In trying to come to a clean honest view of what has been and is my own life each day, each moment I am discovering that person. I am that person only if I keep my attention focused both on others I  find myself caring about and valuing and on the person I am as [...]

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Earlier this week I stumbled upon the new Radiohead music video for their song “House of Cards,” which I had been eagerly anticipating since they first posted screen shots from it on their site. The excitement came from the fact that the video was not shot with camera, but by using lasers to capture then [...]

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I think we are facing change to a degree and depth and speed unprecedented in our recorded experience.
And I feel like an automaton reiterating.
I want to affirm : I am determined not to give up or in or out for as long as I can make the choice. That way is growth and openness .
Can [...]

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At this time in my life I am trying to make an intelligible whole out of all the pieces. I mean both musical pieces and fragments of myself. Some of these shards can simply be discarded and some even have to be trash-disposed. But most need my focused attention to fit in and to function [...]

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This is something that I’m thinking about in regard to my new piece I’m writing for electric bass and mictrotonal piano:

Beethoven’s Studies in Thorough-bass, Counterpoint and the Art of Scientific Composition Collected from the Autograph Posthumous Manuscripts of the Great Composer By Ludwig van Beethoven, Ignaz Seyfried, Henry Hugo Pierson

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If anyone has any questions, technical or other, that they would like Ben or I to address, please send them to info@newdissonance.com and we will post responses to them on here.

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This is a spectral frequency display of a 45 second passage from the last video, about 4 minutes in. The bottom of the picture represents the lower frequencies and at the top the colors fade out around 10,000hz.

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An amazing part of the rehearsals. Some bits of info are revealed about the piece. Ben gives concise direction. The performers bring what is asked of them. (another huge file. this one is worth a little patience.)

 

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