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'Neath the southern moon (2.6mb, 2'47") this is my take on (a part of) 'Neath The Southern Moon by Victor Herbert (1859-1924) with an Indian flavor. for the real thing, listen to Merle Tillotson's 1911 version the triumph of state over religion (2.5mb, 2'46") remembrance of a carnival (2.1mb, 2'18") a distant memory (1.1mb, 1'16") A boy is on a roof. A soft gentle wind is blowing the drying white sheets hanging near him. He is flying a paper airplane that he made. This glimpse of a distant memory is not mine, but it must be someone’s. Caravan (2.1mb, 2'16") A caravan is slowly moving past you. It then disappears into the dusty horizon. musical moment (1.6mb, 1'46") Coexistence in Dreams (5mb, 5'21") Untitled (2mb, 2'00") The Two Fates of the Slime Mould (13mb, 13'35") This piece was inspired by the Dictyostelium, a type of slime mould - a fascinating "creature". When food is available, it is a colony of individual amoebae, moving independently, freely, as they feed and divide. When food becomes scarce, they begin to slowly aggregate into a type of multicellular organism - a slug - thus giving up their autonomy. I tried to reflect this transition from asynchrony and disaggregation to synchrony and coordinated behavior in the music, by gradually acquiring harmonic and rhythmic structure. The slug then falls over and begins to crawl in search of food, behaving as a multicellular organism. If it finds food, it will disaggregate into individual amoebae once again. But if the slug fails to find new food, in an incredible show of cooperation and martyrdom, many of the cells (about 1/5th) sacrifice themselves to form a fruiting body with a stalk supporting a ball of protected spores that can be carried by the wind or an insect to a new location to begin life anew. I tried to express this somewhat chaotic and war-like, but highly coordinated transformation, involving hundreds of thousands of cells followed by an upward motion (the growth of the stalk), balanced by struggle and ultimate death. The formation of the ball is reflected by circularity and structure, but with a constant presence of asynchrony, culminating with the spores carried into the wind. |
Ignacio Cervantes (1847-1905) Illusiones Perdidas (891kb, 0'57") Homenaje (1.5mb, 1'40") No Bailes Mas! (715kb, 0'45") No Llores Mas (1.1mb, 1'13") No Me Toques (667kb, 0'41") La Celosa (737kb, 0'44") |
