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Earth & Moon, Op. 202
Polar Flux, Op. 204

Deep Listening? You'll hear the microtones

Shallow Listening? You'll fell the vibrations awakening many memories

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Opus 202, Earth and Moon
This work is a cyclic work dealing with rhythms of the I Ching. Two different cycles are occurring together here both descending.

On this cd the descending of the first long work is then balanced with the slow microtonal rising of the second work: Polar Flux, Op. 204, which is a work that musically depicts the slightly irregular waving of the Earth's magnetic poles. Really it is based on the Shau Yung I Ching circle and how the microtonal tuning of the different hexagrams on opposite sides of the circle slide around between a tritone and the perfect fifth in Mr. Burdick's musical correlation of tone to I Ching.

In his correlation, he uses to overtone series or harmonics in the octave where there are 64 different tones, which can be heard in the work as the sound gradually rises through the pattern of 64 I Ching hexagram rhythms.

This is a multi-track recording of Richard Burdick on the French Horn. Each tonal change was carefully tuned.

Released: October 4, 2015

 

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Richard Burdick as a musician:
French hornist: Richard O. Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a prolific composer.

His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two boys, marked the start of the fourth major period in his musical Career.

In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony, a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts, a chamber music series in Berkeley California.

Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996. He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.

He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s of his own compositions, Bach, his classical natural horn playing and multi-track performances of many of his favorite pieces.

He performs on a variety of horns, a baroque natural horn (1720), a classical era natural horn (1800), a romantic era (1840's) natural horn, a single F horn from the 1880's, his main symphony horn is a Brendan Model Finke triple horn.

He has also done many music related jobs such as arranger for Sacramento Symphony, librarian and personal manager for Sacramento Philharmonic, and manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts (chamber music series) in Berkeley, California for 19 years starting in 1984.

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Tracks List:

Track	CD37 – Microtonal music of Richard Burdick	Duration
1	Earth & Moon, Op. 202	23:40
2	Polar Flux, Op. 204, Pt. One	4:35
3	Polar Flux, Op. 204, Pt. Two	3:32
4	Polar Flux, Op. 204, Pt. Three	3:19
5	Polar Flux, Op. 204, Pt. Four	3:00
6	Polar Flux, Op. 204, Pt. Five	5:21
7	Polar Flux, Op. 204, Pt. Six	5:06
8	Polar Flux, Op. 204, Pt. Seven	4:59
9	Polar Flux, Op. 204, Pt. Eight	4:52
	Total time:	58:22

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bar code: 0011711261314

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