How to (strangley collaborate on an electronic audio composition and then get distracted by sound manipulation) in ten easy steps

1) Lay down the rhythmic bed. This can be done in a flexible way by creating 1, 4, 8, etc. bar chunks of MIDI data representing some sequenced rhythmic patterns. By rearranging and combining a handful of these sequences one can easy create a whole compositions worth of varied rhythmic material.

2) On some polyphonic MIDI instrument, arrange and record a sequence of chords or arppegios in some multi-bar format as per above. Modulate and combine these sequences and juxtapose them upon the pre-arranged rhythmic material.

3) Mixdown composition into WAV format and burn onto a compact disc. Take disc over to Cyrus and exchange it with the disc he has prepared for you.

4) Take home Cy's disc, load it into the wave editor program of your choice, and mangle the data thoroughly.

5) Load Steinberg's "Recycle", important the mangled wave data, and time slice it into 32nd note or greater slices. Export individual slices in WAV format.

6) Import mangled and sliced data into the original multi-track recording program you used for (1).

7) Copy track of sliced data onto n subsequent tracks, n being the inverse of the note value of the slice resolution used in (5) [So, if you sliced Cy's mangled data into 32nd note chunks, then copy the sliced track onto 32 subsequent tracks].

8) Starting with track 2 and continuing through all tracks, shift the entire track forward the note value used in (5), added to itself (the track number minus 2) times. [So track 3 will be shifted forward by a 32nd note twice {AKA a 16th note}; track 2 would be shifted forward a 32nd note].

9) You will now have on your hands a rich source of goo. Playback all tracks simulataneously and route audio output into a vast bank of 96 db/oct. bandpass filters. Use filters to creates pitched material out of the goo. Attach filters' master cutoff freq. control to a 1 oct./volt control voltage source (such as that of a keyboad designed for a modular synth, such as an Ondes Martenot).

10) Become Radiohead.