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Matt Bengtson premieres Allen McCullough's Piano Sonata No.2.  Recorded live, February 19, 2017; Fowler Hall, Purdue University

Piano Sonata 2

Imagined Artifacts and Surprise Reveal – Jonathan Santore – Program Notes

(NOTE: To experience the Surprise Reveal and a gradual realization about everything that precedes it, do NOT read past the SPOILERS BELOW! notice later in these notes before listening -- scroll slowly!)

I composed Imagined Artifacts and Surprise Reveal for the multimedia installation Person of Interest, which was shown at the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University in February, 2019. For this installation, several artists came together to create works through which we told the life story of an invented “influencer” who ostensibly lived on the periphery of the arts scene in New York City in the second half of the 20th Century. 

I took this work as an opportunity to inhabit the compositional personae of four composers I greatly admire who were all active in New York during that period, and all of whom traversed the boundary between acoustic and electric/ electronic/digital music in some pioneering way. All the music in this work, which was created using either commercially available digital samples or digital recordings of the human voice, models processes and textures that these four pioneers achieved pre-digitally through remarkable persistence, labor, and vision.

Each of the first four movements was inspired by a historical event that took place during the years 1962-1984. The fifth movement references a composition from the late 20th Century that became a foundational work of early social media culture, and which contributes significantly to the musical and textual content of the first four movements.

0:00 – I – “I Will Not Surrender You” (BD)
Inspired by a 1962 performance at an alternative FM station in New York City

2:13 – II – Here for the Truth (SR) 
Inspired by the Artists’ Occupation at the 1968 Milan Triennale. English translation of Italian text:
We will not betray you, comrades!
We will not betray the trust you have placed in us!
We will remain here with you until the end!
 
We will not know tears, but triumph!
We will remain, united and strong!
We will make our stand, here, for the truth!

6:29 – III – Menjaga Selamanya (PG)
Inspired by the 1975 supression by the Indonesian Army of the East Timor Independence Movement; “Menjaga selamanya” translates from Indonesian as “holding forever” or “eternal keeping.”

10:34 – IV – Easter Eggs (LA)
Inspired by the 1984 Supreme Court decision in Lynch v. Donnelly, which ruled that religious displays on public property were not unconstitutional.

13:55 – V – Reveal (LA)
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It’s a RickRoll! It’s a great big RickRoll! Texts in Dylanesque first movement and Reichian/phasey second movement, title and musical material in Glassian third movement, and musical material in Andersonian fourth and fifth movements all taken from/derived from/based on/retold versions of aspects of “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Earlier program notes absolutely true as well. Special thanks to Marcia Santore for vocal artistry in fourth and fifth movements, and text of fifth movement.

Imagined Artifacts And Surprise Reveal

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