David Mooney was born 1949 in Newport News, Virginia, USA. In the mid-sixties through college, I 
experimented with various kinds of tape manipulation. After college, I digressed for 
two decades through writing and visual arts before returning to music in the early 
1990s. Completed an introductory course in electronic music with Pablo Ortiz at the
University of Pittsburgh in 1993. Otherwise, I am a self-taught composer of 
computer music. Performances include the New Electroacoustic Music concert of the 
1998 Music on the Edge series at the University of Piftsburgh; a pre-opening concert 
at the Electronic Music Foundation's Engine 27 performance space in New York in 
1999; the International Computer Music Conference in Beijing (ICMC99); and a 1999 
broadcast on the Works from the Fringes of Sonic Expression show on WMBC, 
Baltimore.

Screws in Their Shoes 4'26": This is one of a projected set of 24 short pieces based on the rhythmicon. Leon 
Theremin built the rhythmicon inl931 for Henry Cowell as a vehicle for Cowell's 
exploration of the relationship of rhythm to the harmonic series. Using a keyboard, a
performer could sound any combination of the first sixteen tones of the harmonic 
series. The tones beat rhythmically according to the intervals of the tones, so that 
for each beat of the fundamental the second harmonic beat twice, the third 
harmonic three times, etc. Using the Kyma system, I've created a "virtual 
rhythmicon environment" that extends the concept up through the 24 th harmonic. In 
this piece, number 19 of the series, beats emerge from a cold sonic soup only to 
sink again into the obscurity of amorphous sound.