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Greg FoxSinister Symphony (November 20, 2005)

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A CD album from winter 2005 by Greg Fox. Not the most cheerful of collections by any means but some fairly developed explorations of the organic application of chance material. Sounds a bit like parts of Stockhausen's "Licht" in places but overall it's quiet and bangy.

If you think you might already need a wee, I'd suggest you avoid "Trickle Schmickle" because it has the distinct habit of arousing need.


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Artist/Composer: Greg Fox
Date: 2005-11-20
Keywords: Greg Fox; Free Music; Stockhausen; John Cage; Avant-Garde; Contemporary; Post-modernism; Collage; Electro-acoustic; Home-made

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial


Notes

This is quite a representative selection of my work. There are three longish pieces (24, 18 and 15 minutes) and three shorter ones. The first two tracks are very concerned with form, and take artificial approaches to the imposition of form on what starts out as random material. In the case of 'Isomorphism' the form is based on the "Arithmoquine" method used in Doug Hofstadter's book "Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" where a sentence is extended on both sides by nesting levels of meaning, eg. "The sentence "The sentence is not valid" is not valid"
In the case of 'Organic Doo-doos' chance-based material is moulded to form mirrored shapes and uses the kind of memory techniques made popular by Morton Feldman in the mid-to-late 20th century. 'Sinister Symphony' is a much more rhythmically comprehensible piece on account of the almost completely steady series of (fake) piano chords running through it and the repeated motifs. The percussion part is intended to undermine that effect such that focus 'comes and goes' a bit. It's sort of a parody of 'symphonic computer music' such as is found in television/film. 'Trickle Schmickle' is a tape cut-up piece with recorder canons (again arithmoquined and golden sectioned in places (arbitrarily)) and 'The Leaden Echo' is a brief selection of juvenilia for comic relief with hideous piano-roll impersonations over the top and a sick recital of (only the first half of) Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem "The Leaden Echo" (ie. not the golden echo - but then there's no golden sections in this part of the CD!)

If you're fairly new to my work then "Organic Doo-doos" wouldn't be a bad place to start really.

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Reviewer: squirrel99 - 2.00 out of 5 stars2.00 out of 5 stars - January 25, 2008
Subject: Sinister Symphony
The track "Barcarola" is nice.
-Squirrel


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