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framework show and podcast

Three of my pieces (Herald of Air, A Door Into Spring, and Herald of Water, all from my Stasisfield release Elementals) were incorporated into the March 7 program of Patrick McGinley’s great framework broadcast.

Posted 10 March 2010, 06:25

Zona Negativa by Normaa

Posted 15 November 2009, 11:00

New release: Complex Silence 4

Posted 22 October 2009, 10:11

Aurora, a video by Ron Homsi

Posted 14 October 2009, 17:45

New release on Stasisfield: Elementals

Posted 10 August 2009, 07:49

UnTwelve 2009 Compilation released

Posted 3 July 2009, 13:23


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Apocalypse Garage #1

This is an improvisation I made last week for the ImprovFriday July 1-3, 2010 session.

Posted 11 July 2010, 13:53

More La Guapa Papa

Here are two more tracks from the La Guapa Papa demo set I mentioned in my previous post.

Posted 1 June 2010, 11:37

La Guapa Papa: Red Beans & Writhe

During my 10-year sojourn in New York City (1978-1988), one of my best musical experiences was playing as a member of Bill Obrecht’s group La Guapa Papa….

Posted 31 May 2010, 10:28

Gyre

Harmonic vortices and binaural beats create interlocking rhythms in psychoacoustic space.

Posted 25 January 2010, 11:51

Leather To Spend

Written with Jon Gams in 1976 for two guitars, now arranged for two pianos.

Posted 3 January 2010, 17:40

Elegy, for Jon

In memory of Jonathan Gams, 1951-2009.

Posted 18 November 2009, 19:40

Invocation

Quranic recitation and Tibetan Buddhist chant, combined and time-stretched with spectral processing.

Duration: 8:16

Posted 2 May 2009, 22:53

A Door Into Spring

A rhapsody in distressed metal.

Duration: 9:14

Posted 26 April 2009, 00:07

Herald of Water, Herald of Air

Two versions of a tantric fanfare. Dedicated to La Monte Young and Lois V Vierk.

Duration: 14:03 each version, or 28:06 total

Posted 25 February 2009, 23:15

Nur

Ecstatic light: a virtual dhikr.

Duration: 7:50

Posted 11 January 2009, 18:44

Unstill Light

Epimoric dream music. For Greg Schiemer and Warren Burt.

Duration: 7:49

Posted 27 October 2008, 20:19

Law of Octaves

A third take on the idea in I first explored in Drift Dhikr, with a richer timbre and harmonic texture.

Posted 12 August 2008, 13:29

Second Sleep

A waking dream — an
empty bowl by a still pond
lit by the full moon.

Duration: 7:53

Posted 14 July 2008, 19:10

Aurora (for Kraig Grady)

Dawn on Mount Meru. Inspired by the work and encouragement of Kraig Grady.

Duration: 3:04

Posted 15 September 2007, 14:43

Palimpsest

A meditation on remembrance, breath, stasis and change.

Duration: 10:58

Posted 13 May 2007, 10:58

Owllight

An ambient piece in a dark and mysterious mood.

Duration: 7 minutes.

Posted 10 April 2007, 10:58

TimeWave Canon

A mensuration canon in just intonation based on Terence McKenna’s TimeWave Zero. Revised 22 July 2006.

Duration: 4 minutes, 56 seconds.

Posted 22 July 2006, 11:58

Sunday Afternoon

A small chamber piece for piano, flute, oboe, and bassoon, originally written in 12-ET, retuned and rendered to MP3 in versions by Jon Lyle Smith, Gene Ward Smith, and Charles Lucy.

Posted 9 April 2006, 08:06

Drift Dhikr II

Or, “Heraclitus Takes It to the Bridge.” Ambient but intense. Should be played loud.

Duration: 5 minutes.

Posted 2 April 2006, 11:26

Threnody

In memory of the civilian casualties of the war in Iraq and all other victims of political violence around the world.

Update: I’ve replaced the sound files with a version that improves the balance and equalization.

Duration: 5 minutes, 30 seconds

Posted 24 March 2006, 13:18

Sublimation (Realtime Version)

A live performance version of my piece Sublimation, as arranged by Art Hunkins. Requires Csound 5.0 and a MIDI controller with 6-8 sliders or rotary pots.

Posted 11 March 2006, 12:52

Half Remembered

A collaboration with my brother Doug Seidel from 2004. For synthesized instruments with gyroscope and other recorded sounds.

Posted 5 March 2006, 12:43

Sublimation

A drone of varying densities built from layers of complex justly-intoned chords with scintillating harmonics.

Posted 18 January 2006, 12:13

Drift Dhikr Interactive

A live performance version of my piece Drift Dhikr, as arranged by Art Hunkins. For realtime versions of Csound, with or without MIDI controllers.

Posted 26 July 2005, 17:55

Drift Dhikr

Alternate title: Combination Study 2

Pitches start at the perfect fifth and simultaneously glide up to the octave and down to tonic, and an ever-changing chord emerges from the reinforced difference and summation tones. A slowly changing ambient landscape of relative consonance and dissonance.

Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds.

Posted 8 July 2005, 09:53

Resonant Palindrome

A variation on La Monte Young’s 1989 sine-tone installation The Romantic Symmetry (over a 60 cycle base) in Prime Time from 144 to 112 with 119. An electronic piece written and realized with Csound.

This is a revision of a piece called Symmetrical Melodic Variation on the Romantic Symmetry, originally published on 6 January 2005.

Dedicated to La Monte Young in his 70th year.

Duration: 9 minutes.

Posted 12 March 2005, 22:45

Gemini Nebula Live

A live performance version of The Gemini Nebula, arranged by Art Hunkins for realtime versions of Csound. Several variants are included (with/without MIDI controllers, stereo/quad).

Posted 9 March 2005, 08:30

Passacaglia and Fugue State

An electronic work inspired by La Monte Young’s sine-tone installation The Base 9:7:4 Symmetry in Prime Time When Centered above and below The Lowest Term Primes in The Range 288 to 224 with The Addition of 279 and 261 in Which The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped above and Including 288 Consists of The Powers of 2 Multiplied by The Primes within The Ranges of 144 to 128, 72 to 64 and 36 to 32 Which Are Symmetrical to Those Primes in Lowest Terms in The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped below and Including 224 within The Ranges 126 to 112, 63 to 56 and 31.5 to 28 with The Addition of 119.

Written and realized with Scala, blue, and Csound.

Dedicated to La Monte Young in his 70th year.

Duration: 10 minutes 45 seconds.

Posted 6 March 2005, 21:56

The Gemini Nebula

A variation on La Monte Young’s The Prime Time Twins in the Ranges 576 to 448; 144 to 112; 72 to 56; 36 to 28; with the Range Limits 576, 448, 288, 224, 144, 56, and 28. An electronic piece written and realized with Scala, blue, and Csound.

Dedicated to La Monte Young in his 70th year.

Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds.

Posted 31 January 2005, 06:38

Cloud Dragon

A live electronic piece; a series of swelling sustained chords built from the combination tones resulting from just-tuned dyads, over an optional drone.

Duration: variable. Requires a performer, a PC, one or two banks of eight continuous MIDI controllers (optional) and certain versions of Csound (see below for details).

Realized for live performance by Art Hunkins.

Posted 7 December 2004, 17:56

Combination Study 1

Over a bed of sruti-box-like drones, a slow chord sequence plays twice, first in closed voicing, then in open voicing. Best listened to with headphones. Duration: 8 minutes, 5 seconds.

Posted 24 October 2004, 11:23