Fergal Dowling on 'In the Mean Time':
'In the Mean Time' was written on the theme of ‘Limbo’. What interested me in this concept was the idea of limbo as a non-place, that is a place defined more so by what it is not, rather than what it is; an in between place, a space outside space. The English phrase, ‘in the mean time’, likewise refers to some indefinite time span, defined by the events outside that time, rather than how the time itself is spent.
'In the Mean Time' uses a very slow progression of stacked sine waves whose fundamental frequencies fall within this ambiguous range. The result is a slowly evolving progression, devoid of rhythm and consisting of overlapping and intermeshing sine waves, whose perceived frequencies seems to alter with our movements in the space in front of the loudspeakers.