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adulterated insects

adulterated insects

adulterated insects

adulterated insects

adulterated insects

adulterated insects

released :
2026.12.25

also available at subvert.fm/leadingzeros

special thanks :
Erika Suderburg／Garret Verstegen／Madoka Swoverland／Akira Swoverland

released :
2022.02.05

Ryan Swoverland × John Bawden／Iris Lee／Alan Parker／John Schroeder／Megan Smith／Kathy Sool／Jamie Stratford

special thanks :
Erika Suderburg／Garret Verstegen

released :
2002.03.13

© 2026 Ryan Swoverland／all rights reserved.

Oh, are you still reading this drivel? Looking for Easter eggs? Well, here are the boring parts, since you seem like the kind of human who probably likes to read user manuals.

samples
- clutches of the machine is a reinterpretation of music by George Perlman as performed by Megan Smith:
  - Perlman, G. (1938). Concertino for Violin and Piano [Sheet music]. Theodore Presser Co.
    - presser.com/114-40113-concertino.html
- eponymous cover art incorporates a digitally manipulated found page fragment:
  - Reynolds, S. (2001, August). Laptop Punk and Powerbook Pop. Spin, 17(8), 110.
    - books.google.com/books?id=f4iBwoaNrbcC&pg=PA110
- synchronous idle:
  - Finnish Broadcasting Company, Yle Archives. (2015). Levyautomaatti, kolikko aukkoon, vanha [Sample]. Freesound.
    - freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/271401/
  - RF Media and the Texas Radio Theatre Company. (2007). 45rpm needle drop [Sample]. Freesound.
    - freesound.org/people/FreqMan/sounds/42819/
  - Chia. (2014). #99S009 Vinyl Noise SFX [Sample Library]. 99Sounds.
    - 99sounds.org/vinyl-noise-sfx/
  - jukkako. (2022). Jukebox [Sample]. Freesound.
    - freesound.org/people/jukkako/sounds/616083/
- b/w negative acknowledge:
  - jukkako. (2022). Jukebox [Sample]. Freesound.
    - freesound.org/people/jukkako/sounds/616083/
  - RF Media and the Texas Radio Theatre Company. (2007). 45rpm needle drop [Sample]. Freesound.
    - freesound.org/people/FreqMan/sounds/42819/
  - Chia. (2014). #99S009 Vinyl Noise SFX [Sample Library]. 99Sounds.
    - 99sounds.org/vinyl-noise-sfx/
  - RF Media and the Texas Radio Theatre Company. (2007). end of 45rpm record [Sample]. Freesound.
    - freesound.org/people/FreqMan/sounds/42820/
- towards polyonymous variation (for Erika Suderburg) uses generative digital audio sequences derived from a sample of synthesized sheet music:
  - Suderburg, R. (1977). Solo Music I for Violin: 1. Towards Variation [Sheet music]. Theodore Presser Co. (Original work published 1971).
    - www.tpcfassets.com/presser/newissue/18_07/pages/114-40219_1.jpg
antecedents／dithyrambs／influences [like a scavenger hunt (partial working list)]
- Amiot, E. (2024, December 9). Maths & Music #6: Mathematics of rhythmic canons. CNRS Mathématiques (INSMI).
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- Bernal, J. D. (1929). The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner.
  - archive.org/details/worldfleshdevile0000bern
- Bregman, A. S. (1990). Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound. MIT Press.
  - archive.org/details/auditorysceneana0000breg
- Cage, J. (1961). Silence: Lectures and Writings. Wesleyan University Press.
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- Carlos, W. (1982). Tron Scherzo. On Tron (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Album]. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=gWEU5apbY0E
- Cascone, K. (2000). The Aesthetics of Failure: “Post‑Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music. Computer Music Journal, 24(4), 12-18.
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- Complement (set theory). (2021, December 5). Wikipedia.
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- Cope, D. (2001). Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style. MIT Press.
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- Di Scipio, A. (2004-2005). Audible Ecosystemics n.3a / Background Noise Study [Musical score]. Taller Sonoro.
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- Eco, U. (1989). The Open Work (A. Cancogni, Trans.). Harvard University Press.
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- Engel, J., Hantrakul, L., Gu, C., & Roberts, A. (2020). DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing [Conference paper]. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
  - arxiv.org/abs/2001.04643
- Fournil, T. (2025). Spectral Medievalism: Composing in the Middle [Doctoral thesis, City, University of London]. City Research Online.
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- Glass, P. (1987). Music by Philip Glass (R. T. Jones, Ed.). Harper & Row.
  - archive.org/details/musicbyphilipgla0000glas_m8m2
- Glass, P. (2002). Escape!. On The Hours (Music From The Motion Picture) [Album]. Nonesuch Records.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=uP6BNlDu7Lk
- Glass, P. (2002). Tearing Herself Away. On The Hours (Music From The Motion Picture) [Album]. Nonesuch Records.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=F5xO4SCZmPM
- Greenawalt, R.; Kawalek, E. (2001). Swimming Hole. On They Might Be Giants vs. McSweeney’s [Album]. TMBG Music.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=YJ_fnzzHBeE&t=1748s
- Grisey, G. (1975). Partiels [Musical work]. Ricordi.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=Mmw8M_e2x_8
- Haraway, D. (1985). A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s. Socialist Review, 15(2), 65-108.
  - monoskop.org/images/4/4c/Haraway_Donna_1985_A_Manifesto_for_Cyborgs_Science_Technology_and_Socialist_Feminism_in_the_1980s.pdf
- Huron, D. (2001). Tone and Voice: A Derivation of the Rules of Voice‑Leading from Perceptual Principles. Music Perception, 19(1), 1-64.
  - doi.org/10.1525/mp.2001.19.1.1
- Hutchinson, R. (n.d.). Music Theory for the 21st‑Century Classroom. University of Puget Sound.
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- JPLraw. (2021, December 16). Audio of Juno’s Ganymede Flyby [Video]. YouTube.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=sXulBJ3k1kE
- Kheshti, R. (2019). Switched‑On Bach (33⅓ series). Bloomsbury Publishing.
  - books.google.com/books?id=xJkyEAAAQBAJ
- Lucier, A. (1969). I Am Sitting in a Room [Musical work].
  - en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room&oldid=1366001579
- Mathieu, W. A. (1997). Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression. Inner Traditions.
  - openlibrary.org/books/OL1001115M/Harmonic_experience
- McDonough, J. & Herczyński, A. (2023). Fractal patterns in music. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 170, Article 113315.
  - doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2023.113315
- Mothersbaugh, M. (2004). Let Me Tell You About My Boat. On The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Album]. Hollywood Records.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=h56nRUktIuM
- Myers, J. (2022). Ten‑Thousand Views of Mount Toro [Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz]. eScholarship.
  - escholarship.org/uc/item/33g3r2zz
- NASA. (2019, March 5). Sonification of a Hubble Deep Space Image [Video]. YouTube.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=H-Ci_YwfH04
- Ockeghem, J. (c. 1460s-1470s). Missa Prolationum [Musical work].
  - en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missa_prolationum&oldid=1361536129
- Oliveros, P. (2005). Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice. iUniverse.
  - books.google.com/books/about/Deep_Listening.html?id=yzL3QjZpFoUC
- Owen, C.; Ciompi String Quartet; Suderburg, E.; Suderburg, R.; Dempster, S.; University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble. (1990). Night Set ∕ Ritual Series ∕ Chamber Music V: Stevenson [Album]. Delfon Recording Society.
  - archive.org/details/cd_robert-suderburg-night-set-ritual-series-c_charles-owen-ciompi-string-quartet-elizabe
- Parr, T., Pezzulo, G. & Friston, K. (2022). Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior. MIT Press.
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- Pärt, A. (1977). Fratres [Musical work]. Universal Edition.
  - en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fratres&oldid=1341824792
- Partch, H. (1974). Genesis of a Music (2nd ed., enlarged). Da Capo Press.
  - archive.org/details/genesisofmusicac0000part
- Priest, E. (2013). Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure. Bloomsbury.
  - archive.org/details/boringformlessno0000prie
- Reich, S. (1968). Music as a Gradual Process. In Writings on Music, 1965-2000. Oxford University Press.
  - academic.oup.com/book/27047/chapter/196341890
- Riley, T. (1964). In C [Musical work]. Associated Music Publishers.
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- Roads, C. (2001). Microsound. MIT Press.
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- Schaeffer, P. (1966). Traité des objets musicaux: essai interdisciplines. Éditions du Seuil.
  - archive.org/details/traitedesobjetsm0000scha
- Sethares, W. A. (1998). Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale. Springer.
  - archive.org/details/tuningtimbrespec0000seth
- Snow, M. (1996). X‑Files Theme (Main Title). On Songs In The Key Of X [Album]. Warner Bros. Records.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=PdNLUT0MdNg
- Tenney, J. (1988). Meta+Hodos: A Phenomenology of 20th‑Century Musical Materials and an Approach to the Study of Form, and META Meta+Hodos (L. Polansky, Ed.). Frog Peak Music.
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- The Coding Train. (2018, July 25). Coding Challenge #110: Recamán’s Sequence - Part 2 (Audio) [Video]. YouTube.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=pYnaBQgnARQ
- thenakedbuilders. (2021, November 10). Mighty Thor [Video]. YouTube.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=54jYeWyQT3o
- They Might Be Giants. (2001). Girls in Their Turning. On They Might Be Giants vs. McSweeney’s [Album]. TMBG Music.
  - youtube.com/watch?v=YJ_fnzzHBeE&t=3676s
- Unicode. (2021). The Unicode Standard 14.0: Control Pictures.
  - unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2400.pdf
- Xenakis, I. (1992). Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Rev. ed.). Pendragon Press.
  - archive.org/details/formalizedmusict0000xena
- Xenakis, I. (1997). S.709. On Electronic Music [Album]. Electronic Music Foundation. (Original work composed 1994).
  - youtube.com/watch?v=Zmi2EVb7kQU
- Young, La Monte. (2000). Notes on The Theatre of Eternal Music & The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys. The Mela Foundation.
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techno dracula
- Thot, D. [@thatsgoodweb]. (2022, January 17). FJTrzDAX0AEB0gI.jpeg [Post]. Twitter.
  - twitter.com/thatsgoodweb/status/1483069442514993157