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PROTEANPLANKTON EP

by Zoetrope

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a traveller arrives 02:40
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a window across a gulf 03:27
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tangled chaos 01:15
4.
a frozen mechanism 02:10
5.
a clear pool 02:46

about

An EP tracking the evolution of simple musical organisms.

I wanted to explore the similarities between games and music, interactions and harmonies. Using the Protean Map cards from the artefact edition of Proteus by Ed Key and David Kanaga, I picked 5 cards which prompted the track names of the EP and the ideas behind the songs. I then used the Nintendo DS game Electroplankton, by Toshio Iwai, to perform the music for these titles.

Everything was improvised and completed rapidly from the concept to the final product... spontaneous and changing like the plankton of the game. Although the songs were put together externally, no music was produced outside of what was recorded from the game.

David Kanaga’s writing on video games and music is excellent:
wombflashforest.blogspot.co.uk

credits

released May 28, 2017

Thanks to Mia-Violet Leech for the beautiful cover art <3

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Sam Machell Plymouth, UK

Various music projects of Sam Machell: Zoetrope, The O-ing of the King, Karaoke Versions, etc

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