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| A ferociously grandiose virtuoso piano piece in the manner of Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata but with extensive New Orleans stride blues influences. Bartok ostinati and huge chordal clusters abound. Premiered in November 21, 1997 by Andrew F. Anderson, Ann Arbor, MI, this version is as interpreted by the composer. |
MP3.com CD: Gygr -  buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor and Csound. |
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| Trio for Flute, Viola and Cello, beautifully performed by the Carolina Chamber Players, Dr. Rhea Jacobus, flute/musical director, R. Christine Lee, cello, John Ravnan, viola. The piece opens in a strange Arabic world and then quickly climaxes into a series of exciting rhythmic sections. Truly an incredible performance! Winner of the National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competition, 1997. Score available online: http://www.parnasse.com/mercurealities.pdf. |
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| A Quartertone Electronic Invention.
Quartertones are the notes in between the
white and black keys of a piano. Arabic
and Asian musics use them, but in this case,
they're used in a traditional but insanely
bizarre Baroque context.
Composed in 1991, Brooklyn, NY.
Furious; not for the nervous! |
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| A Quartertone Electronic Invention. Quartertones are the notes in between the white and black keys
of a piano. Arabic and Asian musics use them, but in this case, they're used in a traditional but insanely bizarre
Baroque context. Furious; not for the nervous! |
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| Gygr (pronounced with a Scottish brogue - GEER) is a flute trio inspired by the famous Debussy Flute, Viola and Harp trio. It incorporates African rhythms and impressionistic flourishes galore. One of my more popular pieces, the score is available at my personal web site. A gygr is a whirling deity/monster in Scottish mythology. |
MP3.com CD: Gygr - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor software http://www.superconductor.com. |
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| A darkly serene orchestral processional of vast proportions. Kin-hin is the slow, rhythmic walk between periods of seated zen meditation. Virtual tympani drive the movement; microtonal inflections propel the slowly changing harmonies through a deeply reverberant space. Composed April 2000, Brooklyn, NY. Uses Csound for various types of post-processing, SuperConductor for initial orchestral realization. |
MP3.com CD: Jardin des Merveilles - buy it!
Credits: Csound, SuperConductor |
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| One of my most popular compositions, a crazy mix of pop cultural funk references, counterpoint and jazz. Featuring that funkiest of wind instruments, the bassoon... |
MP3.com CD: Gygr - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software. http://www.superconductor.com |
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| Sonic rainbows descend from the clouds of the Eroica. The beginning of Beethoven's Third Symphony hyper-spatially paraphrased through time extension, pitch warpings and deep space phase-shifting effects; immensely vast, sublime, beyond... Same types of textures as Espace des Cloches, but instead of bells, heavenly choirs and orchestras reign... |
MP3.com CD: Jardin des Merveilles - buy it!
Credits: Ludwig van Beethoven, musical vision. Realized in part with SuperConductor software. Eroica Symphony interpeted by Dr. Manfred Clynes. Adjuctant consultant/composer Elsie Russell. Csound realization with reverb and phase-shifting orcs by Sean Costello; Feedback Delay Network Reverb model from Julius O. Smith, III. |
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| A bold, eccentrically dramatic string trio more in the vein of my SQ #3, Anamorphosis, than the other trios. In this realization I'm heavily post-processing the sound with Csound. |
MP3.com CD: Gygr - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor, Post-Processing using Csound, Sean Costello's Feedback Delay Network Reverbs and Phase-Shifting Orchestras |
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| The last of the virtual harp Obliterature pieces. This one explores musical images of ecstatic flight. Inspired by stories in esoteric Buddhist mythology of worlds where tiny flying magical creatures lived by surviving soley on beautiful scents. Like all of the Obliterature pieces, this piece was drawn with customized MIDI controlling software. Post-processing done with Csound. Improvised 1993, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Jardin des Merveilles - buy it!
Credits: Recording, Mastering, Jodi Elff |
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| A sonata for flute and piano similar to The Hammered Wind Dances I, but even more bluesy, even more New Orleans-influenced. |
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| A sonata for flute and piano of ecstatically insane dimensions. Hysterically funky and driven by rock-influenced chords and rhythms. |
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| A sonata for flute and piano in the vein of BlueStrider, barbarous and capriccious. |
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| Driving and intense with dramatic climaxes, this is the seventh string trio in the series. It features simpler more emotional material with an Arabic bent. Tetra-Mnemosyne VII ends with one of my most exciting climaxes to date. The slow sections abound with a halting gesture inspired by middle period Beethoven string quartets. |
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Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor. |
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| A string trio in a more active, less reflective mode than the other trios in the series. The piece begins with a traditional "tuning" series of moments, before it lets into a wild arabic-influenced jam. Lots of climaxes and twists and turns and lots of good tunes. This will be the last in this series of string trios. |
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Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor and Csound. |
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| A composition in the vein of Lamentation Sidèrales, but more classical in its tonality. Using a scale derived from the harmonic series this composition builds upon a melodic motif inspired by the Beethoven Piano Sonata, Les Adieux, op. 81a. This piece is primarily a meditation on distance and the spaces between memories. |
MP3.com CD: Jardin des Merveilles - buy it!
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| A Quartertone Electronic Invention.
Quartertones are the notes in between the
white and black keys of a piano. Arabic
and Asian musics use them, but in this case,
they're used in a traditional but insanely
bizarre Baroque context.
Furious; not for the nervous! |
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| The title means the "Lamentations of the Stars." A slow, darkly ambient exploration of slowly morphing timbres and chords using a tuning based on the harmonic series (by Wendy Carlos). A glass harmonica instrument re-created as a giant bell-like organ slowly plays chords designed to create movement from the pulsations of beats between closely spaced harmonics. Composed May 20, 2000, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Jardin des Merveilles - buy it!
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| A short one movement piece for violin and piano with a country fiddling meets New Orleans funk feel to it. Kind of like my piano piece BlueStrider in its barbaric approach to classical/jazz synthesis. |
MP3.com CD: Gygr - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software. http://www.superconductor.com |
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| A gigantic, timpani-driven symphony in a similar genre to the Vaughan-Williams 4th, Shostakovich 4th and 5th and the Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra. Written in November 1994, Brooklyn, NY. Contrapuntal sections contrast with gigantic Led Zeppelin-ish monster orchestral chords. In 4 connected movements, the 2nd movement is slow and dirgelike, accelerating into a huge climax and the third movement, an exploration of orchestral funk (a James Brown paraphrase). This leads into a wind/string contrapuntal section of great speed and the last movement, a hysterical and driven climax bringing back most of the previously heard material. My first symphony is actually my 5th; I withdrew the other 4 that were all in the style of the classical masters (in an inept way). All of the melodic material for this work is from my 4th Piano Prelude, CDIGE. This is a synthesized realization that uses my SY77 and TG77 synths with Csound processing. The score is not yet publicly available. |
MP3.com CD: Anamorphosis - buy it!
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| A slow promenade through a garden of wonders. A piece inspired by esoteric myths of Buddhist heavens where millions of lotus petals clash and produce harmonies that are always in tune. On the more human level, this piece is an exploration of irrational tunings designed to create consonances with inharmonic timbres, in this case FM synthesized replicas of bell timbres. None of the chords used in Jardin have any relationship to the harmonic series. Instead, each chord and the tuning are designed to produce relative spectral consonances that can seem just as in tune as harmonic tunings. Composed January 2000, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Jardin des Merveilles - buy it!
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| An exploration of deep reverb spaces and very sustained sounds. Gong-like bells resound in a vast phase-shifting continuum. Definitely more ambient than is usual for me; a harkening back to the Obliterature pieces. Composed November 1999, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Jardin des Merveilles - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
Credits: Csound realization with new reverb and phase-shifting orcs by Sean Costello, DX7 Algorithm by Russell Pinkston (Gong DX7 patch by the composer). Feedback Delay Network Reverb model from Julius O. Smith, III. |
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| The fourth in the series. More improvisational
and inward looking... A trio for violin, viola
and cello. Written September 1999. |
MP3.com CD: Tetra-Mnemosyne - buy it!
Credits: Realized and interpreted with SuperConductor |
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| Movements 1 and 3 from the Acid Bach Suite for Quartertone
Instrument arranged for Yamaha SY77 synth. Even more
brutal, even more extravagantly bizarre!
Original version for the recording, Obliterature. Released
on the first Internet Compilation CD, Musenet 1992. |
CD: MuseNet 1992
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| A Quartertone Electronic Invention.
Quartertones are the notes in between the
white and black keys of a piano. Arabic
and Asian musics use them, but in this case,
they're used in a traditional but insanely
bizarre Baroque context.
Furious; not for the nervous! |
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| A 10 minute piece for Violin, Viola and Cello. Melancholic, and mercurial, this piece explores realms where counterpoint
breaks down into pure string melodic textures. My most romantic piece yet; inspired by recent paintings by my spouse,
Elsie Russell (new paintings, not at Net in Arcadia currently). This piece changes gears more times than a semi going down a mountain but not
in my usual cataclysmic way. In this piece the shift is continuously tuneful. Mnemosyne is the Greek Muse of memory. The
title implies four muse-memories, the past, present, future and a memory beyond time.
Composed 1998, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Tetra-Mnemosyne - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
Credits: SuperConductor Software http://www.superconductor.com |
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| "Turning the Pearl" is an electronic musical exploration of the world near the edges of mental psychosis. Sounds tuned by perfect intervals morph and bend
constantly, taking the listener on a tour of bizarre musical consequence.
Composed 1992, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| A string trio in the series. Even more drama
and movement. Big climaxes and a touch of Ravelian
ecstasy. |
MP3.com CD: Tetra-Mnemosyne - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor |
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| "The Conduct of the Moon and Clouds" is an electronic exploration of lush impressionistic rapture. Waterfalls of notes gush, compete, and erupt, washing over the
listener in innumerable pleasurable ways. Musical excess at the service of beauty and disreason is here made manifest.
Composed 1992, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| James Brown meets Vivaldi and Bartok in this short symphonic work full of New Orleans influences.
Composed 1995, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Anamorphosis - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
Credits: SuperConductor Software http://www.superconductor.com |
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| My most ecstatic and complex piece yet. Romantic, like Tetra-Mnemosyne, but
with textures reminiscent of Ravel's Mallarme Songs. Quiet, but murmuring
textures supporting blues/arabic/folk melodies that climax in barbaric passages of
ostinati-laden mayhem.
Composed 1998, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Anamorphosis - buy it!
Credits: SuperConductor Software http://www.superconductor.com |
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| An 9 1/2 minute piece for orchestra full of the West and full of Southern Gospel. A touch of electronica in the rock/house
influences. Playable by college and community orchestras. (Commissioned and performed by the Clemson University Symphony
Orchestra, Clemson, SC). Orchestral score available for download: http://www.parnasse.com/zion.pdf
Composed 1997, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
Credits: Andrew Levin and the Clemson University Symphony Orchestra |
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MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
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| This piece is a three voice canon with the material
having builtin augmentation. It's been performed
in Russia and was used as part of a Master's Test on counterpoint
by a Siberian Music Professor! This piece is also know as "CDIGE." |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software |
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| Half Scarlatti and half Professor Longhair, this piece
was directly inspired by pure New Orleans pianism.
Acrobat Score available free: http://www.parnasse.com/prelude7.pdf |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software http://www.superconductor.com |
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| Fast and frenzied, this prelude is Listzian with a
rock and roll feel.
Composed in 1997, Brooklyn, NY |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software |
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| An energetic romp through ostinati-driven counterpoint and tune.
Full of surprise twists and shakes! Composed in 1997, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software |
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| An energetic romp through ostinati-driven counterpoint and tune.
Full of surprise twists and shakes! Composed in 1997, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software |
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| Wild and woolly ride through Salsa. Is that the Mission Impossible Theme Song mangled? Nah... It couldn't be! |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software |
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| Hack rock and roll pianism meets Shostakovich in this
onslaught of pounding energy. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software |
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| A classical voyage through rock and roll piano mayhem. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: SuperConductor Software http://www.superconductor.com |
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| Swinging assault on big stride piano styling. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: SuperConductor Software http://www.superconductor.com |
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| Climaxing rhythmic attack of the monster chords! |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: SuperConductor Software http://www.superconductor.com |
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| A driving exploration of funk in a contrapuntal context. Mercurial
and explosive, it continually attempts to change gears while moving foward. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and interpreted with SuperConductor Software http://www.superconductor.com |
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| A short piece of Schumannesque character. Rolling bass notes explore
the darker side of a Bartokesque madness. |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperCoductor Software http://www.superconductor.com |
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| A dark and mysterious piece of gloom pianism.
Drones and static resonances permeate this world of blackness until
a brief explosion of bizarre energy interrupts and it descends
back into the void.
Composed in 1998, Brooklyn, NY |
MP3.com CD: Piano Preludes 1991-98 - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software |
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| A luminescent string quartet inspired by middle period Beethoven simplicity. Strange echoing passages and
resonating fifths give it a modern quality, but the tunes are pure and ecstatic. This piece soars!
Composed 1999, Brooklyn, NY |
MP3.com CD: Anamorphosis - buy it!
Credits: Interpreted and Realized with SuperConductor Software |
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| An explosion of improvised electronic impressionist energy. Cascades of subtly nuanced funk collide and morph into each other in barbaric and subtle ways. Could be a good piece for some choreography. Chaotic yet bizarrely full of momentum.
Improvised/Composed 1993, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| A string quartet written in the classical style of Beethoven/Haydn in 1987. A set of variations on a theme. Performed by Tulane University's First Monday Chamber Ensemble, New Orleans, LA. |
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| An early electronic piece done with a bank of Moog synthesizers. Golem II is much more radical and again, very noise-based and chaotic. Based on the Jewish story of the Golem, a monster created accidentally by Rabbis experimenting. The monster had a vaguely man-like form and howled incessantly. One version I read of the story had the Rabbis killing and eating the monster, helpless as to what else to do.
Composed 1978, Baton Rouge, LA. |
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| An early electronic piece done with a bank of Moog synthesizers. Very noise-based and chaotic. Based on the Jewish story of the Golem, a monster created accidentally by Rabbis experimenting with esoteric magic. The monster had a vaguely man-like form and howled incessantly. One version I read of the story had the Rabbis killing and eating the monster, helpless as to what else to do.
Composed in 1977, Baton Rouge, LA. |
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| Cascades and cascades of dark chords. An atonal yet romatic piece which seems brilliant at times and vastly abyssmal at times. Grandiosely morose.
Improvised/Composed 1993, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| A sweeping exploration of timbres moving at high speeds. Noise textures cascade and morph into chords. Vast and expansive, a literature of obliteration.
Composed 1992, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| A short black adagio for strings. Originally the final movement of my first string quartet and dedicated to the victims of the Iraqi War, resurrected in light of recent violence as a lamentation for strings in one movement. |
MP3.com CD: Anamorphosis - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor Software |
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| "Bright and Boundless" is an electronic exploration of profound ecstatic states and may produce unusual psychic effects. Cascades of thousands of notes, perfectly
tuned by using Pythagorean tunings, overwhelm the listener into utter psychic submission. Rilke said, "Beauty is a terror we can barely endure." "Bright and
Boundless" is beauty as terror.
Improvised/Composed 1992, Brooklyn, NY. |
MP3.com CD: Bright and Boundless - buy it!
MP3.com CD: Obliterature - buy it!
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| A second string trio in the Tetra-Mnemosyne series. More active, more dramatic... |
MP3.com CD: Tetra-Mnemosyne - buy it!
Credits: Realized and Interpreted with SuperConductor |
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