Anhedral Skipstack by Ray Manta

Many many years ago I recorded the in-house radio channels on a domestic Australian flight, skipping endlessly for ten minutes to a minidisc recorder. Perhaps twenty years later I extracted the audio and did a live granular performance using this recording as the sole sound source.

With an unhealthy passion for the quirks of the Commodore64 MOS SID chip (6581 and 8580), Ray Manta has for the past few years tinkered with perhaps a different approach to C64 composing, with multiple SID chips and utilising unconventional archaic sound tools (Musicalc, speech synthesis) in conjunction with more modern applications such as MSSIAH and more well-known C64 trackers (SID Wizard).

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