Modulation
Adam Hulbert, Sound Art
Modulation is the negotiated dissolution of identity, to varying degrees. It always and invariably starts with what is; a kind of entanglement and an opening out to variation. In synthesis, modulation could be the gentle whisper of tremolo, rippling on the surface of a sound’s identity; or it could be the upheaval of composure when waveforms collide and together become something else entirely.
In this sense, modulation involves the co-locating of two or more defined forms in a way that leads to the partial or complete dissolution of their self definition, without erasure. This durational co-location can be understood as a method for producing complexity from simplicity, and variation from repetition.