The Pasterales for Wind Group - Phase music, Phm 12 - my 112th album. Two tape montages, iterating sound as two new works for ‘Wind Group.’

A bubbly, cycling dream of Wind group Pasterale - soft pastoral tones and intonation. Not a cloud in the sky on an endless summer’s day. Whilst beneath it all, tape-loops whir and turn about. Did I shoot straight past my own definition of music with this - ‘that music is Sound Considerable as time and process’ ? Well Possibly - but -great care and rehearsal were taken to arrange this result - so in that sense it was quite deliberate. In that sense it is ‘Considerable as Time and Process’ - rather as ’Human Agency.’ If it were meticulously notated the result would be the same let us get over how it was com - Posed - how it was op -posed in time and proportion and begin with the fact of the result. I actually like it - it has Pasterale - tender colouring over two vast canvasses. Dose art imitate music - dose music imitate Art ?

Instructive tough it was - retrospectively, I’d drawn a line under this methodology and closed this Genre - the Phase music, Phm . The first of the five Genres to close. I didn’t know it at the time but this was the beginning of the end. There were then 30 albums still to come in the four remaining Genres - toped by a fortuitous invitation from the British Library to compile an Edition.


The Outer Blue Album Group - Phm Indices


An early reorganization of my music research interests had 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 realised by tape looping and timing. By Convention Phm.

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, Metal Percussion music, or MPm. The third of five is the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP. The last genre is Electronic music, Em, taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Album numbers 96 to the End [that is to my last numbered album] - form my Fifth ‘Group’ - a 5th time division across my Genres, my Outer Blue Group. The End being what it will be, but I have no plans, at the time of writing, in August 2020, to number any further albums, the given End being 142. This all builds on the foundational 'Blue Cherry Group' [where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest] and the big 'New Horizon Group' - [where I explored to see where these five genres were leading me]. There then seemed to be a ‘band of gold’ across my discography. My Golden Band Group, that mark a particularly successful time for me. The albums that follow that, 76 to the End, are a ‘Blue Horizon’ - after the phrase ‘blue sky research’ - the ‘Blue Horizon Group.’ For convenience, I divided this Huge area into the Inner and the Outer Blue. So my Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Group. Then a Fifth and last Group builds upon that - my outer Blue Horizon - or Outer Blue Group.

There is only one Phm album in the Outer Blue Group, the last of its kind -

[] Album Phm 12, The Pasterales for Wind Group. Two tape montages, iterating sound as two new works for ‘Wind Group.’ Instructive tough it was - retrospectively, I’d drawn a line under this methodology and closed this Genre. The first of the five Genres to close - I didn’t know it at the time but this was the beginning of the end. There were then 30 albums still to come in the four remaining Genres - toped by a fortuitous invitation from the British Library to compile an Edition.


Outer Blue Group - Phm []

DCM 096 Em 38 -- Blue Dark Marine
DCM 097 MSEP 22 -- Sn for Solo Vc 1, 2
DCM 098 Dm 15 -- Dm Sn no 9. 9
DCM 099 MSEP 23 -- Sn & St for S. Vc
DCM 100 Dm 16 -- W Dan. 8 -14
DCM 101 Em 39 -- Dodecette
DCM 102 MSEP 24 -- Luigi
DCM 103 Dm 17 -- Dm Sn no.10
DCM 104 MPm 12 -- Hamermusic
DCM 105 MSEP 25 -- Consort m. for Strings
DCM 106 MPm 13 -- 45’23 - Mp solo
DCM 107 Dm 18 -- Zen Yen Zen
DCM 108 Dm 19 -- Metrognomics
DCM 109 MSEP 26 -- Nabucco - Om
DCM 110 EM 40 -- Profusion
DCM 111 Em 41 -- Cant for P C

[] DCM 112 Phm 12 -- Past for wind gr []

DCM 113 Arkiv -- Arkiv
DCM 114 Em 42 -- Funeral Music
DCM 115 MSEP 27 -- TUOE [Sym 2]
DCM 116 MSEP 28 -- Sin Vit [Sym 3]
DCM 117 MSEP 29 -- Symphony 4
DCM 118 DM 20 -- Table music
DCM 119 Dm 21 -- Konnyek
DCM 120 MSEP 30 -- Codasolo
DCM 121 Dm 22 -- 5th Inv for Dj
DCM 122 Dm 23 -- Drum Mantra
DCM 123 MSEP 31 -- Symphony 5
DCM 124 Dm 24 -- 6th Inv for Dj
DCM 125 MPm 14 -- Footfall A & B
DCM 126 MPm 15 -- Inv for Steel Casing
DCM 127 MPm 16 -- Imp in 4 and 3 Pts
DCM 128 MPm 17 -- Six Sns. for Metal P.
DCM 129 MPm 18 -- Inv for Industrial Unit
DCM 130 MPm 19 -- Now is N. t. T. f Dan
DCM 131 MPm 20 -- Parellelia
DCM 132 MSEP 32 -- Organum
DCM 133 MPm 21 -- Perfor in Plastic
DCM 134 Em 43 -- Geut - B Version
DCM 135 Em 44 -- Vib. Blue Light
DCM Ark Em Arkiv -- What nu. Added to
DCM 136 Dm 25 -- Sn for S. Dm 11 &12
DCM 137 MSEP 33 -- They Make Music
DCM 138 Dm 26 -- Double Up + Per PP
DCM Ark Dm Arkiv -- Sometime Live
DCM 139 Dm 27 -- In an English Pa Ch
DCM 140 MPm 22 -- Quarlium
DCM 141 MSEP 34 -- A Little Less than K.
DCM 142 MSEP 35 -- Gregorious A & B
DCM 143 MSEP 36 -- Entangled A.B & C


The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2020. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

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