Yesterday, the Petcord netlabel released Solid State, a collection of pieces by US-based composer Greg Surges, ranging from electroacoustic to contemporary chamber music for both laptop and traditional ensembles. Having received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honours in composition and music technology, his extensive formal education enables him to pursue a great variety of strategies. As a constant factor, an open form with variable elements prevails, leading to markedly different interpretations of the same work, as demonstrated by the two versions of “153 x 56″. Due to time constraints, the cover art was a solo work of mine (the first one since November last year – all others were co-operations with Marco Cervellin). It incorporated scores and screenshots of Greg’s works and reflects pretty well the music characteristics in my opinion.