“The Discography section deals with the release of my first CD, ENVIRONMENTALISM INTO THE NINETIES: THE ENTS MARCH ON WASHINGTON. This is an instrumental soundtrack for a science fiction theater piece I am developing. It combines just about every genre of electronic music out there, featuring styles of composition that range from the classical to the truly weird.
“In the near future, look for two new releases currently being recorded and mastered: The first is MANTIS, an album of meditative electronica, combining aspects of ambient sound sculpture and aleatoric composition. The second is an as-yet-untitled album of 22 original instrumental guitar compositions. The guitar stuff is really pretty. MANTIS, on the other hand . . . is really pretty strange. Not for the faint of heart.
“The MUTATION SYNTHESIS section deals with a method of synthesis I developed in 1995 while working with some advanced students at Cogswell Polytechnical College. This technique is based on a system which switches rapidly between two or more simple waveforms at high frequencies to create complex waveforms. MANTIS will showcase an extended piece created using this synthesis method.
“The design section is devoted to my visual work, which deals in the digital transmogrification of found sources.
“Also, look for a future section devoted to some of my short fiction.”
“I hope you enjoy this stuff. Please feel free to give me feedback
He accidentally discovers a strange sonic frequency that allows him to travel to a dimension of lost things and find billions of missing bees. Their safe return to our plane of existence satisfies the fearsome trees’ hunger for vengeance. Since this is theater, a climactic battle must ensue anyway. Charlie takes on the evil trees armed only with the bees, several oil company executives, a disoriented gamelan orchestra whose tour bus has broken down on the beltway, and this intrepid black hound dog. Sadly, the dog is killed, although his ghost re-asserts itself in a final scene with a bi-plane and a Hammond organ.
General things turn out pretty well for everybody, especially the bees, since as it happens the dimension of lost things is not that great and they are happy to be rescued. Also, almost all of the trees are killed, ensuring the safety of our politicians for decades to come. Actually, it only tells that story to me, since I failed to write any words to the opera. As you listen to this music, think of anything you like, as long as it doesn’t hurt too much.
