Man: Machine: Environment

Rhythm, tempo and notation are what we understand as the standards of musical measurement. In regards to the audio recordings of my car, the rhythm and tempo are defined by two things:

1. The environment - road conditions pertaining to traffic, stop lights, turns, etc.
2. Man - personal habits of acceleration, clutch control, shifting, braking, etc.


The driver of the car or the composer as I will attempt to get in the habit of calling him, plays each key of the car and sends signals to produce sounds in various locations of the engine system. A cyclical relationship of interdependency is created between man, machine, and environment. The man reacts to the environment, the car reacts to the man, and the environment reacts to the car as it continuously changes due to high velocities.

I have divided the recordings of the car into three categories:

The Interior: Sounds that are directly created by my bodies influence, eg: the brake pedal
The Engine: Sounds that are created by the various parts of the engine.
The Exterior: Sounds that are created by the outside environment