Between the Lines

When I was recording my flute and electronics piece, Oasis, I fell in love with the sound of cracked notes, and the unintentional whistle tones produced when the flutist played extremely quietly. As I mixed the piece I tended to emphasize the breath sounds and all of these other "noises" that inevitably occur with live playing. I know the reason I was drawn to these sounds so much... normally in my electronic world they are absent. So much of my time in mixing and recording my files is spent on the making it sound like a realistic performance, adding the imperfect human element. Detuning, adding noise, finessing the vibrato and performance techniques.
Since then I have based entire compositions on these often unwanted sounds or "noises." My Digital Construction suite includes sounds of a bowed violin. Don't get the wrong impression though, I bowed every surface of the violin except for the normal position. The strings behind the bridge, the strings by the posts (listen to the end of #2, it sounds like a creaky swing-set) the bridge itself, the neckpiece, the posts etc...
I like to think of these sounds as those which are beyond the notation, impractical to place on the lines, between the cracks of our steadfast notation system:
Between the lines.