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Canticle for Large Bell - Rh 52

from Canticle for Large Bell by julianbroadhurst Em

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Canticle for Large Bell - Rh 52. This is a signature piece for me, my world turned about it's axis with this piece, as I had access to a local Church Tower. I was delighted with the distressed condition of the outcome ! This is where I think my electronic music begins ! Ever since I heard [it must have been ] a Jonathan Harvey Piece involving bells and Electronics, and the [muffled ?] bells at the funeral of Lady Dianna - I have had an insatiable passion to record and manipulate bell harmonics. So why 'Canticle' ? Well a Canticle is a devotional work for voices, so superficially there is a pun on a name, for a secular work for a Church Bell, having a religious aspect, but it goes much deeper than that. A Canticle is a work for voices, and struck, tuned metal is said to have a 'Voice'. I have then co-opted the Word 'Canticle' to name also a secular piece for the Voices [or Voice] of 'Struck metal'. I would do the same thing again in the pieces I made for Coventry Cathedral, 'The Coventry Canticles', which also work with Church Bells, and again in the Vast 'Rothko Triptych' some years later.

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from Canticle for Large Bell, released July 16, 2014

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