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From the Silent Earth

by Bere Farno

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The Ballet of Koré and Demeter 01:13:57
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This is a ballet-rituel on the lines of Stravinsky, illustrating the Eleusian mysteries recounting the abduction of Kore, and the search for her by Demeter, as narrated in the 7th century BCE Hymn to Demeter. The three part ritual involved the stages of descent, search and ascent/reunion. I added a fourth to illustrate the consequences of the story in more detail. The rhythms are blatantly Stravinskian.

The music is entirely based on recordings of classical instruments, but was designed to have the heroic feel of the great musique concrete pieces of the post-war era. I had in the back of my mind a distant Gernsback art-deco space-station future where the ritual remained and was enacted annually, long after the earth was gone, and any idea of seasons, along with fragments of sound of the instruments, and people used those fragments as percussion.

Once again, these sound fragments were assembled and controlled using the brilliant RAVEL language, a C for MIDI and performed on a Kurzweil K2000.

They are overlaid on a bed of very old sound files of decay music, what is now called "live-looping" but was then called a "time-lag-accumulator"

Full details on putting the ballet on are in the track notes.

If anyone anywhere wants to put on the ballet they are welcome to and for free. Don't even mention me if you want. Copyleft and all that. (Don't say you wrote it, that would be rude)

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released August 8, 1998

The music is collage, assembled from fragments of recordings of classical instruments both conventional and prepared (piano, harp, flute, cymbal, found percussion). It was written as a program in RAVEL, an AV manipulation language written by Jim Binkley in 1988, sending MIDI commands to a Kurzweil K2000.

Thanks to Jim Binkley for letting a C programmer write music.

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Ivodne Galatea Nedlands, Australia

Principally playing original compositions of an ambient nature on the Hohner Guitaret as well as other thumb pianos/finger harps/lamellophones.
Interested in orchestration using field recordings, per the great John Cage's suggestions (1937).
The pieces are all pataphysical book reviews. They consist of musical essays on books of the same title that haven't been written, but should have. ... more

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