Darshan with a Pelican (2020-2021) CD 106

Warren Burt

Scarlet Aardvark CD 106

Title: Darshan with a Pelican (2020) and Petal Blossom Contemplates the Five Million Feral Hogs of Texas (2021)

Darshan with a Pelican was commissioned by the GRM, Paris, for their Acousmonium concert series. It’s a 21 minute long piece with 40 channels of sound, mixed down to stereo here. Also in the album is “Petal Blossom Contemplates the Five Million Feral Hogs of Texas,” a 41 minute long live piece performed on Dec 10, 2021 for Liquid Architecture’s Melbourne Music Week. The album also comes with complete liner notes and a pdf copy of a paper from the 2020 Australasian Computer Music Conference describing the techniques used in making “Darshan.”

Track List

1) Darshan with a Pelican (21:05)

2) Petal Blossom Contemplates the Five Million Feral Hogs of Texas (41:17)

Keywords:

musique concrete

algorithmic composition

Acousmonium

interactive composition

Live electronics

Virtual ANS

visual synthesis

spectral drawing

Dhalang MG composition program

Antonio Tuzzi NYSTHI modules

Thumbjam

GRM Spaces

Lemur virtual keyboard

microtonal scales

Spatial music

Bart Hopkin Miago Trod

SoundIron

Liquid Architecture

GRM Paris

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