So Much Sky Pt 1

Last Farewell 09 18 14 Mix

Nagging Doubts

Nebula

Ambient work for guitar, woodwinds, tuned percussion, electric bass and electric piano. Part of Daniel Buckley's "Prevailing Westerlies" series. Copyright 2015 Saguaro Furnace Music, all rights reserved.

Desert Nocturne 2015-01

From Daniel Buckley's "Totentanzes" (Dances of Death). The Totentanzes are dance music works intended as building blocks for an eventual opera on the Jonestown tragedy. This excerpt features a young boy describing for Father Jones what he would do to his grandfather (Mr. Tupper) if he could get hold of him. "I think that I should umm, cut Mr. Tupper up real good," he tells Jones, who squeals with demonic laughter at the suggestion. Sampling keyboards were used to dissect the spoken phrase and turn it into rhythmic segments.

02 16 14 I Cut Mix

Ambient work for samples zither and electric piano inspired by the new moon at sunset. Composed and performed by Daniel Buckley. Copyright 2016, Saguaro Furnace Music/Daniel Buckley Arts, all rights reserved.

New Moon 02 09 16

Quiet Before the Storm

In 1996, at he request of David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet, I composed a four movement string quartet using audio from tapes found at Jonestown following the massacre there in November of 1978. Each movement focuses on a particular story. In the second movement Father Jones is berating an old man who would like to make a trip home to visit his family.

Daniel Buckley Jonetown Quartet, second movement, sampler realization

In 1996, at the request of David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet, I wrote a four-movement work for tape and string quartet, using audio tapes found in Jonestown following the massacre there in 1978. Each movement captures a particular Jonestown story. The final movement uses material from one of the White Nights - basically rehearsals for the final mass suicide of the Jonestown followers. Here Father Jones is trying to convince his flock that elements of the U.S. armed forces are waiting in the jungle at the edge of the camp to come in and attack everyone. He taunts the unseen menace in the darkness and whips his followers into a frenxy.

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