseudonym for the project. The Outis moniker comes from Homer’s Odyssey, but I borrowed it from the respondent to Edgar Allan Poe’s critisism of Longfellow. That Outis may have been Poe debating himself, which makes the name all the more apt.

Copyright:

Copyright 1999 by Victor Dillahay, All Rights Reserved