Stare Back - Phase music, Phm 6 - my 46th album. Three related rhythmic evolutions, somewhat in the manner of American Minimalism. A New Definitive Edition for the British Library 2019.
Stare Back 1 – 3 – Rh 205, 210 and 211..
Like the magician brewing broth, I chant the lines, on Drums and such and the stir it well - each time, and let it swirl and then cut moments from a line to torment the swirl - to heat up the ferocity, to a precision of tumbling quite beyond solo human performance - just to probe the immensity. This is what my phase studio was all about - witchcraft.
"Subtle, trance inducing, the movement gives Aural illusions - funky !" Ken Hesketh - British Contemporary Composer and Professor of Composition at the RCM - twitter 17. 11. 2019.
"making the abstract accessible through compelling and engrossing music." Jeb Moore - Young British composer - about my work in general - twitter 7. 11. 2019.
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 or Phm – basically tape looping and timing. Phm by Convention.
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 five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion. Last of the five is Electronic music - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.
Albums number 28 to 58 form my second big publishing project or Group - the 'New Horizon' - built on the foundational 'Blue Cherry' Group - where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest, as Blocks of dedicated albums. Now in a new air I felt free to just reel them of as they came. Exploring like a man with a Time machine - where these five Genres, or Tranches, might lead me.
There is only one Phm album in the 'New Horizon Group' - and this one is it – Phm 6. Phm 7 - ‘Mechanical Clock music 3 – 5,’ is away off yet, as album 68 and Phm, then comes back to the fore, as the start of my ‘Beriom Series,’ - Phm 9 and 10 - albums 82 and 84. All this in the Next Group up – my 'Golden Band Group.'
The DCM album numbers list 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 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.
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released August 6, 2014
Julian Broadhurst - All instruments - Composition, Studio and mastering.
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