Beriom 1 - 3, Phase music, Phm 10 - my 82nd album. Compositional studies after a fragment from Berio - the first parts of the Beriom series.
Beriom 1 - 3 - Rh 319 - 321. A Radical music for the circular breathing of Six Trombones - playing in the round, a thread of music after a fragment from Berio - ‘Beri - Om’ I declare, in honour and homage of the great man. A Primal Rhythm emerges - never settling, always moving - passing the rhythm around the ring - here recorded by Bone Circle. Three arrangements of the material provide a Kaleidoscope of circularity.
Using Bonecircle to record War Skies Over London - Rh 322 I then turned to Berio in the set Beriom 4 - 7 and the Beriom series began.
The Beriom Series - in three Generations
Numbers 1- 3 were originally intended to be a stand alone set - but a second experiment, this time with 5 and 6 flutes, became Beriom 4 - 7, and these formed an iconic bedrock for a series of vast electronic Landscapes in 5 further cycles, looking ever harder at the material. These give a series of 12 in all. A number beloved by me, as an Artist, years before, in numerous sets of 12 pictures.
The Beriom Series, of 12 pieces - over 8 hours - on 8 albums - are all after fragments from Berio.’ They fall into three ‘generations.’ The ‘Foundational’ - numbers 1 - 3 and 4 - 7.’ Then a mid generation - the ‘Fluid Projections’ - numbers 8 & 9. With a last generation of numbers 10, 11 and 12, that are rigorous and testing. I am testing the material to destruction (all but) - in the search for Music, as ‘a consideration of Sound, Time and Process’. Searching for my Inner Self.
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 76 to 95 form my fourth ‘Group’ - a 4th time division across my Genres, my Inner Blue Group. This builds on both 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 Groups. So the Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Horizon - or Inner Blue Group.
There are four Phm albums in the Inner Blue Group - Phm 8 - 11.
[] Album Phm 8 is Deep Pink and it most certainly is - the Pinkest of albums in a blue cover.
[] Album Phm 9 is Beriom 1 - 3, for 6 trombones, a Bonecircle. The first three pieces, of 12, in the Beriom Series - an homage to Berio.
[] Album Phm 10, a double album, is Beriom 4 - 7 - for 4 and 5 flutes, in two sets of two - the next four pieces of the Beriom series.
[] Album Phm 11 Sound Prints - are three static lines in contemplation of a printed surface.
DCM 079 - Em 30 - Haus music
DCM 080 - Em 31 - Magic lily music
DCM 081 - MPm 10 - 1st and 2nd Da Su for Mp
[] DCM 082 -Phm 9 - Beriom 1 - 3 (6 Tromb.) []
DCM 083 - MSEP 20 - War Skies Over London
[] DCM 084 -Phm 10 - Beriom 4 - 7 (4 & 5 Fl) []
DCM 085 - Em 32 - Beriom 8
DCM 086 - Em 33 - Beriom 9
DCM 087 - Em 34 - Beriom 10
DCM 088 - Em 35 - Untitled
DCM 089 - Em 36 - Rothko Triptych
[] DCM 090 -Phm 11- Sound Prints []
DCM 091 - MPm 11 - Kontact Dance
DCM 092 - Dm 13 - 2nd & 3rd Inv for Dj
DCM 093 - Em 37 - Ober
DCM 094 - Dm 14 - 4th Inv Dj - Dm Sn no. 8
DCM 095 - MSEP 21 - Bela Whispers
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 planned 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.
credits
released August 13, 2014
Luciano Berio For a Fragment of his music and his patience - julian broadhurst - Composition - relisation - Mastering at Isabel.
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