Orbiting (2001)

Orbiting is the fourth single from Silonics' retrospective album: Channeling Apollo/Art Dance Classics (1989 - 2001), which releases in June 2024. It features several works created in collaboration with choreographers for contemporary dance performances, plus some other experimental art music tracks, which are yet to be choreographed, including this one...

Orbiting evolved from experiments using MetSynth and SuperCollider software, which were recorded, arranged and mixed in Logic. All sounds were computer generated from micro and macro variations of tartan-like patterned images, together with granular synthesis blends of a vocal sample.

Various effects were added and sequences were further edited into two complimentary stereo mixes, which were then played together over four speakers for a quadraphonic world premiere performance.

Orbiting opened Federation Music Week's 'Elbow Room Electro-Acoustic Concert' at 1.30pm on Friday the 28th of September 2001, which also featured new music compositions by Warren Burt, Ron Nagorka, David Brown and Hideko Kawamoto, performed at Melbourne University's Melba Hall.

The event was organised by the Melbourne Composers' League, as part of a packed four day celebration of diverse Contemporary Music from Australia and the Asia Pacific.

Orbiting builds from variations in related timbres, together with pulse and phase shifts that serve to create an abstract soundscape, which functions programatically to suggest a gentle mysterious journey narrative, taking body and mind into new places and spaces... and around again...

Orbiting is also the soundtrack for a video road trip at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSutUC8L6g