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The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon

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The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon

Sonic Circuits XI

Innova | INNOVA 120 | 2006

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The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon

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Composers: Philip BlackburnViv CorringhamMark EdenJeff FeddersenAnnie GosfieldRobert NormandeauJanek Schaefer

The Rhythmicon was a musical keyboard instrument built in 1931 by Leon Theremin at the request of composer/theorist Henry Cowell. Each key of the Rhythmicon played a repeated tone, proportional in pitch and rhythm to the overtone series (the second key played twice as high and twice as fast as the first key. The third key played three times higher and repeated three times faster then the first key, etc.). The Virtual Rhythmicon was commissioned in 2003 by American Public Media for its Peabody-award-winning web and radio series American Mavericks. The online version -- http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/rhythmicon/ -- extends the functionality of Cowell’s design and uses digital technology rather than rotating optical discs. For this Innova disc the Sonic Circuits festival commissioned several composers to make works in which the instrument features prominently. These works are complemented by two others chosen for the Festival’s final year of presentations.

1

Janek Schaefer

All Bombing is Terrorism (Schaefer)

12m00s
2

Annie Gosfield

A Sideways Glance from an Electric Eye (Gosfield)

7m35s
3

Philip Blackburn

Henry and Mimi at the Y (Blackburn)

4m34s
4

Jeff Feddersen

This Time I Want Them All (Feddersen)

5m48s
5

Matthew Burtner

Spectral for 0 (Burtner)

4m42s
6

Matthew Burtner

Spectral for 60 (Burtner)

4m27s
7

Viv Corringham

Eggcup, Teapot, Rhythmicon (Corringham)

6m15s
8

Mark Eden

Cremation Science (Eden)

5m33s
9

Robert Normandeau

Chorus (Normandeau) (2002)

14m00s

total duration

65m08s

UPC / EAN 726708612023

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