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CD6
Richard Burdick
with tape
Music for
solo multiphonic* horn
& tape
Hear the recording on BandCamp
Recorded in 2003
- RELEASE DATE: 10/1/2003
-
CD Tour
Avant guard multiphonic horn
multiphonic is the technique of singing & playing at the same time.
My Sculptures are a very important part of my compositional output as they are key pieces from several different periods in my compositional life. Sculpture I was written in 1980 and ‘81 when I was in college at California state University at Hayward studying with Glen Glassow. It contains the greatest amount of unusual techniques including singing and playing, stopped, inhaled falsetto and talking through the horn. The main aspect of these works is the multiphonics or singing and playing. Sculpture I contains my most favorite effect; that of singing and playing in unison and then gradually rising in pitch with my voice to the perfect pitch. The interference beats accelerate rapidly then gradually slow down to the still fifth. Sculpture I has a few fragments from Beethoven’s second symphony minuet.
Sculpture II is more fugal in nature written in 1982 and was originally a group of ten phrases to be played in any order but has solidified into my favorite order.
Sculpture III is the most difficult of the five having basically two different melodies which alternate as each time the multiphonic chords increase in size by a half step, so for the most part the are parallel intervals in the melodies, cadenza in the “normal’ horn instead of octaves. The is a phrase in this work that was latter used as the theme for the horn and organ work, opus 42.
Sculpture IV starts with the same opening phrase as Sculpture III since I started as a rewrite of the work. This work has two sets of slides the go with it, on projected on the performer and on a screen behind the horn player with some overlap. This work is much more of a mature work than the previous in that the phrases are more melodic. It was written entirely in the practice room with horn, which is very unusual for me since I write mostly on public transit in my spare time.
Sculpture V is based on a Byzantine chant which draws us to a logical conclusion, a transition from avante-guard to medieval, from chaotic to ordered.
“Moments when we see . . .” for horn and tape, opus 44 and “Electronic Birds” for solo tape also came from my work at California State University @ Hayward.
The birds piece was created by recording various sounds using the synthesizers with patch cords and overlapping them with real bird sounds. This reminds me of sound effects from the Tv show “Lost in Space”
"Moments . . " is more of a fully composed piece for horn and tape. It started again with recorded sounds from the electronic studio then feeding the tape through reel-to-reel players at very high speeds. The bulk of he piece is a study into the multiphonics on the horn growing from half step to the octave, which ends the piece.
Baroque shapes and space music (molto agitato) was written in a normal way and the tape part is played by my Mac computer. One of the interesting aspects of tape music is how fast the technology has changed. These computer sounds from around 1996 are already antiquated. This work is a molto agitato with lots of hard to hear high tones. Be carefully not to make any important decisions when listening to this piece.
Videos:
About the Recording:
Tracks List:
Bar codes:
874044002371
CD87 - RoB's Chamber Music volume two
CD86 - 19th Century Horn music by Lütgen & Wünderer
CD85 - Otto Nicolai Duets on Natural horn
CD84 - Artot Quartet No. 1
CD83 - Horn Quartets by Artot
CD82 - Horn Trios by Artot
CD81 - 64 String Quartets
CD80 - 64 Horn Quartets
CD79 - 18th Century Horn
CD78 - Beethoven & Reicha
CD77 - Yin-Yang Beauty No. 2
CD76 - Found These: Three
CD75 - RoB's Chamber Music volume one
CD74 - Following Glacier
CD73 - Handsome horn solos
volume two
CD72 - Gumpert Horn Quatets volume four
CD71 - Gumpert
Horn Quartets vol. 3
CD70 - Gumpert
Horn Quartets vol. 2
CD69 - Gumpert
Horn Quartets vol. 1
CD68 Handsome horn solos
volume one
CD67 - Glacier Suites etc.
CD66 - A Lake
of Violet Flames Op. 310
CD65 - More natural horn music
CD64 - 64 horn solos (icsV5), Op. 293
CD63 - 64 horn duets (icsV5), Op. 292
CD62 - The Mindset Nonet,
Op. 242
CD61 - Vortex Breathing
& I Ching Chants, Op. 244
CD60 - Wilder Graas Presser
CD59 - A Walk with Giants
& Motor 1 2 4 8 7 5
CD58 - Music We Publish
CD57 - Piano works: Wave, Relentless & more
CD56 - Particles
CD55 - Duets
CD54 - The 270's
CD53 - Burdick & Harbison Quartets
CD52- Found These Too
CD51- Microtonal
I Ching Cycles
CD50 - I Ching Elements
CD49 - Brass Music, Op. 9, 10, 45, 268, 269 &150b
CD48 - Giovanni Gastoldi
CD47 - I Ching Rhythms,Op. 209
CD46 - A Rainbow of
I Ching triads
CD45 - North American
Horn Music
CD44 - Opening the Sphinx
CD43 - Music of Silvio Coscia
CD42 - I Sound My Horn
CD41 - American Horn Music vol. 2
CD40 - Retrospective II- The horn Quartets
CD39 - Bach
by Popular Demand
CD38 - Matthew Locke
Broken & Flatte Consorts
CD37 - Microtonal music of
Richard Burdick
CD36 - Classical Natural Horn
Duvernoy & Schneider
CD35 - Twenty-Two Trios for Horns, Op. 156
CD34 - Natural Horn Music FOUND
CD33 - More than 64 Quartets for horns based on the I Ching
CD32 - American Horn Music
of the 40's & 50's
CD31 - Grand Music of J. F. Gallay, vol. 2
CD30 - Grand Music of J. F. Gallay, vol. 1
CD29 - Astral Waves
& Phosphor
CD28 - WAVES AND PARTICLES, opus 159
PART ONE - Waves
CD27a - Castelnuovo Tedesco horn quartet
CD27 - Anton Reicha Trios
Op. 82 & 93 complete
CD26 - Accuracy Studies For the French horn student
CD25a - Bach Cantata
BWV 132 No. 1
CD25 - Nice Notes
CD24 - Duets, opus 132 complete in the "one takes"
CD23 - More than 64 solos for Horn, Op. 139
CD22 – Naderman’s Music
for Horn and Harp
CD21 - Beyond Favorites
CD20 - Classical Gas
CD19a - Dauprat's trios
Op. 26
CD19 - Dauprat's Grand Music
CD18 - Louis-Francois Dauprat
Duos for Horns,
Opus 13 vol. 2
CD17 - Favorites
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Barber,
Grieg,
Bach BWV 82 & 225
CD16 - Howlers Revised 2006
Dauprat Duets, Op. 14, Mozart
CD15 - J. S. Bach's Easter Oratorio, BWV 249
CD14 - Dauprat’s Op. 8
CD13 - 64 Duets, Op. 132 part two #17-34
CD12 - Reveré by V. Herbert
CD11 - 64 Duets, Op. 132 part one #1-16
CD10 - The Planets for
solo horn, opus 19
CD 9 - Louis-Francois Dauprat
Duos for Horns, Op. 13
CD 8 - Portal Solo Multi-phonic French horn In An Environment of drones & overtones.
CD 7 - INFINITY ONE
CD 6 - "Richard Burdick with tape"
CD 5 - "Let Me Out
CD 4 - 4.5 INCH SINGLE Aaron Blumenfeld’s Horn Sonata
CD 3 - H o w l e r s
Louis-François Dauprat’s
20 Duos for Natural
CD 2 - I Ching Arpeggios
CD 1 - Rebel with a Horn
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