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IN STOCK
01. DAVID BEHRMAN - View Finder
02. DAVID BEHRMAN - Fishing for Complements
03. DAVID BEHRMAN - Witch Grass
04. DAVID BEHRMAN - Canyon
05. DAVID BEHRMAN - Harbinger
06. DAVID BEHRMAN - Crisscrossed Eights
07. DAVID BEHRMAN - Eln Glaesele Warems
ARTIST
TITLE
Unforeseen Events
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
XI 105CD XI 105CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/14/2015

2022 restock. Unforeseen Events is one of many pieces David 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 that 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 that adapts itself to different styles of playing, and to a harmonic vocabulary with dozens or scores of family members.