Michael  Duffey

113 Composers

chamber works, improvs, and fixed media

A lifeless object, alive (Dysarthria) - Duo Gelland

Drift, 201504-06(mining IIb)performed at Studio Z, May 19th, 2019 by Zeitgeist.

Drift, 201504-06 (mining IIb)

First performance of new version. Recorded live in Minneapolis.

You Nearly Had Me Robbed, for string quartet (2011-14) Lux

once white in shadow - overture (Lux)

First performance, February 8, 2015.
Bass drum, amplified brake drum and mounted toy piano tines, processed field recording.

Arrastra, 20140825 (mining I)- Bill Solomon - Live

First performance, Ensemble Dal Niente, Studio Z, St. Paul, MN, July 29, 2015.
Oboe, horn, harp, viola, and electronics. 

Drift, 201504-06 (mining IIa)

Pinning A Shred

Comma was written to commemorate the 60th birthday of James Dillon at the request of Noriko Kawai.  
	The title of the work is a double entendre, referring both to a grammatical punctuation mark, but also to a very small interval in tuning theory.  
While the piano is tuned normally, the electronic track cycles through a chain of the virtually pure fifths of 665-tone equal temperament.  Played on its own, the electronic track progresses entirely by perfect consonances; and yet because of the gradual accumulation of small tuning discrepancies, it reaches unfamiliar microtonal intervals against the pianist’s recurrent A.  After cycling through 665 fifths, the tuning of the electronics eventually realigns itself with that of the piano, terminating the process.  


Comma By Joshua Musikantow

slow/noise/tone for solo electric guitar

composer/sound artist/performer - more music at www.shieldyoureyes.bandcamp.com and
https://ab-scheid.bandcamp.com

Drift, 201504-06 (mining IIa)

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