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"Beardsley
sculpts tones into overpowering moods...In the 17th century it was widely believed
that certain musical intervals had built-in emotional connotations: the minor
sixth sorrowful, the major seventh yearning. Atonal modernists tried to pretend
that that was all superstition, but music like Beardsley's brings the whole
issue up again in powerful terms. Why was that squeezed minor ninth so sinister,
and why was its resolution down to the major seventh such a cathartic release—as
much of a release as the newly cleansed final theme of any Beethoven symphony?
Such austere music isn't for everyone - clearly - but in its glacial tension and release
it offered the essential outlines of symphonic form, stripped of surface detail.
And in such pure tunings, the dissonant elements that, in Mozart, merely resolve
politely, here actually shake the walls and demand resolution."
- Kyle Gann
the Village Voice, NYC
October 7th, 2002
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| All pitches around D, performed on a 63 tone Just Intonation guitar. From a forthcoming CD of microtonal Just Intonation guitar music. November 2002. |
Label: Biink Music
Credits: David Beardsley |
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| 63-tone microtonal/Just Intonation guitar. Live improv recorded June 12, 2002 in NYC. This recording doesn't capture exactly what is happening in the room - this music is best experienced live, at least until we figure out how to record it! ;) | |
Credits: David M. Beardsleyt |
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