For my research project in PY109, I decided to focus on an electronic music composer from British Columbia named Akhentek who uses a variety of interesting influences which indicate to me, new applications of sonic technology in everyday music.
One of Akhentek’s most interesting applications is the use of binaural beats encoded in what he calls “intelligent visionary landscapes”. Drawing on influences of high-tech as well as naturalistic, Earth-based philosophies – I felt Akhentek was breaking new ground in the world of music.
This project became much more philosophical than technical, but I tried to analyze the binaural beats using BAVSA (binaural beat visual analysis tool), an open-source program – and as far as I can tell, the only program available to anaylze the beats.
If you click the ‘Akhentek’ tab in the top right corner, it will take you to a powerpoint presentation like space that explores this topic in depthly with an emphasis on the links between high-tech electronic communications and natural processes of the Earth. From this perspective, Akhentek’s music not only defies creativity but may be practically useful in the process of unifying our world on a larger scale.
The song analyzed is called “Vector Equillibriums”, after the geometric figure devised by Buckminster Fuller. In essence, Fuller felt all vectors of a system could be in equillibrium – an idea that resonates with my analysis of Akhentek’s work.
