Pour water on the ground and it will quickly move away from you, either by being soaked into the earth or letting gravity pull it onward until it finds a level place or a pool. No two streams are exactly the same, each drop finds a unique route down the hill.

The music of Sensitive Chaos tries to follow a similar path. A few notes thrown into a sequencer or echo device repeat and tumble down, in and around each other until they pool together or soak again into the silence.

A typical Sensitive Chaos live performance starts from a blank slate; perhaps just a collection of sounds stored in a synthesizer and a mood. As notes are improvised into the machines, they repeat. More notes are added until chords and melodies coalesce. Variation is added to some of the patterns, and other patterns fade in and out.

For many, music is composed, recorded, and then performed. For Sensitive Chaos, music is composed live, from scratch, in front of an audience, and then brought back to the studio to arrange and record. The songs on this CD hope to convey the result of one form of spontaneously composed electronic music, music literally in the ether until it falls like rain through our fingers.

Thanks to Brian Good and Eleanor Grosch for putting their art and
soul into this record.

To Brad Jones and Mike Metlay for good gigs that made this record possible.

To Michael Thomas Roe for help making TouchXtone a place to try new things.

To Colin Fraser for devising the Sequentix P3 and to Paul Nagle for patiently explaining its virtues.

To Deirdre and Leana for being my smiling Irish eyes.

Jim used the following in making this record: Roland JD-800, Roland
SH-3a, Yamaha CS-50, Novation Nova, Korg ER-1, Korg ES-1, EMu
Proteus/1, EMu ProCussion, EMu Morpheus, Kurzweil K2000, Texas
Instruments Touch & Tell, MOTU Digital Performer, Apple Macintosh

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