The title Statistical Truth derived from a reading of One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem. While fiction, the book presents a clinical survey of human existence that quickly strips away any romantic illusions we have of ourselves. If it is vanity to count yourself as unique among the six billion living today, it is equally misleading to see the art and music we make – our minutes among the millions of hours of recorded works generated each year – as having much importance beyond the seemingly essential and personal duty of doing so.

More so than usual, the main compositional technique here is one of letting quantity yield quality while encouraging the pieces to develop through self-deterministic processes. While the pattern of the titles implies a symmetry, it is a false symmetry. That asymmetry results from the use and reuse of certain elements in multiple settings deployed to different effect. The titles themselves are intended to mislead. The more ominous are actually just birding terms. “Dark form”, “Pale form”, “Interior”, “Anterior”, all refer to species characteristics and anatomical parts – used because they are evocative enough to be misunderstood while emphasizing the vacuous and illusory notion of music as metaphoric narrative.

Credits

All compositions by Kerry Leimer
Production and coordination by Dorothy Cross
Cover art by Brian Cronin. © Brian Cronin
Recorded at Utility, Maui
Music and Notes © Kerry Leimer