Avant Garde Project torrent 156 is up and running

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AGP156 continues our series of US electronic music with works by the composers John Melby and James Tenney, collected from three LPs on the CRI label (SD 528, 310, and 364).

The works by Melby all involve computer-synthesized tape set against live performers. In his Concerto for Violin, English Horn, and Computer-Synthesized Tape, the electronic and instrumental sounds at the beginning sound to my ear altogether unrelated to each other and grow gradually more integrated over the course of the concerto. In 91 plus 5, by contrast, the timbres of the brass quintet fit the electronic sounds more naturally throughout.

Saxony by James Tenney is for saxophone played into a tape-delay system such as Pauline Oliveros used for I of IV in AGP58. The choice of melodies by the saxophone is largely open-ended, but should be restricted to the first 32 harmonic partials of a low E-flat. The upper 16 of those comprise a division of one octave into 16 unequal intervals. My heart goes out to the saxophonist David Mott for having managed that.

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