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Opus 62
Astral Waves I
for horn and tape
Written: August - October 1991
The music is available for purchase, but even the final files in .zip form are quite large, and requires a file transfer service. $40
Premiered: 1/11/92 Trinity Chamber
Known concerts performances: 1/12/92 Davis Arts Center
The music is available for purchase, but even the final files in .zip form are quite large, and requires a file transfer service.
If you buy the music from here I will send a link to a file transfer service download. Price is $40 and you will get:
1) horn part
2) study score
3) a practice tape in .wav form
4) a tape for performance in .wav (stereo) horn part
Astral Waves I, opus 62 for horn and tape has been performed a number of times, it seems to build and build and the silences which happen late in the work are quite effective.
I believe there are four parts to this work, it’s a cycle that happen four time with different views. I think this sort of work is important, because a student can spend hours of practice with the tape, alone in preparation for such things a student recitals.
Version one was typed and recorded before I had my own computer late in 1991 so the computer generated tape was created by my copyist then. The original tape part is on a cassette tape and that is probably why the pitch is at A= 436.
In 2017 I completed a new edition with very similar sounds on the tape and an improved horn part, plus a practice version with click track, that should be used in performance into the horn player's headphones while simultaneously playing the real tape part to the audience.
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Original notes showing the working of the prominent polyrhythms that were used in this work. I was about this time that the composer was studying the teachings of Joseph Schillenger
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