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The musical compositions of Richard Burdick

Opus 44:

Opus 44 "Moments When We See. . . " for horn and tape

 

This work was constructed in the electronic studio at California State University @ Hayward in 1981. With supervision from Tony Gnazzo and William Shannon.
The Horn part, which is largely sustained multi-phonics was added in December 1987. The multi-phonics to a great degree sound more “electronic” than acoustic The work creates an “other world” environment, The title refers to the moments when the two sound sources come together. In general the piece presents two independent entities.

 

Written: December 197 on CD6

Performances: 1/12/92 Davis Arts Center, 8/24/89 First Unitarian Church of Berkeley.on CD6

 

Sound samples:

Opening

 

Middle Multiphonic sample

 

 

A final published version is now ready (January 2010)

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Richard Burdick horn and tape piceee, opus 44

This work can be found at the Canadian Music Center Libraries.

 This work is registered with ASCAP
  the ASCAP work ID is: 430414901