ancestral circuits – inherited noise

24-channel electroacoustic composition
Year: 2025
Duration: 9:55 min
Studio: Harvard University Studios for Electroacoustic Composition
Dedicated to: Michael von Hintzenstern
Date of first performance: December 14, 2025
Place: John Knowles Paine Hall, Harvard University

ancestral circuits – inherited noise emerges from an exploration of the Serge modular synthesizer—two interconnected systems engaged in a fragile equilibrium of feedback and resonance. Their continuously self-generating textures become the raw material for a broader investigation of sonic ancestry and transformation.
These recordings, taken from the unstable edges of analog circuitry, are intertwined with my own processes of spectral treatment, spatial motion, and re-synthesis. The sounds evolve through layers of intervention, yet always carry the imprint of their origin—an inherited noise that persists beneath each transformation.
Within the 24-channel dome, these materials unfold as shifting fields of energy and memory: traces of voltage and breath, reconfigured into new acoustic identities.

Position of loudspeakers

24ch-speaker