An 8-voice canon in 12-tone, quarter-tone, and eighth-tone tunings. Each voice is delayed by a constantly changing amount. 

Elastic Canon 2

A short, repetitive 4-voice canon in multiple tempos and tunings.

Elastic Canon 1

One of four pieces with this name, each featuring very active harp lines on a bed of leisurely moving sustained sounds. The pieces revolve around a primary mode, in this case the Indian mode Bhairav. Others may come into play, though, including Messaien symmetric modes. 

Outskirts Of Memory - Bhairav

Mosaic of solo and stormy background in 20-tone equal temperament, with assorted liquid/electrical noises.

Microtonal Landscape (20 - Tone Octave)

One of four pieces with this name, each featuring very active harp lines on a bed of leisurely moving sustained sounds. The pieces revolve around a primary mode, in this case the wholetone mode. Others may come into play, though, including other Messaien symmetric modes. 

Outskirts Of Memory - Wholetone

Intermezzo

Piano capering and conversation. Occasional shifts of microtonal scales.

Flumes

Sort of an uptempo, syncopated gamelan treatment of a Japanese folk melody, played on slide guitar. 

Palace Of Birds

Mosaic of solo piano and stormy background in 60-tone equal temperament, with quiet noises.

Microtonal Landscape (60 - Tone Octave)

One of four pieces with this name, each featuring very active harp lines on a bed of leisurely moving sustained sounds. The pieces revolve around a primary mode, in this case the Indian mode Todi. Others may come into play, though, including Messaien symmetric modes. 

Outskirts Of Memory - Todi

Jim Alexander is a composer, guitarist, and cellist. He writes acoustic and electronic music for dance, film, and live performance. His electronic music is often concerned with microtonality – in this case, scales finer than 12 tones per octave – as well as collage and timbral transformation. He mixes western ideas with non-western. He received an MA in composition from Mills College and plays processed cello in the electro-acoustic ensemble Cone of Confusion.

Jim Alexander

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