DCM 022 Callisto - Electronic music, Em 4 - my 22nd album. Subtitled 'The Moons of Jupiter Vol. 1 – comprising nos. 1 and 2 of a set of four pieces named for the moons of Jupiter - the 4 Galilean moons. The one's visible to him in January of 1610, when he was able to deduce that not all heavenly bodies revolved around the Earth as the church taught. Volume 2 being Europa - album Em 8
In this first Volume are Callisto - in two parts - Rh 117 and 118 - and Ganymede - Rh 143. The two volumes might have been collected together as a double album, but there is a general chronology I preferred for these collections, so keeping the pieces together at all was act of will. Europa [-Rh 144] actually followes directly on from Ganymede - but they are too long to share a disc - thus pairing it with the Callisto pieces. Unashamedly Cosmic, or Kosmiche, they satisfied a need in me.
Callisto Part one – Rh 117 – Dessolation from above – flies over a dessolate surface.
Callisto Part two – Rh 118 – Dessolation frrom the ground. I found the two pieces didn’t make two haves of a whole but rather two pieces – so I gave them the nominal independence of two Rh Numbers.
Ganymede – Rh 143 – much in the same methodology – sometime later – when I collected this set into two albums. Very much the largest piece piece for the largest moon !
An early reorganization of my music research interest defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Case Electronic music. - Music taking a long processing detour from an original acoustic source – by convention Em.
My 19th to 26th albums collect together the first eight dedecated Em albums in a block, one of 5 blocks, placed like books on a shelf- in an overarching 'Group' of my first 27albums. Five Blocks for the Five Tranches - as they were founded (more of less) - five sets of studies and pieces, as my Foundational Group 'Blue Cherry' [after a friend]. The foundation stone the rest of my music is built on - in four further Groups.
The Eight Em albums in the Blue Cherry Group are : Three Volumes of quite advanced studies; Em 1 Canticle for large bell – most noted for its title piece, using the ‘voices’ of bell harmonics; Em 2 Basspoint – mysymphonic outing for Bass; and Em 3 Cleo – noted for the title piece - Cleo. Next to to those are five volumes of album lenth themed sets and pieces; Em 4 Callisto – two lunar lanscapes, subtitled ‘The Moons of Jupiter Vol 1’; Em 5 WHA – an hour long outing for asymetrically phased Tubular Bells; Em 6 Cepheid - a space odyssey; Em 7 Dark Night Of The Soul – a huge electronic tone poem; and Em 8 Europa – two more lunar landscapes - ’Tthe Moons of Jupiter vol 2.’
Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, MPm. The third of of five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion. Last of the five is Electronic music - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source – by convention Em.
The DCM album numbers are volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - Prepared for the British Library in 2018. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.
The Rh catalogue, numbers my works, in order of Completion.
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