August 6, 2015 § Leave a comment
A video of a performance by Elizabeth Hilliard of logic ballad #2: The guarded tourist makes the guide the test. It is a dramatic ballad built entirely from three-note phrases related to each other by permutational processes. This is intended to be the enaction of a constantly developing thought process.The text was assembled from a pool of 25 words:
across awake coast continue detonate eyes faded fear from hid if into latitude night paradise reefs since slowly story swung together turned underneath view you.
The basic structure is the following:
Caption
Setting the scene
First Action
Aria/Reflection
Second Action
Memory of Initial Scene
The background to this piece was my interest in improvised process music; more information on this can be found on the Compositions/Improvised Process Music page.
David Bremner 
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