All of the sounds in this piece of music are produced by the Earth, collected by sound engineers and scientists in various ways and for various reasons. The most predominant sounds were gathered by a sound engineer, Carmello Pampillonio, who has a few videos on YouTube about his work: one such piece finds him at the top of a mountain in North Carolina with a large data-collecting instrument on a tripod with holes drilled in the rocky terrain and tiny microphones inserted into them…the microphones can record lightning strikes as far as 2000 miles away…and these recordings are within this piece of music. Seismic waves unfurl across the surface of the Earth at massive magnitudes over deep geologic time; their ripples slowly circumnavigating across the breadth of the entire planet multiple times before dimming out. (So, keep in mind that for each of the sounds of “rain droplets” that you hear on this recording are lightning strikes and the sound of wind is being generated along with them, which could be as far away as 2000 miles!!)
Most of Pampillonio’s work here was originally recorded for use in the Make Noise Morphagene. “The Morphagene music synthesizer module is a next generation tape and microsound music module that uses Reels, Splices and Genes to create new sounds from those that already exist. Search between the notes to find the unfound sounds.” (MakeNoiseMusic) [A complete explanation by Mr. Pampillonio can be found at https:// www.youtube .com/ watch?v=nRdPs1bk57k (minus the spaces)]

Sounds include: the Geophysical Morphagene of lightning strikes: wind and amphoric resonances; seismic activity; and “space wind”.