A lone figure stands sculpting in the dim halflight of dusk, through trial and error a humanoid figure takes shape.

They reflect upon the abnormality of reality, although popular culture revels in its obsession with pristine values of perfection, no one is really so perfect at heart. Like an old audio machine, a cassette deck, a reel to reel Revox A77, a Yamaha DX7, a Moog or Arp synthesiser, we all posses unique flaws, and culture moves forward as people find ways to get round their own limitations.

Music culture has transformed into a technological value system, we can observe how these systems are created and then, how they then themselves influence social structure.

Within the social super structure, a thermodynamics of emotion is at work, people's feelings, which have tremendous influence on the general state of mind, forms and fashions what is popular producing alternating eras of achievement or recession, reconstruction or chaos.

Different feelings, such as excitement, melancholia or nostalgia can have a dynamic effect on things -in a similar way that heat and cold have an effect on physical objects. These themes are explored through an evolving story line, a sonic novel called $ell.

Entropy is a reoccurring theme, the transition between chaos and order and back again, these are the aspects of sound creation that make up these sonic sonnets. Recording onto tape is a process, a kind of ritual.

Tape is the ancestor of all recorded data, that today we rely on every moment, an intricate techno-sphere of knowledge manifested most obviously by the internet. A mental mantle of globally turbulent mind-set.

This is the $ell, a relatively new dimension of interaction, that connects everything and everyone, everything it seems is for sale.