The Rothko Triptych - Electronic music, Em 36 - my 89th and triple album. Three vast canvases of Bell harmonics.

Three wall sized studio pieces. Three huge, closely related pieces, not movements, but forming together this much larger Work - my Rothko Triptych. Named for Marc Rothko, my hero, whose vast canvases I've often said I could 'hear - or rather - imagine in musical terms [along with Barnett Newman - whose work I have also said I could hear]. As for the naming of the pieces, well that was down to Tangerine Dream, and a spoken phrase from their album 'Exit'. The female voice, pronounces the continents in turn as ‘Azsia', 'Ahfrica', 'Ouropa' . . . listening one day - suddenly I was sold. That my Idea for a Rothko piece then taking shape in my mind was a triptych, 'Azsia', 'Ahfrica', and 'Ouropa'. The work would be constructed from bell harmonics which I’ve adored ever since I heard the work of the wonderful Jonathan Harvey, expressing his use of them. Here then, I am asking the listener to imagine three huge wall hung pieces. I’m not saying these piece Are visual Art, merely that I am responding to my younger self saying he could imagine a music in Marc Rothko’s surfaces – this is the music I may have ‘Perceived’- at least an approximation to it. This is the conceit – I have Three Dark, concentrated musical textures - brooding and overwhelming - taking me into my feeling and imagination of such surfaces and the close tonality of his work – and of mine.


The Rothko Triptych - on three discs.

[] Album Em 36 - The Rothko Triptych

Disc 1 - Azsia - Rh 332
Disc 2 - Ahfrica - Rh 333
Disc 3 - Ouropa - Rh 334

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 76 to 95 form my fourth ‘Group’ - a 4th time division across my Genres, my Inner Blue Group. This 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 Groups. So the Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Horizon - or Inner Blue Group.

There are nine Em Albums in the Inner Blue Group, Em 29 to Em 37.

[] Album Em 29 Auda, documents a series of vast Aural experiments.

[] Album Em 30 Haus music, is for the Bauhaus - music of metallic klang.

[] Album Em 31 is Magic Lilly music - a sweeter klang for a little girl who by all accounts could fly.

[] Album Em 32 Beriom 8, is a sea change in my work - the red album - my Beriom series crosses genres from Phm to become Em, with a huge increase in scale.

[] Album Em 33 Beriom 9, the blue album, dives under water.

[] Album Em 34 Beriom 10, the grey album is even bigger and bleaker.

[] Album Em 35 [Untitled] if that is the case, is Beriom 11 with all but name - a far flung extreme.

[] Album Em 36 Rothko Triptych is a homage to a master in three wall sized pieces, gallery music.

[] Album Em 37 Ober, lastly - is a set of shifting surfaces.

Inner Blue Group - Em []

[] DCM 076 -Em 29 - Auda []

DCM 077 - MSEP 19 - Assign 1 - 4
DCM 078 - Phm 8 - Deep Pink

[] DCM 079 -Em 30 - Haus music []
[] DCM 080 -Em 31 - Magic lily music []

DCM 081 - MPm 10 - 1st and 2nd Da Su for Mp
DCM 082 - Phm 9 - Beriom 1 - 3 (6 Tromb.)
DCM 083 - MSEP 20 - War Skies Over London
DCM 084 - Phm 10 - Beriom 4 - 7 (4 & 5 Fl)

[] DCM 085 -Em 32 - Beriom 8 []
[] DCM 086 -Em 33 - Beriom 9 []
[] DCM 087 -Em 34 - Beriom 10 []
[] DCM 088 -Em 35 - Untitled []
[] DCM 089 -Em 36 - Rothko Triptych []

DCM 090 - Phm 11- Sound Prints
DCM 091 - MPm 11 - Kontact Dance
DCM 092 - Dm 13 - 2nd & 3rd Inv for Dj.

[] DCM 093 -Em 37 - Ober []

DCM 094 - Dm 14 - 4th Inv Dj - Dm Sn no. 8
DCM 095 - MSEP 21 - Bela Whispers

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 planned 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.