- chordal
(mp3 format; 43:10 -- 62.2 Mbytes)
Upon my return this past December to Whidbey Island from my penultimate
teaching semester at Columbia, I very much wanted to get back to
making music. The last piece I finished was the droney
retreat_zone
done in some kind of response to the terrible presidential election.
I hadn't done much else through the Fall term
except for various class examples and test
sounds. I also wanted to get back to using the synthesis gear I now
have at our Whidbey home (plus check the hardware to be sure it was
all functioning well).
I had been listening to some of my older pieces, and the good thing is
that I still like them(!). I still enjoyed my intuitively-chosen
chord progressions, even though they're probably mundane and prosaic
by contemporary music-theoretical standards. I decided to build a
piece around a good-ole-style mundane/prosaic chord progression,
using my synths to orchestrate each chord.
I wrote a sequence of eight chords, eventually expanded to nine.
I also decided to use the approach I found in composing
the
Coronavirus Suite,
treating each chord as a separate little (about five minutes) piece to
be stitched back together for a longer composition. I much liked
the outcome of this in the Coronavirus Suite, and I'm also
pretty happy with the results here. And I do love those analog synth
sounds!
Here are the individual chord-pieces, in the order of the chord progression:
-
NOTE: These are all included in the full "chordal" piece, linked above.
Several people wrote asking how they could hear them all together.
The piece above does this.
- chordal1
(mp3 format; 5:34 -- 8.0 Mbytes)
- chordal2
(mp3 format; 4:22 -- 6.3 Mbytes)
- chordal3
(mp3 format; 5:20 -- 7.7 Mbytes)
- chordal4
(mp3 format; 4:44 -- 6.8 Mbytes)
- chordal5
(mp3 format; 4:48 -- 6.9 Mbytes)
- chordal6
(mp3 format; 4:52 -- 7.0 Mbytes)
- chordal7
(mp3 format; 4:46 -- 6.9 Mbytes)
- chordal8
(mp3 format; 5:23 -- 7.7 Mbytes)
- chordal9
(mp3 format; 6:00 -- 8.6 Mbytes)
Brad Garton
January, 2025
