Alex Garde, percussion

PROGRAM NOTE
Ramification is the final panel of my Triptych, coming after Negative Capability, for electric guitar, and Whispering lunar incantations, for prepared harp. All three pieces focus on the creation of an idiosyncratic, (relatively) unpitched sound world and emphasize gesture within a developing and evolving structure. Ramification is most concerned with different types of surfaces and branching paths/connections (ramifications) between them. Sometimes materials develop linearly along these paths, while jumping suddenly from one to the next at other times. My hope is that listening occurs on multiple levels of detail for both the performer and audience. Similar types of gestures (dragging vs scratching vs striking) occur on vastly different surfaces (gongs vs floor tom vs wood plank vs guiro vs chimes) with different implements (mallet vs superball vs mallet shaft vs brush vs nails), resulting in a range of drastically different sound qualities that seek to unify themselves, but may not always do so.
Ramification was composed for percussionist, Alex Garde, as part of the 2021 Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice. — HAB

Ramification (2021)

First test of a system of completely algorithmic chord progression and music composition.  

HARMONY TEST 5

A sacred congregation, an alchemical union of the opposites, a marriage of two poles. Unification of male with the female, Light with Darkness, a mystical conjunction between the forces of the Universe... A wonderful and great merging of the gods themselves.

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Hierosgamos

Sketch 1

Sketch 2

Notion (2016)

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL_cuUj_Pd0
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produced by EDEN

Music Video

Notion (prod. by EDEN)

No BS! Brass Band - Run Around

I have perfect pitch. Over the course of my schooling, I memorized the 12 tones used in most Western music. To help increase my accuracy when it comes to recognizing tuning and pitch, I created drones in the 24-TET system - a system that breaks the octave down into 24 equally-spaced pitches rather than the 12 found in standard Equal Temperament. Due to the nature of these tuning systems, they are in-tune with each other when A=440. The ability to recognize all of these pitches can serve those with perfect pitch by improving their own tuning during performance, and it can expand the ears to appreciate and play 24-TET music on its own terms.

At our best, humans can recognize differences in pitch of approx. 5-6 cents. As musicians, why not try to get there with some practice?

C Half-Sharp Drone

Alex Tschetter