Vivid Festival / 107 Presents
Pretty Gritty #19: The Glistening

Stereo mix of a 6-channel installation.

http://www.pretty-gritty.net/june11_2017.html

Photo by Belinda Joy Sheekey

Pretty Gritty #19: Glistening

2a Drones

2b Ending

Drift is a free fall album consisting of three compositions invoking a sense of hovering expansion. Deeply spacious yet tightly compacted sound movements create holding patterns that slowly shift and evolve.

Cycles fall in and out of sync while atmospheres envelope time, appearing on the periphery before being subsumed back into space. The compositions utilize modified alto saxophone with spring reverb attachment, synthesizers, percussion, field recordings and electronic processing.

The saxophone is played with an acoustic spring reverberation preparation to produce multiple feedback tones, pitch beating and metallic distortion. Using sampling and pitch shifting techniques, the instrument and its presence of breath act as the glue that binds the pieces.

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In a Binary Star, 2 stars orbit around their common Barycenter.

"If two stars should really be situated very near each other, and at the same time so far insulated as not to be materially affected by the attractions of neighbouring stars, they will then compose a separate system, and remain united by the bond of their own mutual gravitation towards each other. This should be called a real double star; and any two stars that are thus mutually connected, form the binary sidereal system."
Sir William Herschel, 1802.

2 tones of more or less equal volume move very slowly in pitch towards and away from each other in orbits of glissandi.

The sound waves interact, sometimes eclipsing the other and creating disturbances which we hear, through a drum, as rhythm.

From interstellar space a saxophone joins in (in the tradition).

Binary Star Rythyms With Interstellar Saxophone

6b Split Clari (short)

Fragments from a proposal for Klangraum (Day 5)

actualised with 
Cat Lamb 
Rebecca Lane 
Derek Shirley 
Johnny Chang

Binary Star Rythyms With Interstellar Saxophone

Jim-Denley

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