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• Each Other
• Electric Dreams
• The days of thinking of time as a river (evenly flowing, always advancing) - are over.
• I Dream of Gerontius
• The Whirring Underneath (Four Thought Machines for Marimba Solo)
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• Run Away (I was safe in anger and lost in fear)
• Endangered Hardware Petting Zoo
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• Orbiter
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• Creature
• A Polemic Overture
• Five Excerpts From Summer
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• Ridge A
• On Approach to the Waking World
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• Piano Found on Britain's Highest Mountain
• Water Cycle
• Baby T.V.
• On The Absence of Things
• IDST (If Destroyed Still True)
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• Guernica In Your Livingroom

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Endangered Hardware Petting Zoo

(2013) For 8 Floppy Disk Drives - 2'30'

Glasgow Floppies

Using a bit of technological magic, floppy disk drives (“wait, do they even make those anymore?”) can be made to play music from MIDI files. Although there are plenty of examples of this online, this was previously limited to film soundtracks and the music from Tetris; nowhere could I find anything being written specifically for them. .

Thus, I see this installation as a research project, exploring the eight drives as instruments. It features new works by the RCS composition department, which play continuously.

- Alexander Horowitz (2013)

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