A 12 tone piece which I wanted to sound as easy to hear as possible.
I wrote the bones of this piece at the Banff Centre for the Arts Canada, in 1993 where i had won a month scholarship shortly after completing my undergraduate music degree. I wrote a piece for double bass, vibraphone, trumpet and electronics, which was performed at the end of the residency. The piece was called Us Two Too and as yet i haven’t uploaded the original recording.. I still have the music and some of the recorded sounds which i developed in the studio. I was trying to construct music that made sense, and seemed to not be too dissonant, using all the notes of the 12 note scale. So i divided them into 3 groups of 4 notes… 5ths piled on top of themselves, group 1 (- D flat, A flat, E flat, B flat) and group 2 (- G, D, A, E), and Dim 5ths group 3 (- C, G flat, B, F). I organised the music so group 1 notes can interchange with group 3 notes and Group 2 notes can also interchange with group 3 notes but group 1 and 2 cannot share notes.
Here i improvise with those groupings in mind, especially the long note 5ths that ascend a semitone each, creating a haunting quality to the music.
This piece was written for the 121212 project available here. http://livelooping.bandcamp.com/album…
Video by Psiclick, live sound painting unique technique.