River of Longing, by Joel Taylor

River of Longing

by Joel Taylor

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This work was created with a computer. A program that I designed in 2012, the TreeSpirit v1.2, a Max patch, was used to generate the pitches and rhythms. The 6 midi note-streams that the patch produced was used to drive 2 instantiations of Pianoteq, a physical-modeling program that emulates acoustic keyboards, and the resulting keyboard sounds were then processed with a granular synthesis time-stretching program which transformed them into sounds more resembling voices, strings, and winds. This was then processed with Izotope's Ozone 5 for polishing.

River of Longing is composed in 22 EDO. The full gamut of 22 tones per octave is used throughout, but a decatonic (10 note) scale is the basis for harmonic and melodic motion in the work.

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released September 17, 2015

Album art Copyright Joel Taylor, 2015

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joel taylor Quito, Ecuador

Joel Taylor is a composer/improvisor/programmer who works with a wide variety of electronic and acoustic media. He performs on analog synths, computers, keyboards, shakuhachi, suling, flute, and percussion, and has composed concert music for orchestra, gamelan, and various chamber ensembles. ... more

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