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Complex Silence 12

by Dave Seidel

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Gyre II 18:18
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Ylem 12:24

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Originally released in 2011 on the Treetrunk netlabel as part of Phillip Wilkerson's Complex Silence series. Both pieces have been re-rendered (and on one case, somewhat revised) for this reissue using the latest versions of Csound and blue as of October 2017. This is pure computer music, and not improvised.

These pieces employ the technique of binaural beats, so headphones are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Please don't listen to this (or anything else) on crappy laptop speakers.

"Gyre II" is made with nothing but sine waves. Harmonically, it comprises a particular take on La Monte Young's Magic Opening Chord from the Well-Tuned Piano (as explicated in Kyle Gann's essential article "The Outer Edge of Consonance"). It was premiered as a fixed media piece as part of the "Disruptive Stillness" exhibition that took place at Jean Paul Slusser Gallery of the University of Michigan School of Art & Design in Ann Arbor, January 2011.

The concept behind "Ylem" is the emergence of sound from the creative void - starting simply, growing in complexity, and finally returning to the void from whence it came. It consists of many slightly different ways of simultaneously playing a 120 Hz tone, accompanied by 60 Hz drones. Revised for this reissue to give it more time to unfold: originally 8 minutes, now 12 minutes.

Complex Silence 12 was listed as one of C. Reider's favorite free netlabel releases of 2011: www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2011/12/25/my-favorite-free-netlabel-music-of-2011/

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released October 11, 2017

Music composed and produced by Dave Seidel
Artwork by Phillip Wilkerson

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Dave Seidel New Hampshire

Microtonal electronic and electroacoustic music. Long tones (mostly), slow paces (usually), and an emphasis on sonority.

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