Label: XI Records

アメリカ実験音楽の巨匠David BehrmanがPhill Niblockと共に監修した自身のソロ音源!!ベルギーでHenri Pousseurに師事、アメリカの作曲家でありコンピュータ音楽の先駆者として知られるDavid Behrman。当時氏が取り組んだ、ソロ・パフォーマーとリアルタイムで相互作用する様設計されたソフトウェアを用いた、数ある一連の作品の一つ1991年作[Unforeseen Events]。個別のミュート機能及び、演奏可能な3つのベルを備えたユーモラスな楽器"ミュータントランペット"が使用されており、単純なフレーズを織り交ぜたり重ね合わせたりする事に基づいた不思議な実験アンビエントを提示。名盤。







Unforeseen Events is one of many pieces Behrman has made with computer software designed to interact in real time with a solo performer. The four sections recorded here were made specifically with Ben Neill's performance style in mind. The electronic timbres are intended to complement the sounds of his instrument --the admirable and humorous mutantrumpet, with its three separately-mutable and playable bells. Refractive Light consists of three small pieces based on an interweaving and overlapping of simple phrases. A musician strikes pitches which trigger responses in the form of sustained tones. The tones die out after a few seconds. While a tone is on it deflects the pitches of other "on" tones, so that harmonic changes occur at the on-and-off edges of overlappping layers. The idea can give rise to a kind of fanning or breathing rhythm which adapts itself to different styles of playing, and to a harmonic vocabulary with dozens or scores of family members.