"GoldGlow" concerns the contrast between the outer world perceived by the senses and the inner world of the imagination and emotions. It concerns a particular winter numbness, when the ego seems to retreat into itself, and the mind to take on an internal life of its own, sometimes with little connection to external reality.
Two layers of sound make up the fabric of the music. On the surface is an outer layer of virtually untreated environmental sounds, all recorded one December afternoon in Bourges and presented in almost the order in which they were recorded. These sounds are thus very specifically linked to a particular place and time. Beneath is a glowing core of abstract sounds and instrumental sounds, deliberately chosen to have as little direct resonance of a particular time or place as possible.
The relationship between the two layers is very fluid. Often they are completely independent, each following its own musical flow. Sometimes an event in one will trigger a change in the other, sometimes one might temporarily take on some characteristic of the other, sometimes they will be linked by a common articulative shaping. But there is always a barrier between them, and they are never allowed to come together to form a completely homogeneous texture.

Joseph Hyde (GB), born 1969, is an electronic artist specialising in sonic art and multimedia. He has studied with Jim Fulkerson, Trevor Wishart, Nigel Osborne, Vic Hoyland and Jonty Harrison, and has a PhD in Musical Composition from the University of Birmingham. He is currently working at Dartington College of Arts, as Lecturer and Academic Coordinator in Performance Technology. He is also Visiting Lecturer at Exeter University and a director of Sonic Arts Network.