The Code, by Dom Aversano

The Code

by Dom Aversano

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1.	Discovering Quasar 06:12	buy track
2.	Moons Rising 06:15	buy track
3.	Passing Star 04:23	buy track
4.	Ancient Light 02:29	buy track
5.	Unknown Nebula 10:50	buy track

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The Code explores the landscape of a sound world generated from a simple and custom algorithm. The music is the sum of hundreds of elemental sine waves — the simplest sound possible that only a machine can produce. Intentionally escapist, it evokes the exoticism of deep space and its unknown worlds, with the music travelling through ‘spaces’ of differing note densities and durations.

The music is tuned to the harmonic series, dating back to Ancient Greece and the philosopher Pythagoras. This tuning allows for the coexistence of hundreds or even thousands of tones — blurring the distinctions between notes, chords, and timbres.

The algorithm used to create the music is also used to generate the album’s artwork, providing insight into the form and structure of the music.

The Code celebrates human agency and dignity, treating the personal computer as a tool for artistic freedom and liberty, in contrast to a world increasingly shaped by distant supercomputers. It seeks to embody a fundamental human yearning — to search for the garden in the machine.

Discovering Quasar

A quasar, trillions of times brighter than the sun, emits radiation from an accretion disc light years in diameter.

Moons Rising

Moons rising in the long night of a distant world.

Passing Star

A passing star whose awesome power exerts transformative forces on its neighbours.

Ancient Light

Light as memory, billions of years old, revealing the secrets of deep space and time.

Unknown Nebula

An iridescent cloud of interstellar dust grains thrown out from a dying star, floating in the darkness of outer space.

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released April 5, 2024

All music composed by Dom Aversano

Mixing and mastering by Dom Aversano

Artwork and design by Lucia Molina Pflaum and Dom Aversano

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Dom Aversano London, UK

Dom Aversano is a British-American composer and percussionist whose music combines ideas and practices from Western classical, South Indian classical, jazz, and electronic music. Dom has embraced both hi-tech and low-tech approaches to composition, striving to find a balance between an algorithmic and mathematical approach and an intuitive and emotional one. ... more

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