Canticle for Pure Copper - Electronic music, Em 41 - my 111th album. For the percussed voices of metal.

Canticle for Pure Copper - Rh 438. An Intermittent disturbance of a large Copper object. A large Copper vessel was suspended and gently percussed at Isabel - the sound and the silences were then pressed into the service of a music Conception. A Canticle is a work for Voices - which for me has become a work for the voices of metal. The sounding strike of metal is often called its voice. as in my album the Coventry Canticles for Coventry Cathedral. A one off project as an Experimental Percussionist. I do love percussing metal objects - and this would be Metal percussion music but for the degree of electronics involved.


The Outer Blue Album Group - Em Indices

An early reorganization of my music research interests had 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 Electronic music, Em. - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source. By Convention Em.

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, Metal Percussion music, or MPm. The third of five is the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP. The last genre is Electronic music, Em, taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Album numbers 96 to the End form my Fifth ‘Group’ - a 5th time division across my Genres, my Outer Blue Group. The End being what it will be, but I have no plans, at the time of writing, in August 2020, to number any further albums, the given End being 142. There was then another album, completing 3 pieces from the archive. Curiously I didn’t number it - I dislike numbers that end in a 3 - not a good place to end.

This all builds on the foundational 'Blue Cherry Group' [where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest] and the big 'New Horizon Group' - [where I explored to see where these five genres were leading me]. There then seemed to be a ‘band of gold’ across my discography. My Golden Band Group, that mark a particularly successful time for me. The albums that follow that, 76 to the End, are a ‘Blue Horizon’ - after the phrase ‘blue sky research’ - the ‘Blue Horizon Group.’ For convenience, I divided this Huge area into the Inner and the Outer Blue. So my Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Group. Then a Fifth and last Group builds upon that - my outer Blue Horizon - or Outer Blue Group.

There are Seven Em Albums in my Outer Blue Group, Em 38 to 44. In all the previous groups, Em was by far the largest component of the Group. Em seems [in 2020] - to have come to the end of its natural reach, to the end of its natural usefulness as a Genre in my personal music. It is difficult to imagine it going any further, at least not in scale. At 44 Albums, many of them disc sets, I think we’re done.

[] Album Em 38 is Blue Dark Marine – with Jim Tetlow’s fabulous cover Painting. It is not about the Sea though, it is about the colour Blue Dark Marine - a million tons of pure blue, a wonderful place to ‘part the blue’ - to change horizons, to a darker hue, the Outer Blue, the First Album in the Group.

[] Album Em 39 Dodecette, brings to a conclusion the Beriom series. The Cannonical 12th part, not even titled as such, I chose to tell you that it was.

[] Album Em 40 is Profusion, a work of almost a minimal texture. Conceptually akin to album MSEP 8 – ‘Very Quiet music’ - where almost is sometimes quite a lot. The album cover is a large red dot - not a Japanese Flag though - it is a Red Dot.

[] Album Em 41Canticle for Pure Copper - canticle again - the Voice of metal. A large Copper object is struck repeatedly.

[] Album Em 42 ‘Funeral music,’ a large scale, electronic conception, of music, for the funeral of a Queen - my Mother - there is nowhere to go from here. But yet - I did - much later on, I completed some projects I had left unfinished.

[] Album Em 43 Geut - B version, which I felt should now be included for the Edition.

[] Album Em 44 similarly - a final piece, a long planned work finally realised. Vibration Blue light and a B version comes to light. Realising an expression of pure blue light - I once saw - as a thin vibration, as is light itself, as is sound - and I hear what I see as music.

[] Album Em Arkiv - What number added to one - Rh 441. A piece knocked out of time and contention by Em 42 - the funeral music - for the untimely death of my mother. Which ended the Em run for eight years. Then in 2019 - I was tidying lose ends for the British Library Edition - and Hence - the Albums Em 43, 44 and the Em Arkiv.


Outer Blue Group - Em []

[] DCM 096 Em 38 -- Blue Dark Marine []

DCM 097 MSEP 22 -- Sn for Solo Vc 1, 2
DCM 098 Dm 15 -- Dm Sn no 9. 9
DCM 099 MSEP 23 -- Sn & St for S. Vc
DCM 100 Dm 16 -- W Dan. 8 -14

[] DCM 101 Em 39 -- Dodecette []

DCM 102 MSEP 24 -- Luigi
DCM 103 Dm 17 -- Dm Sn no.10
DCM 104 MPm 12 -- Hamermusic
DCM 105 MSEP 25 -- Consort m. for Strings
DCM 106 MPm 13 -- 45’23 - Mp solo
DCM 107 Dm 18 -- Zen Yen Zen
DCM 108 Dm 19 -- Metrognomics
DCM 109 MSEP 26 -- Nabucco - Om

[] DCM 110 EM 40 -- Profusion []
[] DCM 111 Em 41 -- Cant for P C []

DCM 112 Phm 12 -- Past for wind gr.
DCM 113 Arkiv -- Arkiv

[] DCM 114 Em 42 -- Funeral Music []

DCM 115 MSEP 27 -- TUOE [Sym 2]
DCM 116 MSEP 28 -- Sin Vit [Sym 3]
DCM 117 MSEP 29 -- Symphony 4
DCM 118 DM 20 -- Table music
DCM 119 Dm 21 -- Konnyek
DCM 120 MSEP 30 -- Codasolo
DCM 121 Dm 22 -- 5th Inv for Dj
DCM 122 Dm 23 -- Drum Mantra
DCM 123 MSEP 31 -- Symphony 5
DCM 124 Dm 24 -- 6th Inv for Dj
DCM 125 MPm 14 -- Footfall A & B
DCM 126 MPm 15 -- Inv for Steel Casing
DCM 127 MPm 16 -- Imp in 4 and 3 Pts
DCM 128 MPm 17 -- Six Sns. for Metal P.
DCM 129 MPm 18 -- Inv for Industrial Unit
DCM 130 MPm 19 -- Now is N. t. T. f Dan
DCM 131 MPm 20 -- Parellelia
DCM 132 MSEP 32 -- Organum
DCM 133 MPm 21 -- Perfor in Plastic

[] DCM 134 Em 43 -- Geut - B Version []
[] DCM 135 Em 44 -- Vib. Blue Light []
[] DCM Ark Em Arkiv -- What nu. Added to []

DCM 136 Dm 25 -- Sn for S. Dm 11 &12
DCM 137 MSEP 33 -- They Make Music
DCM 138 Dm 26 -- Double Up + Per PP
DCM Ark Dm Arkiv -- Sometime Live
DCM 139 Dm 27 -- In an English Pa Ch
DCM 140 MPm 22 -- Quarlium
DCM 141 MSEP 34 -- A Little Less than K.
DCM 142 MSEP 35 -- Gregorious A & B
DCM 143 MSEP 36 -- Entangled A.B & C


The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2020. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.