Music by Ben.Harper*

I rediscover my hitherto unknown Kiwi roots while touring Melbourne and Brisbane, and learn how to fake a homebrew analogue modular synthesiser on an ageing laptop with a dodgy hard drive. Includes mp3s of two live gigs in their entirety (at least until I use up my bandwidth).

How many times can I rewrite Schoenberg’s Three Pieces for Piano, Op.11 into something much less interesting than the original? A work in progress. Redundens 6i for piano is part of Daniel Wolf's A Winter Album.

A glimpse into a new work for live analogue electronics, using bi-directional feedback oscillators made from various devices bought at pawn shops. Includes three mp3s for download to give an idea of how it's going so far.

Nearly two years in the making, mainly because I just couldn't get the electronics right. A series of 23 short chorales for piano, combined with digitally simulated feedback and sampled nightingale stops from old pipe organs. Something for everyone. Includes an mp3 sample for your approval.

Made in October 2006 from an orphaned "temporary" file which, in Microsoft Windows' well-known way, hung around on the hard drive forever. Whatever data were (ha!) in the file were read as if it were sound data. The resulting noise was subjected to four types of randomised filtering through parametric equalisers in Ross Bencina's fine program AudioMulch, and then mixed by rapid, randomised crossfading between each of the four outputs.

Maybe it's the low quality of the sound from the original data file, or maybe it's because I'm fifty years behind the times, but the piece sounds uncannily like the sort of tape music coming out of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk studios in Köln in the 1950s. In keeping with this sound, the title refers to the human phenomenon of futile longing for a vanished world.

A strict, very fast canon in unison played by 240 string quartets with a remarkably uniform sense of intonation. Its harmonic simplicity and stillness make it a peaceful sonic object for quiet contemplation (he reckons). Full story and mp3 of the 2005 version available for download.

23 November 2003: A good day to mess around with tuning programs and I Ching simulators. Eight very short mp3s available for download.

Part of a series of 24 short, rather cheerful pieces for piano written in 2000. More information here, including six mp3s available for download. The piano is played by the multitalented Miss Cooky La Moo. No, the piano's not out of tune; it's in 'hard' Ptolemaic just intonation.