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Music from SEAMUS — volume 10

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Music from SEAMUS — volume 10

SEAMUS | EAM 2001 | 2001

CD not in catalogue

4. Adrian Moore: Superstrings (1998-99) 12m30s eam_2001-1.4 | 10290 |

Composer: Adrian Moore

Premiere: March 9, 2000, SEAMUS “Acousma-Tex Conference”, University of North Texas (Denton, Texas, USA)

To my father

Superstrings uses natural string sounds: those made from the piano and harpsichord, predominantly harmonics and gestures made by scraping the strings with the hands and other objects. There are also passages where these instruments perform in the manner in which they were originally conceived with single notes, clusters, strings of pseudo-random walks and harmonic passages being played either by hand or with the help of a Yahama Disklavier.

Superstrings resides in a world of pitched and pulsed sections and drifts from the real into the unreal. The sectional nature of the work is highlighted by two similar but contrasting pulsed passages ‘colored’ and articulated with other sounds. Repetition of other material leads to further understanding of the hierarchies of sound that made up the work.

Superstrings as a word relates to the scientific theory of matter. All matter is made up of superstrings that are multi-dimensional and wave-like in nature. Imagine a nebula where energy and matter collide in a sea of light and heat. The soundworld of Superstrings pulses with this raw energy.

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Superstrings was realized in 1998-99 at the University of Sheffield Sound Studios (USSS, UK) and premiered on March 9, 2000 during the SEAMUS “Acousma-Tex Conference” at the University of North Texas, Denton (USA). It was first recorded in 2001 on the CD Music from SEAMUS, vol 10 (EIM-2001).

6. Elainie Lillios: Arturo (1998) 13m39s eam_2001-1.6 | 20458 |

Composer: Elainie Lillios

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