Unforeseen Events, by David Behrman

Unforeseen Events

by David Behrman

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	1.	Unforeseen Events: View Finder 07:56
	2.	Unforeseen Events: Fishing for Complements 09:00
	3.	Unforeseen Events: Witch Grass 13:02
	4.	Unforeseen Events: Canyon 07:54
	5.	Refractive Light: Harbinger 01:03
	6.	Refractive Light: Crisscrossed Eights 07:09
	7.	Refractive Light: Ein Glaesele Warems 03:28

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Unforeseen Events is one of many pieces Behrman has made with computer software designed to interact in real time with a solo performer. The four sections recorded here were made specifically with Ben Neill's performance style in mind. The electronic timbres are intended to complement the sounds of his instrument --the admirable and humorous mutantrumpet, with its three separately-mutable and playable bells. Refractive Light consists of three small pieces based on an interweaving and overlapping of simple phrases. A musician strikes pitches which trigger responses in the form of sustained tones. The tones die out after a few seconds. While a tone is on it deflects the pitches of other "on" tones, so that harmonic changes occur at the on-and-off edges of overlappping layers. The idea can give rise to a kind of fanning or breathing rhythm which adapts itself to different styles of playing, and to a harmonic vocabulary with dozens or scores of family members.

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released November 15, 1991

Composer: David Behrman

Mutantrumpet: Ben Neill

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