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Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)singing in a tree, in the middle of a banana field. Recorded close to the village of Paso de Telaya in the state of Veracruz. 

ORTF microphone setup, Schoeps CCM4 x 2 in a Cinela windscreen
Sound Devices MixPre
Original Recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit
Sound Ref: MX-200402-03
GPS: 20.156221, -96.873653
Recorded during a residency at Casa Proal

Montezuma oropendola bird call

https://lorainejames.bandcamp.com/album/bangers-and-mash

So Much Time

mezzanine void

Antichain

There are fundamentally 713 distinct ways to partition the aggregate (a.k.a chromatic scale)into four trichords.  Of these, 290 have no trichord type repeated and these I'm calling the tetra-trichords.  Call two tetra-trichords neighbors if they share at least three trichords types.  

This piece follows a loop, from neighbor-to-neighbor, through most of the space of tetra-trichords, 288 of them.  The two omitted tetra-trichords only neighbor one-another, so refuse to play along.  They deserve a piece all their own (I'll get to it!).

So this is fundamentally "twelve-tone" (but not row) music, as in all twelve tones are more or less constantly active and in equal proportions.  But thinking of the trichords as the-new-notes, the aggregate becomes a kind of super-chord, and the whole piece a super-four-part-chorale, with consecutive super-chords always sharing a common "tone" (actually, a common trichord) for good (super)-voice-leading.  

So this is twelve-tone music with no direct input from common practice, yet very audibly working with analogous ideas.

My Travels Through (Most of) Tetra-trichord Space, for flute, clarinet, bassoon and celesta

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Ellen Phan - Policy

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Abrasive electronics from London's north. 

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XLR8R Podcast 667: Loraine James

Excerpt from Side A of Cop Tears: "Theodor Adorno - Piano Works", to be released on Reading Group (RG18). More info and ordering at www.readinggroup.co/rg18.html

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matt earnshaw