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Ritual - Rh 208 21:30
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Solitaire - Rh 209 40:55
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Ritual - Electronic music, Em 17 - my 48th album. Two conceptual makings of music from the most unlikely of acoustic sources.

The First - Ritual - Rh 208 is derived from a sound recording of an actual witches ceremony I was invited to. The incantation suggested rhythms to me - I was looking at this time to explore the boundary of what could be considered as music and to derive a definition of ‘Music’ – which I ultimately did. I derivived what I call a ‘Limit Case’ – a minimal condition that can be considered as music. First of all sound. A score is not in and of itself music – it is a prescription for a music a composer prescribes. So sound is primary but to that sound a concideration of agency and definition must be made, of Time and Process. Thus Music is not less than ‘Sound, Conciderable as Time and Process’.

The second and much longer piece - Solitaire - Rh 209 - was a project in pitch perception. A steady, gentle drip is allowed to microtune the sounding of a vessel. The resulting play of sound and variations in the pitch and timing of the vessel are a thing of beauty - which I bring to you as music – by my own definition. That music is ‘Sound - , Considerable as time and Process.' I set up the apparatus – setting up the process and drawing my consideration of the sound over time as the recording. which I further processed to bring forward the latent timbre.


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 a long processing detour from an original acoustic source. By convention Em.

Albums number 28 to 58 form my second big publishing project or Group - the 'New Horizon' - built on the foundational 'Blue Cherry' Group - where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest, as Blocks of dedicated albums. Now in a new air I felt free to just reel them of as they came. Exploring like a man with a Time machine - where these five Genres, or Tranches, might lead me.

There are 12 Em albums in the New Horizon Group, Em 9 to 20. Em 9 is the Konzertmusic for DME; Em 10 is Dodecal – first and second parts of my Birthday Triptych. Em 11 is ‘Nonosphere’ – “A penetrating Cloud of unbearable sharps, a rush of glass hails into one helplessly caught” – after a fragment from Nono. Em 12, 13 and 14 – ‘Movement about a Point’ – ‘Isospin’ and ‘Directions’ are the three parts of my ‘Circulation Triptych.’ Em 15 ‘Earthfire’ -Contains the Twin works of 'The Philosophical Elements', 'The Fluid Elements - Rh 197 ' [Air and Water] and ‘Earthfire - Rh 198’ [Earth and Fire]. Em 16 ‘Moment of a Butterfly’ - is a momentous stylistic and ‘Philosophical’ step forward - also marking the final change from my old Drum Studio to the new 'Isabel Studio' and a step change in possibility. Em 17 ‘Ritual’ is music sourced from an actual Witches Coven, friends of mine flew in for the event, is coupled with - music microtuning from a filling vessel. Em 18 ‘Change Circle’ is a double album containing 3 pieces - projections turning slowly in a haze of microchanges – my preoccupation at the time. Em 19 and 20 are Fibonacci and Theremi. Fibonacci is a cascade of shredded speech montage brining out the tones and tails of speech into a conceptual music. Em 20 is a performed work for Theremin.

The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. 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.

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released December 17, 2013

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