The NESS Project was a European Research Council funded project (ERC-StG-2011-279068-NESS) which ran between 2012 and 2016. It was concerned with large-scale physical modeling sound synthesis. The end goal of the project was to put the synthesis tools we developed in the hands of experienced composers of electronic music.

Trevor Wishart made two visits to Edinburgh in 2014 to work with NESS Project tools. In particular, he made use of the brass synthesis package, and generated percussive sound using the zero code environment. Trevor's approach to using the sound was to treat them as one would source recordings (or samples); they were subsequently processed in the SoundLoom environment.

This piece was written for eight channels, and has been reduced to stereo here.The accompanying graphics are not part of the piece, but illustrate simulations of some of the physical modeling systems that we have employed.

NESS Project website: www.ness-music.eu

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