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Elevation Phase

by julianbroadhurstphasem

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DCM 012 - Elevation Phase - Phase music, Phm 2 - my 12th album. The Second of three volumes of the Collected Phm studies.

Phase music, as I define it, Is one in which tapes or loops of tape, are offset against one another, at a given time interval, so that their complexes of content will ride apart from one another and ride back into sync, over a period given by the offset. They are said to 'Phase', rather, to go in and out of Phase. Over a short phase, the effect is predictable, over longer phases however, whist necessarily automatic, the result is, if the material is sufficiently complex, seemingly unpredictable. That is to say it can result in material, and musical effects, 'greater', literally, than the sum of its parts. One must choose one’s material carefully, and off set to phase with even more caution. The trick is to play back and re-cut the phase, as many times as is necessary, until the result interests the ear, then as music. In that sense, you can be said to have composed it - that is that you derive the result you want. Sometimes though, Nature surprises you - then I'd say I've been 'Given' it – as I often did in Art.

Door music 2 – Rh 98. Door music is another two part set, the frame for which, again become the first Part - taking the precedent from Mechanical Phase music 1 and 2 [on the previous album Phm 1]. Here though the Frame is not hung with another layer of phasing but rather hung with a process, to give a whippy atmospheric. This is music prescribed from the doors of sections and lifts in a busy hospital.

Lift music 1 – Rh 99. The expectation now, with the lift music, was that it would also be a two part set, following the previous Phm studies. Here though, the first piece is not a frame, that became a Work serendipitously - rather it was concieved as Work in itself, from the off. With some processing. the sound source is still obviously a Lift door, struggling with age – again in a busy Hospital.

Lift music 2 – Rh 100. Derrived but not obviously so from Rh 99, it is an altogether a more complex afair.

Elevation Phase – Rh 101. A stand alone work that follows from the Lift music, elegantly Completing the cycle - where the lift door has transformed almost in an incoming tide.


An early reorganization of my music research interest defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Phase music; Phm - music derived from Tape Loops and Phase timing – by convention - Phm.

Albums 11 to 15 are the first five Phm albums, placed in a block, one of 5 blocks, placed like books on a shelf. in an in an overarching 'Group' of my first 27albums. Five Blocks for the Five Tranches - as they were founded (more of less) - five sets of studies and pieces, as my Foundational Group 'Blue Cherry' [after a friend]. The foundation stone the rest of my music is built on - in four further Groups.

The Five Phm albums in the Blue Cherry Group are: three volumes of quite advanced studies – Phm 1 Mechanical Phase music; Phm 2 Elevation Phase ; and phm 3 Mechanical Clock music; with two large scale works – Phm 4 Click Track Toe and Phm 5 Jove.

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, MPm. The third of of five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing - by convention – Phm.

The DCM album numbers are volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my works, in order of Completion.

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released July 31, 2014

Julian Broadhurst - Field recording, Composition, Realisation and Mastering at Drum studio Phase lab.

The Drum Studio Phase Lab was an area in my old studio reserved for this type of work.

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