*//*Amina<<<coming up>>>*//* (a view into the possibilities of infinity) ***A study of the possibilities of any given five seconds of a piece previously overlooked as finished thus suggesting that nothing can be finished on anything more than a fundamental scale, entailing that no one gets anything they should/could from anything as there is always a infinite number of possibilities that can be associated with anything to expand it to something new and different.*** Duration 2:29 The base of this piece is a five second sound sample of a manufactured sound texture. This original sound was created from an excerpt of a piece I did on prepared guitar which was then remixed electronically by an artist/sculpture I know, he superimposed the dialogue of an old  1940's feelgood film and altered the effects on the original sound. The five seconds are taken from towards the end of the piece and the original sound was an abstract one of noise and electronically manipulated prepared guitar. To start off with I decided to created a roar which cresendoed both in which frequencies were unfiltered and the volume. This formed the base of my piece, to form it I used the graphic equaliser station in studio 2 and processed the sound in real-time to create transient waves of the looped five seconds and a build up in the frequencies by manually unfiltering the sound from 60Hz to 16KHz. I then created the high, disjunct melody which is a motif throughout the piece by creative use of the noise reduction. The other particularly hard part of the composition was creating the tones heard at the end of the piece and creating a melodic sequence out of them. I created the tones with the generator in cooledit and soundprobe and then transposed them accordingly; this was harder than it may sound due to the precise nature of the task, made difficult by no accurate transposition tool. I used a reverse sine wave for the sound and then put various delays and reverberations to give the false impression of ambience. As I created the piece I started thinking on the subject of infinity and exactly what is and is not infinite. I decided that there were an infinite number of possibilities in the world, due only to the fact that there are an infinite number of sound pitches and numbers (n+1) therefore in time there must be an infinite number of events as theoretically one could shout any number (from the infinite number available) and then this would be an event, the same as tying a shoelace, so although fundamentally there is a great number of events which can happen (i.e kicking a chair at any given point and with any given strength has a finite, although very large, number of possibilities) if one is to look deeper and include the fact that there is infinite numbers then suddenly infinite possibilities are upon us. Following this I wondered if there is an infinite number of pitches as surely if there is an infinite amount of numbers then the number Hz or KHz could continue as nHz-1 for lower pitches and nHz+1 for higher pitches and although frequencies above 20 000Hz and below 20Hz are not audible to humans (and are ultrasound and infrasound  respectively) that does not mean that the pitch is not there, for example dolphins can hear sounds up to 200 000Hz and therefore have a much better ability to hear the sonic spectrum and have a vaster understanding of what sounds entail (their use of sound as a device for seeing -sonar-, the same as bats, is a progression on the possibilities of sound) although even dolphins can only hear a small amount of sound, an immeasurable amount if one is too assume that there is, at least theoretically, an infinite amount of pitches to match the infinite amount of numbers. From this I looked into eventualities that could have but have not happened. For example if I were to have kicked a chair at the top rather than the bottom then something different may have happened giving me a different eventuality. So as I set about creating a piece out of a five second sound sample I decided I did not want to create something from a new sound I had captured but rather from an old piece, taking five seconds from it and seeing the possibilities that would otherwise have been overlooked. In this piece a completely new piece is created from five seconds of one source, I could do a finite (but incredibly large) number of different things to each second/millisecond (etc…) of the previous piece however as it includes no numbers all my actions are limited to a finite field as if I were to then take each second of the new piece and do anything to it, although the number of possibilities are not imaginable they are still finite unless we can work with the infinite amount of pitches which theoretically, only God could realise.