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Gradual music

Gradual Music was commissioned by hcmf// for musikFabrik, who gave the premiere at hcmf//, November 2009. The work was performed subsequently at the University of Illinois, USA, as part of the International Sound Exchange, March 2010, and is included on the CD ‘Logical Harmonies’, published by Another Timbre (at66, 2013). The work is part of an on-going research project—documented through the compositions on the CD—investigating the acoustic and psychoacoustic properties revealed through sustained tones, which operate outside of traditional notions of gesture linked to breath or movement, and gradual methodical compositional processes. The work foregrounds an active ‘performed’ listening, emergent surface-level phenomena such as transitory harmonics or combination tones, an awareness of the act of perceiving, and a subjective and malleable approach to temporal experience through the elimination of mnemonic reference points. The research underpinning the composition is presented in the following portfolio items: 1) Glover, R. (2013) ‘Sustained Tones, Sustained Durations’, in Harrison, B., and Glover, R., Overcoming Form: Reflections on immersive listening, University of Huddersfield Press. 2) Glover, R. (2012) ‘Sustained Tones and the Auditory Experience’ in Leonardo Music Journal LMJ(22) pp. 56-7. ISSN 0961-1215. (doi: 10.1162/LMJ_a_00096) 3) Glover, R. (2012) ‘The Experience of Sustained Tone Music’, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM). ISBN 960-99854-1-7 4) Glover, R. (2012) ‘Phenomenology and temporality in the composition of experimental minimal music’, paper presented at Time Theories and Music Conference, 27th-29th April 2012, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.