The project is inspired by the long history of automated musical instruments, beginning with the ancient Greek Archimedes and further developed by the Banū Mūsā brothers in 9th century Baghdad, who "first perfected the concept of a programmable, automated musician: a mechanically controlled flute which used hydraulic water pressure and a system of arrangeable punchcards using a visionary proto-MIDI structure", as Doran explains in the liner notes. This mechanical music-making was extended a millennium later with the use of aleatoric principles by the European Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, inventor of the self-composing Componium mechanical music system. Doran continues this lineage further, using the possibilities of digital technology and its ability to automate a huge range of virtual instruments and introduce aleatoric elements, moving beyond human impulses and limitations, allowing "new shapes to emerge
- A1 Block (For 3 Prepared Pianos And Chamber Ensemble)
- A2 Efflorescence (For 3 Bowed Harpsichords, 2 Bass Clarinets, Flute And Cello)
- A3 Automata (For Celesta, Glockenspiel And Spring-tank Guitar)
- A4 Rosin (For 4 Guitars, 5 Cellos, Clarinet, Oboe And Bowed Piano)
- B1 Dyneema (For Flute Ensemble, Piano And Tingklik)
- B2 Instantiation (For 3 Prepared Pianos, String Quartet And Brass Ensemble)
- B3 Air (For 3 Bass Clarinets, 1 Trumpet And Steel Drum)
- B4 Kite (For String Quartet And Tingklik)
