The musical compositions of Richard Burdick
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Opus 256x

The I Ching Therapy Cycle (time)
Op. 256 - ensemble 2019 (English horn, horn, harp, 'cello & tape)
Op. 256a - brass quintet with tape
Op. 256b - solo piano with tape

2019

THIS WORK IS NO LONGER IN PROCESS; it's discontinued.

SEE OPUS 256

WITH tHE COMPLETION OF Immune Boost, OP. 256 any future works will be assigned independant opus numbers.

I was not able to get funding for this music from Canada Council or Saskatchewan Arts Board. In the time of shut-downs due to virures, they did not see the importance of Therapeutic music!

This WAS a work in progress;
a complete I Ching cycle of 64 short pieces for
                                 English horn, horn, harp and 'cello with videotape.

See complete works:

256 No. 35-27 Immune Boost

Written for "Ensemble 2019" with tape (catologued as Op. 256 No.xx

with alternate versions actulizing for:

256a: Brass Quintet with videotape.

256b: Piano Solo with videotape.

I expect this to be done in a few years maybe c. 2022. Some parts are already complete, perhaps enough to make a concert suite of four movement . . .?

64 moods to heal 64 aspects of life

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I I have applied to the Saskatchewan Arts Board
for funding to write this work:

Support for composer Richard Burdick to write: "The Healing I Ching Cycle" Op. 266. A large composition for English horn, horn, harp, ‘cello and tape.

If you would like to help in the creation of this work, please consider a donation

Question:

Reflect on your artistic practice and work, addressing topics like:

How you would describe your art (genre, form, medium, themes)

Why you make art — your goals or vision for your work

How your artistic practice has evolved and developed

Why this project is important to you and how it will advance your artistic practice

The jury considers your Artistic Vision / Artist Statement in assessing the Artistic Merit of your work and your proposed project. The lead applicant for Artist Collectives or Collaborations should address the group’s artistic vision, history, body of work and goals.

Answer:

My compositions vary from traditional, minimal-sustained, minimal-repetitive, tonal, improvisational, random, very structured, systematic and avant-garde. My creative works often have forms and structures that Bach used.

My variety of works fall into the categories of: avant-garde, classical, expressionist, healing, minimalistic, microtonal, modernist, neo-classical, new-age-meditation, and romantic styles. I use harmonies freely and I think it is freeing to listen to. I have developed a New-age-meditation & healing style of music based on the vibratory spectrum of sound.

No matter what I do, I seem to keep active and am very creative. Creativity and self-expression seem to be first nature to me. Life doesn’t seem to be possible for me without creative expressions of some sort. I am often inspired to write music when I hear the different works that I get to perform with the Symphony, but now I am really trying to focus on beauty and healing. I believe that I can be a positive helpful influence to people through music.

I grew up with the avant-garde era of music in full bloom. Now I just want to write beautiful and healing music.

This project is very important to me because it will help me organize my I Ching system of music into a further level of detail. Basically answering the question: which of the 64 different tonalities relates to what aspect of our existence, and creating music to help open and heal that part of ourselves.

RICHARD BURDICK IS A COMPOSER
WHO EXPLORES THE NATURE OF ARTIFICIAL SCALES

I am a Composer who:
Explores – the process of exploration as a composer is a balance between 1) looking back, 2) looking forward and 3) looking inward. All three aspects of exploration are a constant process. Since time is really all now, looking back is really more looking at what has survived to the present, or which I am able to dig up by research. Looking forward has a lot to do with patterns and trends as well as the many choices I make relating to what I think makes quality in music and what I believe quality is. Looking inward helps define quality and nature.

Nature of sound, and how it affects us both in a psychological & physiological way is very important to me. This relates to the both the physics of sound and ourselves. The natural relationship between tones, the shape of our hand, the amount of breath, eight tone scales, overtone relationships, internal human rhythms, & much more all fit into my category of nature.

The artificial scales I use are based on the binary and hexachordal Chinese I Ching system. This way of thinking, basing a piece of music on a scale is so ingrained in me that for example, when I set out to write eleven pieces for solo piano based on two different major triads the triads quickly become a scale. This summarizes what I do.

I am a living breathing spiritual human being,

Richard O. Burdick

Question:

Describe your proposed project, addressing topics like:

Answer:

For my one successful grant from the Saskatchewan Arts board, I wrote a large work for 9 players that is seventy-four minutes long. This work “The Mindset, Op. 242” also contains 8 little pieces that can be played separately, for smaller groups. This work was a major step forwards for me because, despite my compositional roots in the Avant-garde, minimalism and orientalism, I am consciously moving towards wanting to create beauty. A big Thank You to the SAB for providing me the funding that set me more clearly on this path of bringing beauty into the world through my new compositions.

Last year I started writing music for what I call “Ensemble 2019.” it is a quartet: English horn, French horn, harp and ‘cello. I have created a few works with my nature videos and planetary series:
See:
Palisade Falls, Op. 248a - http://i-ching-music.com/opus248.html (one of the samples for supporting materials)
Genius Portal, Op. 249 - http://i-ching-music.com/opus249.html (one of the samples for supporting materials)
Charon, Op. 254 - http://i-ching-music.com/opus254.html

With this ensemble and prerecordeed sounds, I would like to move in the direction of such things as:
“Music for healing the body”,
“Music for healing the lungs”,
“Music for clear energy flow”,
Music for clarity
. . for focus
. . for friendship
This will be: The I Ching Healing Cycle, Op. 266
• Why this project is important to you and how it will advance your artistic practice
With the organization I have done with the I Ching Music cosmology, which include new tonalities (for example the whole system is based on F-14 cents where A=432 hertz), these new works should be easy for me to create given enough quiet-free time. The creation of this large set of short pieces will take me beyond any moves towards healing music that I have done. It will be much more easily recognized as healing music and much easier to market than what I have done already, which is to open up the spectrum of sound from twelves tones in the octave to 64, which in essence this is a vitamin pill of colors that are not in our normal auditory diet.
I have a little bit of this work started; enough to know that I will complete the work in my limited-none-arts-board-supported time in less than five years, but with your support I believe I can have it done, by the end of August; I work hard because I love writing music.
I will have that possibility this summer from May through August, when I usually file un-employment and spend my time looking for work.
With the Support of this grant, I could have a very creative summer to create healing beautiful music.

I think my track record for creating a total of two and a half hours of music with my last successful grant alone proves that I will make a major effort again.

Also, with all my compositions, I am slowly getting them out on my professionally released CD’s, the sheet music published on MusicaNeo, the demo videos on video sites and my web site, and I use around 8 social media sites to announce my steps forward.

Thank you for your support.