About this site

Posted 23 October 2004, 11:53

My name is Dave Seidel. I am a guitarist and composer. This is where I discuss and present my music, including music made in collaboration with others.

My primary compositional medium is computer-generated sound using Csound. My current interests include just intonation, the exploration of sustained intervals and drones, and the meditative, contemplative, and transformative possibilities of music. In these regards I am particularly inspired by the work of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Michael Harrison, and Robert Fripp, as well as the classical musics of India and Turkey and the various musical traditions that are linked to the practices of Sufism.

Special thanks to Art Hunkins for his work, which has encouraged me to go down this compositional road and which has been extremely helpful in providing examples from which I have been learning to use Csound in a way that works for me.

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