Unforeseen Events

Track Listings

1. View Finder

2. Fishing for Complements

3. Witch Grass

4. Canyon

5. Harbinger

6. Crisscrossed Eights

7. Ein Glaesele Warems

Editorial Reviews
John Rockwell, The New York Times
“No electronic composer has made more poetic uses of the now-common interaction of live musician and electronic circuitry.”

Michael Draine, Sound Choice
Arhythmic electronic pulses invest the work with warmth and beauty I’d have thought beyond the capacity of computer music.

Album Description
Unforeseen Events is the latest of many pieces David Behrman has made with computer software designed to interact in real time with a solo performer. The electronic timbres are intended to complement the sounds of Ben Neill’s 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 which die out after a few seconds, deflecting 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.

Unforeseen Events

Tracks:

View Finder
Fishing for Complements
Witch Grass
Canyon
Harbinger
Crisscrossed Eights
Ein Glaesele Warems

Album Description

Unforeseen Events is the latest of many pieces David Behrman has made with computer software designed to interact in real time with a solo performer. The electronic timbres are intended to complement the sounds of Ben Neill's 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 which die out after a few seconds, deflecting 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.

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Unforeseen Events
D. Behrman
Manufacturer: XI Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000JWQT
Release Date: 1999-07-20

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