Magic (2010) Electroacoustic sound composition — Duration: 9’45” “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” —Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future (1962) Composed during a residency at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in the summer of 2010, Magic was commissioned as part of the Giga-Hertz Production Award that I had received the previous year. The four-week residency provided an exceptional opportunity to work intensively—nearly 300 hours of uninterrupted composing—within ZKM’s state-of-the-art studios. The piece was originally conceived for 32-c...