Cluster medicine - pianodrone #2

Train Sonor: For Marjan K. January, 2008


[07] Cluster medicine [pianodrone #2] [18:54]
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millimeters · [part I] for prepared acoustic guitar, Spongefork interface* [live electronics] and gurgle shells [09:19]**
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* Spongefork is a complete softsynth, sampler, live improvisation instrument, and soundfile processing application. The 2.* series has been completely rewritten to provide many new features and native Mac OS X support. SF's oscillators and interface are controllable via a unique XY based modulation controller, your computer keyboard, or by any MIDI device or application.

** (the sensation of slight things) "But it is the subtlest sensations of the slightest things that I live intensely. Perhaps this is due to my love of futility. Or maybe it's because of my concern for detail. But I'm inclined to believe — I can't say I know, for these are things I never bother to analyse — that it's because slight things, having absolutely no social or practical importance, are for that very reason absolutely free of sordid associations with reality. Slight things smack to me of unreality. The usless is beautiful because it's less real than the useful, which continues and extends, whereas the marvellously futile and the gloriously minuscule stay where and as they are, living freely and independently. The usless and the futile open up humbly aesthetic interludes in our real lives. What dreams and fond delights are stirred in my soul by the puny existence of a pin in a ribbon! What a pity for those who don't realize how important this is!" — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, p. 436



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"And yet, O Lord, we perceive intervals of times, and we compare them with themselves, and we say some are longer, others shorter. We even measure by how much shorter or longer this time may be than that; and we answer, 'That this is double or treble, while that is but once, or only as much as that.' But we measure times passing when we measure them by perceiving them; but past times, which now are not, or future times, which as yet are not, who can measure them? Unless, perchance, any one will dare to say, that that can be measured which is not. When, therefore, time is passing, it can be perceived and measured; but when it has passed, it cannot, since it is not." — The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustine, CHAP. XVI. TIME CAN ONLY BE PERCEIVED OR MEASURED WHILE IT IS PASSING.

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Train Sonor: For Marjan K. January, 2008


[01] For Marjan K. [excerpt one] [06:21]
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[02] For Marjan K. [excerpt two] [05:40]
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[03] For Marjan K. [excerpt three] [05:44]
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[06] Flute stream [09:54] · George Koehler, flute · Ralph Lichtensteiger, digital interface
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"I have heard from a learned man that the motions of the sun, moon, and stars constituted time, and I assented not. For why should not rather the motions of all bodies be time? What if the lights of heaven should cease, and a potter’s wheel run round, would there be no time by which we might measure those revolutions, and say either that it turned with equal pauses, or, if it were moved at one time more slowly, at another more quickly, that some revolutions were longer, others less so? Or while we were saying this, should we not also be speaking in time? Or should there in our words be some syllables long, others short, but because those sounded in a longer time, these in a shorter? God grant to men to see in a small thing ideas common to things great and small. Both the stars and luminaries of heaven are 'for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.' No doubt they are; but neither should I say that the circuit of that wooden wheel was a day, nor yet should he say that therefore there was no time." — Saint Augustine. THAT TIME IS A CERTAIN EXTENSION.

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Train Sonor, a work in progress. This collection of compositions follows Saint Augustine's motto: TIME CAN ONLY BE PERCEIVED OR MEASURED WHILE IT IS PASSING. — Saint Augustine.

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