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Richard Burdick's compositions with film.
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VISTA ONE
"Frozen" for horn and video tape, opus 166 |
At this point (January 2011 I have the the video done and the whole structure of the piece in standard music notation 25% completed score. SOON!
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Commissioned by Monica Martinez
The video, will have a shot of winter birds that will slowly rise to the top r. corner, and with that I think it'll fluctuate from frozen tree shots to snow shot . . . I have a minute of the music written . . . slowly.
- I worked for a while on a different idea, that I am not going to complete. We have had some amazing days of the trees covered in Horfrost So I have filmed two days of trees covered in beautiful frost. I think this will be great. The idea for instrument and video is that the musician sits in front of the screen, so the film is projected around you and gives sort-of an aura effect. I am back to my I Ching Scales and have randomly chosen two scales (44 & 62) I am writing a score with nine lines four above the solo and four below, each set of four is strictly in the tonality of one of the two scales. I could manipulate sound electronically, but I am thinking more in terms that this could be video with nine musicians including the horn solo if people want different versions, so I am sticking more to computer generated sounds that are sort of normal. Besides some bird sounds on the tape. Any suggestion yet? Oh the title : "Frozen, opus 166" for horn with video tape I am hoping for a piece about 8 minutes long.
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VISTA ONE FIRSTS:
+This is my first work with video tape
+This is the first work that the tempo has determined the scale. (I have the speeds of each key systematized so that the vibration rate of the tonic could set the tempo of the music)
+ Maybe not a first: I plotted out the form then used math to determined the length of each section
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