California's Kim Cascone explores new digital music tools with this computer generated release from the experimental German label Noton/Rastermusic. Housed in one of their minimally designed clear jewel cases (with off-white lettering screened onto the plastic) blueCube () displays Cascone's work with the Csound language, including tracks made to accompany a book published by MIT Press about the sound synthesis program. This is Cascone's first release in three years, after selling the label he founded, Silent Records, and taking an offer to work as a sound designer at Thomas Dolby's Headspace company. While immersed in programming at the internet audio company he was introduced to Csound and began to work with music again. The Csound language gives the user a greater degree of digital control over audio functions within the computer (oscillators, filters, delays, analysis/resynthesis, etc) even down to a granular atomic level. blueCube () is very much different from the chill out music he made as the Heavenly Music Corporation, and more like a crystal clear version of the textural ambient-industrial pieces he did under the initials PGR. Certainly PGR's dynamic range is still at play, with Lustmord-ish lows underpinning the title piece and "Atmo Square." Other tracks like "Bubble Warp" get into processed noise of the kind made by Phauss and their associates, while a more traditional Wergo label-style computer music sound is heard on "Sonicon1-2" and "Timbre Trees." A remix project based on these tracks is planned.