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INSCAPE 3 (3:46)
2009
for violin and electronic sounds

Inscape 3 is an arrangement for solo violin and electronic sounds of Inscape 2 (1995) for solo voice and electronic sounds. In both cases the works are a setting of the same poem (Pied Beauty) by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The electronic sounds for both works are the same. The fully notated violin part mostly doubles the electronic sounds, matching as close as possible the precise just intonation of the electronic tones. The electronic sounds are computer-generated sinewaves whose durations and envelopes were determined by extracting the envelope shapes of phonemes and mapping them onto the appropriate sinewave frequencies. These frequencies, as indicated in the score, were derived from a phonetic analysis of the Hopkins text from which specific structural attributes could be translated into a musical structure. The numeric value of the frequency of occurrence for each phoneme has been mapped into an inverse hierarchy of natural number values, corresponding to harmonics in the harmonic series. Further digital signal processing techniques, as varying rates of delay and echo, were subsequently applied to the edited sequence of sinewaves in order to articulate other embedded structural relationships in the original text.

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from At The Margin of The Sensate, released April 15, 2023
David Dunn - violin

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David Dunn New Mexico

David Dunn was born in 1953 in San Diego, CA. From 1970 to 1974 he was assistant to the American composer Harry Partch & remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. He has worked in a wide variety of audio media inclusive of traditional & experimental music, installations for public exhibitions, video & film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, & bioacoustic research. ... more

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