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	(excerpt) © Mary Lou Newmark (ASCAP), Green Angel Music

Questions of who we really are - physically, emotionally and spiritually have long fascinated me. In "Identity Matrix," for digitally processed double bass and soundscape, I explore in poetry and music these questions with one eye toward theoretical physics and the other toward eastern religious philosophy. The double bass is the protagonist who moves through this sound world in various states of indeterminacy, organic chaos and clarity. I recorded the work in my home studio in a musique concrete style - each sound file, musical motive or environmental sound was individually recorded into Pro Tools. Thus the sounds, i.e. bells, birds, voice, percussion are unique to this work and reflect a physical sound source that I then processed to achieve the desired effect. The world premiere performance of "Identity Matrix" was at the Schindler House in Los Angeles as part of a program of "Bass and Electronics," Tom Peters, double bass.