We created an installation consisting of six tape players with varying length loop cassettes, divided into pairs and fed as inputs into one of three mixers. Each mixer also had a third single channel that was a mixed combination of one of the other pairs of cassette players. Using headphones, participants could mix the source material as they chose, but the output of their alterations was sent to the subsequent listener. The result was a circle of sound, layering and obscuring itself until it was a non-linear experience, a circular aura, a wash, a worn path, a haze. While the actions of each listener influenced the shifting tones and moods of the whole, its direction and presence remained mostly unchanged. They became participants in the perpetual motion. 

Imagine a circle as large as your visual perception will hold. If we start from the outside to draw lines to the center at 90 and 180 and 270 and 0, we can start to see the similarities between the “drastically different” angles. Draw some more lines across at 45 to 225 and 135 to 315. Visualize the circle so that you are at an endpoint of an angle, like you are sitting at a very large table with three hundred and fifty-nine other people. What about the nearby degrees, how similar is the vantage? At how many other angles can you place yourself on that circle before you begin to realize that you sit equidistant to the center as the others and have the same self-interest in remaining a part of the circle? The behavior of the endpoints of all the angles should always reflect the primacy of the circle, else it will cease to be.

This is not to say triangles are not equally wonderful, but squares are overrated and overused. Lines are fine to a point. But none so radical as the circle, so revolutionary, so close to glimpsing higher purpose, origin, and cause. There is no need for mythology or theology, only the circle.

A circle is complete. It is content. It is not in a hurry. It is an enclosing but also an opening, a portal, and an invitation. We use phrases like circle of friends or spheres of influence. It is a social shape, wanting to connect as opposed to divide. It is a symbol of all, awe, everything and nothing. Zero and infinity in one breath, in one thought, in one place. There is just as much inside the circle as outside of it. This is the only composition we have ever written, recorded or transposed as a band. And we offer it to anyone wanting to play the piece. Even now, we are still playing this same score.