© Douglas Henderson
in the 10,000 Things series Douglas Henderson uses spatial architecture to structure his music. The space, location, movement and shape of sound are the the primary considerations, while the needs of this sonic holography dictate all choices in the composition. The 105th Thing (of 10,000) seeks to describe a subterranean rotor, constructed using the heavily edited and processed sounds of a subway car rounding the corner of Alexanderplatz in Berlin. By employing rapid, violent reversals of acoustic phase relationships, virtual propellers emerge, and begin to rotate, flying closer and closer in a darkened cloud; and once established, the image is gradually erased by inserting increasingly numerous grains of silence, until all is blank.