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Aimless Pendulums

by Michael G. Maxwell

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Aimless Pendulums marks the first release in Cloud Recordings' New Music From Mathematics series, a collaboration with MTU's Mathematics and Music Lab. Maxwell co-sponsors the Mathematics and Music Lab with Robert Schneider of The Apples in stereo/Elephant 6, who is on the Mathematical Sciences faculty at MTU. The lab's goals are to produce futuristic works of music and installation art, explore music theory using mathematics, and invent new audio hardware and software.

Michael G. Maxwell is a composer, experimental musician and installation artist; he recently joined the faculty in Visual and Performing Arts at Michigan Technological University, where he specializes in audio engineering and electronic music. Aimless Pendulums by Maxwell is a 14-minute ambient generative composition using modular synthesizers.

About the composition, Maxwell writes: "I often work in loops, and enjoy creating intersections and variation through playing with their synchronicity. As I would compose and listen to the in-progress work, I would watch out my office window as students and faculty walk between buildings to class or otherwise. The walkways they follow create interesting points of collisions and sparsity. As I watched and listened, I often thought of my own path and how it interconnects with friends and colleagues in different ways. I would think about this new place I am in. The joy and excitement of change. The fear and anxiety of the same, and what I left behind."

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released January 7, 2023
Produced, mixed and mastered by Michael G. Maxwell

Artwork by Sarah Engel

Composition ©2023 Michael G. Maxwell (ASCAP)

Thanks to Robert Schneider and Karl Stegeman for their support.

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