Lanski Threads

I chose to listen to Paul Lansky's Threads: Movement I. This piece was very soothing and had a nice overall tone. At first I couldn't tell any computers had been involved in modifying the sound, but after listening for a few minutes I picked up constant tones that couldn't be coming from any instruments. These were almost like generated sounds that acted like a sine wave going through different notes. There were also a few spots were the instruments themselves had changed. Some of the bells actually sounded like waves instead of a constant tone. You could tell these sounds had been manipulated in some way, it is just difficult to pinpoint because they were only changed ever so slightly.