Christopher Bailey presents his “A Database System for Organizing
Musique Concrete.” The database system allows one to catalogue sounds according to a
number of musical parameters. Imagining abstract musical gestures, one can then use
the system to realize the gestures with different combinations of found sounds. The
system itself is programmed in FileMaker and Bailey uses this engine to create
musical material that he has manipulated into a composition for 5.1 surround sound.